nazgull2k1ub17_ESO wrote: »

New comp etc etc blah blah..

Why is it successful games like WoW, EQ2, etc have download and play options.. and ESO, despite being years newer, is forcing me to download almost 100GB before I can even ATTEMPT to login.

This is NUTS. Seriously. Its call compression software, P2P downloads.. friggen snail mail me a god damn DVD with the files on it.. I dont care, I FINALLY finished the massive 80GB download, which took 2 days at 10 hours a day on my craptastic 750kb/s dwn speed. ... yay! I can play! ..

Nope. Sorry, download another 8GB just for *** giggles!

Guess it's gonna be yet ANOTHER day.

I forgot its like 1997 with 56kbs modems and AOL Online CD's piling up in the corner. For a split second, I thought it was 2017..

you don't download over 90 gigs. But what happens is equally stupid (if you love your storage device) The game first downloads the data, then copies it as it is downloading so you have two copies on the device. That is why for a roughly 46 gig download you need over 80 gigs on the drive available. Wow is downloaded straight into the install folder and streams relevant data so once you have the basic resources you can play as you install it past that point.

[snip] It's on here until i decide to get morrowind or pass on it. If I don't get the prepurchase items I will never pay for it and will play on private server or not at all. Meaning I will uninstall and sell my toons if people are still buying them for eso. I will not prepurchase it unless they say they are at least halving their sustain nukes, or withdrawing them and focusing on more individual changes to items and buffs but that requires people with actual talent to be accomplished. I almost wish columbus nova would buy out zyngamax and clean them out like they did with soe. If you think their downloader is bad, you missed out on all of the mistakes since beta and launch. It's nothing but joke after joke with these guys. As if the project is one big troll.

They honestly can't do much right, and the rare times they do they undo it with things like the sustain nerfs coming to both ruin the new expansion day 1 with monotonous morrowind-themed horrid combat and their lack of an auction house wasting most if not all of your first morrowind day(s) running around looking for replacement gear that you won't find and taking 3 minutes to kill groups of mobs that should only have taken about half minute to a minute most to have been killed. have fun boys.

Meanwhile, I will be having fun in Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood coming shortly after on June 20th
you get free Meeseeks to avoid the bag management drool-inducing nightmares of eso
You can use ksills from a variety of classes and... ACTUALLY USE THEM BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE TP AND MP

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/stormblood/

You know games named morrowind have awful combat. Don't learn that lesson twice. Go with a winner, A Realm Reborn.
The slogan for morrowind is: work brings freedom
The slogan for Stormblood will be: it's a bold new world


I'll see you little hotpockets in Ivalice

P.S. Frak you blizzard enough 'heroic' brawls already somebody needs to knock blizzard out for the week
too bad they always do it at the wrong times

[edited for tos violation]