Downloading Patch for the first time.

[Lanora]

Sup guys


I am really really hoping the patcher is broke because I started downloading the patches and it said it would be done in 4+ hours. I thought that was crap because who the hell has time to sit around for 4 hours waiting on a download but I guess a lot of people because even though I kept waiting for the time to drastically drop it didn't budge.

As you can see I really don't have any patience but I managed to wait the 4 hours of hell and then the timer restarts and jumps up to 19+ hours!!!!

Is this for real???

I'm really hopping there is some kind of bug and I can cancel this and start playing the game or something.

So did I just get scammed into paying 39.99 for a game then still have to download all day to play it?

When you have a free game client online you expect to be downloading all day. When you go into a store and buy disk's you expect to only have to download updates. Like 4 hours on slow dsl and 1 hour high end dsl.

This is a very sick joke!!!

[Bulwark007]

Originally Posted by Lanora As you can see I really don't have any patience but I managed to wait the 4 hours of hell and then the timer restarts and jumps up to 19+ hours!!!!

This is a known issue. There are a lot of updates to download. I recommend that once the download is finished, make a back-up of your files so in the event that you ever need to reinstall, you don't have to go through the updates again.

I think there is a system in the works to have smaller future downloads.

[Lanora]

You have to see this!


After getting over the shock of 300+ hour download time remaining when I work up this morning I started thinking this has to be a really cool game. I can't wait to play it.... Like a week from now lol

[Majestic]

You could always try the Sony Station Launcher Here

Whenever a new patch starts i run both of them and pick the one which is going to take the quickest, which most of the time happens to be teh Station Launcher.

Worth a try, looks like you got nothing to lose really.

[Lanora]

I don't know if I'm willing to start the download over again. Ill check it when I get home from work but as long as I have been going it can't take much longer.

After 2 hours it went from 300 hours to 145 hours.

I'm holding out hope that it will be done when I get home.

[ArmEagle]

I'd like to emphasize what Majestic said there;
Use the station launcher: http://launcher.station.sony.com/ . It should be much faster.

[Nebless Clen]

The CD's in the box you bought were printed?/pressed? (what the heck do you call making CD's?) back in Dec or so last year. Since then there has been numerous changes/patches etc... with the latest 1.7 coming out on Thursday.

That said, take the update timer with a grain of salt as it will jump all over the place (down / up / sideways ). You're probably looking at a good day of down loading in the end.

[Bulwark007]

Originally Posted by Lanora You have to see this! After getting over the shock of 300+ hour download time remaining when I work up this morning I started thinking this has to be a really cool game. I can't wait to play it.... Like a week from now lol

Do you know anyone close to you that plays? You can copy the piggs from them which would be about 1200X faster!

[Lanora]

Thanks for all the help guys. The download was done when I got home from work so all is well.

I did go ahead and download the sony launcher for the next patch!

[dabob]

If you monitor the download you will notice when it seems to slow down. Cancel the download at that time and restart it. I did this and cut the entire process (I had to install the game twice for two accounts) to less than 2 hours. Still a lot longer than what it should be but it works.