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Add a pre-patch download feature

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Krinaman
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Seriously, if you are going to have 30 gig patches you really need to allow us to start downloading before the patch goes live. Not all of us have super fast download speeds. There are going to be people who can't play for days waiting for the download to finish.
  • Krinaman
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    Over a day later, still downloading....
  • Snapdragyn
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    Two days to download.

    And now I can't log in - back to the fricking eternal loading BS.
  • Iago
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    ill add myself to the still downloading list
    That which we obtain to cheap we esteem to lightly, it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

    -Thomas Pain

  • Iago
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    ill add myself to the still downloading list
    That which we obtain to cheap we esteem to lightly, it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

    -Thomas Pain

  • fromtesonlineb16_ESO
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    Krinaman wrote: »
    Seriously, if you are going to have 30 gig patches you really need to allow us to start downloading before the patch goes live. Not all of us have super fast download speeds. There are going to be people who can't play for days waiting for the download to finish.
    The patch I got was around 5GB, you managed to download an entire client it seems.
    Edited by fromtesonlineb16_ESO on August 6, 2014 6:19AM
  • Iago
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    fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »
    Krinaman wrote: »
    Seriously, if you are going to have 30 gig patches you really need to allow us to start downloading before the patch goes live. Not all of us have super fast download speeds. There are going to be people who can't play for days waiting for the download to finish.
    The patch I got was around 2.5GB, you managed to download an entire client it seems.

    my patch size was 26 gigabytes and all I did was click Update.
    That which we obtain to cheap we esteem to lightly, it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

    -Thomas Pain

  • Induron
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    Iago wrote: »
    fromtesonlineb16_ESO wrote: »
    Krinaman wrote: »
    Seriously, if you are going to have 30 gig patches you really need to allow us to start downloading before the patch goes live. Not all of us have super fast download speeds. There are going to be people who can't play for days waiting for the download to finish.
    The patch I got was around 2.5GB, you managed to download an entire client it seems.

    my patch size was 26 gigabytes and all I did was click Update.

    +1
    There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

    William Shakespeare
  • Darlantan
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    about 5 Go... if you download more then the patch something is not correct with your game folder or client...
    We are One >:)
  • Krinaman
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    I really don't know what is going on. I've heard from numerous guildies that the patch was 26gig while others said less. Some had to use a repair button, others didn't. I had a 5gig install after the 26gig file so who knows.

    All I know is I came home to a repair button and have spent 2 days patching and not playing. But on the bright side it was finished this morning. Of course the servers were down so I still can't play and then I will need to patch again....
  • KBKB
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    Add a stable game feature first please!
  • Korozenn
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    No. Gods, no.

    SEGA implemented that once for Phantasy Star Online 2 and it completely wiped everyone's harddrive who went about with executing the pre-patch, and it's something that has happened previously in other Online RPGs and MMOs as well that use such services due to the nature of how those patches are stored. Judging by the way that the client for Elder Scrolls Online was already reported as wiping the harddrives of some users out there upon trying to (un)install the game, Divines knows what could happen if such a thing were implemented. The ESO Client reminds me way too much of the issues and qualms I took with the one for PSO2, as in it's very unstable.

    The patch for v1.3.3 was 5-6.5 GB, depending on your language settings.

    Upon starting the boot client, the client checks through all of your existing files and replaces them with the new ones after downloading the latest patch, which are those 26 GBs+ your guild mates were talking about seeing, @Krinaman‌ . When it's done applying those new files, the client is 'supposed' to get rid of the old ones automatically (though it doesn't happen in everyone's cases, which is why you should always keep a close eye on HDD space before and after applying a patch).

    I remember that @NewBlacksmurf‌ reported deleting his old files and they ran upwards to 80 GBs of stored space on their harddrive. That's an example of the client not properly deleting old files with every new patch for a user (though I can say for sure that hasn't happened in my case, so it's not the same for everyone).
    Edited by Korozenn on August 6, 2014 3:50PM
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