4.2 gigs plus is not a patch/ is a re download

[Anim]

At least it lets me DL at 30 Mpbs.

Meh, got a solid 75, patched in a few minutes and fired up the game ... to find no changes and removed content :P

[Technodude]

Meh, got a solid 75, patched in a few minutes and fired up the game ... to find no changes and removed content :P

It is a mystery isn't it? what the hell is in 4 gb?

Downloaded new expansion for swtor last week, one whole new planet and loads of new content and total size was 2 gb.

[Dradiin]

There are multiple ways to handle patching, this is one of them.

Lotro used compressed mega files with the ability to patch individual stuff in them along with lots of small files, like a combined stuff. Due to all the versioning performance may drop over time and/or stability issues may arise. Community made a defragger for it, if you don't want to re-download all the 15+Gbyte stuff (16-18 maybe).

Guild Wars 2 uses a big-big data file and the patcher tampers with the files in it. (Their launcher was replaced shortly after launch.)
Planetside 2 uses lots of files (main assets are 'zipped' and split into several pack files). (Launcher may fail, and you have to re-verify/fix stuff with the built in tool.
Cryptic games patcher is mostly ok.
Several of these games use pando media booster, torrent and other solutions for better distribution. (Or simple file servers, but
they proved to be inadequate when demand is high.)

Hopefully, this will also get some love in the future.

As I finished the last sentence, the patcher finished, but half of the launcher went invisible.

(21st century and still on slow connections with limits? Ok, I know that this is the sad reality, but always amuses me. My net is only a 15mbps dsl, nothing special, but definitely better than the 384kbs I had in... 2003? Whats the issue with improving services? Distance? Corporate lazyness? No need for it? Wired connections are simply not possible?)

I live in Barrow Alaska, one of the richest regions in the world, 384kbs is awesome internet for this area. Infrastructure and state/federal funding is what allows telecoms to implement high speed upgrades.

Sure where I live the entire community is flush with, massive oil profits. But that does not make the telecoms want to pay the millions it takes to wire the hundreds of extreme rural areas. So while I make a very nice living here n Barrow, I have to accept myinternet is crap and will stay crap for a long time.

[Dagbiker]

Perhaps this whole patch thing is a commentary about what Defiance means. Where Humans, and less Human looking Aliens fight ugly Aliens that are ugly and no one can empathize with because they are ugly.

Perhaps this is the reason they are doing this to us, perhaps this is a commentary about working together for a common goal, to get a good game. Like the end of Independence day when the Americans single handedly uploaded a Virus using a macs WiFi, made in dos, and the rest of the world did stuff too.

We, PC gamers, and you people, Console gamers. Needed a common enemy to hate, needed a reason to unite, and needed a reason to be friends. And Trion has given us this reason.