Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
why did you release such big patch ?
WhiteTigre
✭✭✭
Was it really neccassry to release such a big patch ? of about 20 GB ?
Surely you guys could have done it in smaller incremements. This patch is going to take me days to download and then its going to cost me extra on ISP account.
Surely you guys could have done it in smaller incremements. This patch is going to take me days to download and then its going to cost me extra on ISP account.
1
-
Menelaos✭✭✭✭Did ZOS not want to implement a new launcher that handed out only sort of the altered files and thus smaller download packages? Or something like that? Sorry, IT moron here... ;-)...und Gallileo dreht sich doch!
0 -
Paulington✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭People always find something to complain about!
What? If other games like WoW/GW/etc can do patches right, why can't ZOS? 20-30GB for a patch is unreal, that's almost the size of the game itself! It's been shown time and time again that ZOS are incapable of patching properly.
Most if not all games patch by just cutting and snipping code where it's required to make the necessary changes which means patches are very small. ZOS seems to not do that and instead seemingly just replaces whole files and forces you to download totally unnecessary stuff that you already have on your PC.
Take the PTS for example, it took me over 120GB of download to get that working, about three times I had to fully download and restart the patch due to various patch manifest errors that are no fault of my own and twice the launcher downloaded the entire bloody game when the whole game is sat in a folder right next to it.
ZOS have a terrible patching system and if they want this game to succeed they have to sort it out. This effectively prohibits people with data capped or slow connections from playing the game at all.3 -
Wow/GW2 have never released a patch as big as this. It's changing the core combat mechanics for christ sake. Some people just whine about everything i swear.By Hircine's hand i mark thee!5 -
Pmarsico9✭✭✭✭My download completed in 12 hours and 30 minutes.
The issue isn't patches. The issue is that this game's download mechanism is absolute garbage.
I may not login until the other patches are pushed fixing the 8,000,000 bugs that came live with the game. Because I'm sure those patches will take at least 6 hours each and I'm sure the bugs are game breaking.1 -
Gix✭✭✭✭
If you pay close attention to the launcher (not that I'd recommend it), you'll realize that most of the download is taking roughly 20% (if not 10%) of your progress bar; the rest is your computer treating the files locally which goes faster.WhiteTigre wrote: »I have started downloading at 16h36
its now16h44
it has not reached 1% yet
Don't let that low % discourage you.0 -
Knootewoot✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I download at 15-16 MB per seconds. No problem here. Gonna take a dump and then play.
٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
"I am a nightblade. Blending the disciplines of the stealthy agent and subtle wizard, I move unseen and undetected, foil locks and traps, and teleport to safety when threatened, or strike like a viper from ambush. The College of Illusion hides me and fuddles or pacifies my opponents. The College of Mysticism detects my object, reflects and dispels enemy spells, and makes good my escape. The key to a nightblade's success is avoidance, by spell or by stealth; with these skills, all things are possible."4 -
WhiteTigre✭✭✭I am still on 0% after starting at 16h36 and its now 17h12 its going to take me days too download plus I will have to buy more bandwidth so I can play.
I appreciate you trying to uplift my spirit0 -
WhiteTigre✭✭✭I am so glad you can download so fast but for me to afford that type of line is going to cost me a fortune0
-
Knootewoot✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Costs me 65 euro a month. But that is including phone, tv and the fastest connection they have. For tv only the standard channels else its 15 euro extra.٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
"I am a nightblade. Blending the disciplines of the stealthy agent and subtle wizard, I move unseen and undetected, foil locks and traps, and teleport to safety when threatened, or strike like a viper from ambush. The College of Illusion hides me and fuddles or pacifies my opponents. The College of Mysticism detects my object, reflects and dispels enemy spells, and makes good my escape. The key to a nightblade's success is avoidance, by spell or by stealth; with these skills, all things are possible."0 -
WhiteTigre✭✭✭65 Euro multiply that by 18 and that's what I would pay in Rands
Almost Zimbabawe
Go further South0 -
gard✭✭✭✭✭I had the client open and happened to be watching when the download started. Initial download was 13GB. After it finished, the system patched for about 20 minutes and then downloaded another 3GB.
So when they say a patch is 25GB I think they are talking in terms of uncompressed files. Although 2:1 compression (even lossless) is still pretty crappy.
0 -
damtotb16_ESO✭✭✭Bloodystab wrote: »I got mine in less then 1h - Where do You people live? In Zimbabwue?
That was last year, just moved to Tanzania
3 -
Animal_Mother✭✭✭✭WhiteTigre wrote: »Was it really neccassry to release such a big patch ? of about 20 GB ?
Surely you guys could have done it in smaller incremements. This patch is going to take me days to download and then its going to cost me extra on ISP account.
ZOS doesn't do anything small, cause bigger is better.1 -
Gix✭✭✭✭
I heard internet speed is a common issue with people living in the US. I wouldn't know for sure, I live in Canada. The patch IS a monster, though; took me roughly 3h download.Bloodystab wrote: »I got mine in less then 1h - Where do You people live? In Zimbabwue?0 -
josh5813✭✭✭3 hours into it I'm now into "applying patch" phase and just got to 9%. I might be able to play some today
0 -
josh5813✭✭✭WhiteTigre wrote: »65 Euro multiply that by 18 and that's what I would pay in Rands
Almost Zimbabawe
Go further South
The overhauled a lot of the game and what not. Hints* why the patch is so big.0 -
Pmarsico9✭✭✭✭Bloodystab wrote: »I got mine in less then 1h - Where do You people live? In Zimbabwue?
New York FIOS. There's something wrong with their patcher.0 -
Ocelo✭✭15 hours and is at 6%, I'll start playing again when they release 1.7
Speed 40-30 KB/s, yay...Edited by Ocelo on March 4, 2015 5:21PMA solo player that doesn't mind some help.
---- Ocelo - Khajiit Templar - V14
- Eats-Many-Flies- Argonian Nightblade - Lvl 11
- Janah Alghurab - Redguard Sorcerer - Lvl 4
- Urok gro-Gargush - Orsimer Dragonkknight - Lvl 3
- Ulfgard Arm-Crusher - Nord Templar - Mule
0 -
Menelaos✭✭✭✭
Which is an interesting answer to my question, thank you. And pretty helpful, I should add.
I shall answer thus: Sir, if I could, I sure would.
...und Gallileo dreht sich doch!
0 -
Observant✭✭✭✭Silly city folk preaching "Buy better internet"
10MBPS is the best rural internet around here and that costs me about 129.99+HST here in Ontario.
So narrow minded, these forum posters are.Vehemence2 -
Horrum✭✭✭Bloodystab wrote: »I got mine in less then 1h - Where do You people live? In Zimbabwue?
LOL Just south of it actually xD0 -
josh5813✭✭✭Scratch that my computer just crashed and now I have to start from the very beginning again with the verifying stage and onword. Guess I won't be playing again today and will be leaving my computer on when I go to bed. Might be able to play tomorrow >:(0
-
josh5813✭✭✭Scratch that again having to restart for a 3rd time do to the Unable To Unzip error. Might be able to play again next week.Edited by josh5813 on March 4, 2015 5:17PM0
-
I feel bad for people with crappy ISPs. Seriously, I do.
Here in 'merica I pay a monthly fee for unlimited use and a 15MBps download speed (that's 120Mbps). I did not have problems. I also wouldn't suggest ZOS limit content updates if hypothetically I did have a crappy ISP. Smaller increments? That would just be a PITA for most of us I think.0
