Patch 2.1 Update size

[Jarre]

The patch is ready for downloading IU am currently in the middle of downloading it, still unsure when servers will come online, doubt anytime tonight UK time.

The size of the patch is 3017.68MB basically just over 3GB so expect it to take at least an hour, even with my 6mb down its running at 1.1mb/s. and estimated a 62minute download time.

full details of patch here FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone | Patch 2.1 Notes (12/14/2013)

[Takelli]

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I guess I should start downloading it now once I get home. Since I might not be able to play for a while then

[DakAttack]

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20 minute download woop woop 'murica

[Etra]

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2 minute download woop woop South Korea, controller of all 8 internet dimensions.

[Malacite]

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3 gig update, yikes X.x

[ItazuraNhomango]

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Almost big enough of an update to keep the "not enough endgame content" people from whining for 3 days.

... OK, maybe 3 hours.

[Takelli]

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It was only about 40 minutes for me. I was expecting it to be like XI where it would take hours for only a few gigs.

[Malacite]

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That's because XIV works by p2p, unlike POL which was a piece of trash.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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That's because XIV works by p2p, unlike POL which was a piece of trash.

Where did you come across references to how the FFXIV client updates the game? I would be interested in reading about it.

[DakAttack]

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2 minute download woop woop South Korea, controller of all 8 internet dimensions.

What are you doing all the way over there?

[Etra]

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What are you doing all the way over there?

Oh. I was just being an asshole. Sorry. ._.

[Malacite]

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Where did you come across references to how the FFXIV client updates the game? I would be interested in reading about it.

Since the very first beta lol... and I mean the original beta, not ARR's

[ItazuraNhomango]

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That's because XIV works by p2p, unlike POL which was a piece of trash.

Since the very first beta lol... and I mean the original beta, not ARR's

I took a brief look at the network connections while FFXIV was updating, and it looked like it was getting all its incoming data from a single TCP connection. I didn't check to verify it's a connection to SE, but that doesn't look like a P2P/swarm download. (Not to mention that I had little to no outgoing data to speak of during that time.)

If you mean Pay-to-Play instead, I apologize for misunderstanding.

[Malacite]

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No I meant peer to peer.

It works just like bit torrent. That's why it can resume an update from where it stopped if you close the client, unlike POL which had to do it from the beginning every time (Oh lord, all those times I'd have the update 100% and then it failed...)

[ItazuraNhomango]

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No I meant peer to peer.

It works just like bit torrent. That's why it can resume an update from where it stopped if you close the client, unlike POL which had to do it from the beginning every time (Oh lord, all those times I'd have the update 100% and then it failed...)

OK, I'm convinced now you're dreaming these stuff up.

I have very lousy Net connection at home; after getting through the first GB or so, FFXIV update kept dying at ~2000 MB left.

That's right, after downloading a few hundred MB, restarting client and it'd be back to ~2000 MB left again. The update code is just as stupid as POL's.

As far as I can tell, update consists of multiple large files, and if it dies during downloading of any single file, it'd just stop. Once restarted, it'd begin at byte 0 of that file it died on earlier.