So we now get daily 5+GB downloads?

[The Macchio]

Yesterday I had to download over 5GB of patches (which completed "successfully"). And now today we get ANOTHER 5.3GB patch? This is ridiculous and hardly worth keeping in my library. I guess I look forward to tomorrow's 5GB patch.

This is worse than Dungeon Defenders...

[Sentinel 08295]

downloading at 8.1 MB/s - 6 mins 26 secs remaining..... what is everyone constantly complaining about?

[ein]

For every one of us angry there are twenty of us scratching our heads and reinstalling Path of Exile.

[Sentinel 08295]

Escrito originalmente por einexile:

For every one of us angry there are twenty of us scratching our heads and reinstalling Path of Exile.

Hell no. I had my brief infatuation with PoE. MH is way better on itemization. PoE is actually more like D3 with the lack of upgrades you can get from playing. Meanwhile if you play MH for even 15 mins, you will make progress and get an upgrade.

[ein]

Escrito originalmente por jpnole:

Escrito originalmente por einexile:

For every one of us angry there are twenty of us scratching our heads and reinstalling Path of Exile.

Hell no. I had my brief infatuation with PoE. MH is way better on itemization. PoE is actually more like D3 with the lack of upgrades you can get from playing. Meanwhile if you play MH for even 15 mins, you will make progress and get an upgrade.

This is true, and it's probably why I sunk dozens of hours into MH in June. I don't mind getting items from other players or vendors, though. Treasure as a reward for combat makes for a nice mile marker, but it's sort of poisonous too in that it wires the player's brain to think of fun in terms of rewards. Especially when the main benefit of those rewards is to make the game easier.

A lot of people will tell you that's the bread & butter of an RPG, but the game should be fun to play without it. The mistake both D3 and PoE made was to cross their arms and insist on this, when so many players have years of their lives invested in the poisonous way of doing something, and largely because of Diablo 2.

[Donoghu]

Escrito originalmente por jpnole:

downloading at 8.1 MB/s - 6 mins 26 secs remaining..... what is everyone constantly complaining about?

Well, downloading at approximativaly 560KB/s and got approximativaly 3h45 of patching just for this game. That's what people complain about. There's also the bill for some of us, at the end of the month. Yeah, the unlimited bandwidth is not available everywhere or can cost 2x-6x more than what some are currently paying elsewhere. (And they don't make more money either). The optic fiber rare services around where I live cost around 250$-300$ per month while the average salary is around 12$/hour (18$/hour if you work in the industrial field).

Sure, 5Gb is not the end of the world... but when you look at the 20Gb-30Gb of total bandwidth you had at the end of the month on your monthly report/bill from your IP and you know that 5Gb-10Gb comes from one single game... which is not the full game but just some patch/update to fix problems. Hell, I got some new games that actually take less space, look a lot better in every aspects and are actually not patch, but full games. Where's the logic?

[The Macchio]

donoghu makes valid points.

Also, I roll my eyes everytime someone brags about how fast they are downloading and arrogantly acting like "What's the big deal with 5GB+ patches". When they're entire post is just to show off.

[PeteJohn5000]

at this rate we're looking at 150GB of patches a month. No thanks.

[Zimmm]

Escrito originalmente por petebot5000:

at this rate we're looking at 150GB of patches a month. No thanks.

ikr like wtf, gaz was worse choice of company make this wish they just jump ship and give it to new company i don't care if they have work on it for 2years at lease be alot better when its released, god id take Perfect world, even crappy Nexon USA take this game they probably do WAY BETTER JOB

PS. Sadly I'm Canadian my internet is capped i don't have big bucks to make unlimited why 16gigs is big deal until my internet resets im almost end of my rope this month, not like this only thing im downloading

[PAW.Predator]

Escrito originalmente por Bird_the_Word:

I put my update to not auto update because im not going download another 5gigs, really tempted to uninstall at this point

same here
dont think will play it soon after update-rollback-update

[Talomose]

Escrito originalmente por einexile:

This is true, and it's probably why I sunk dozens of hours into MH in June. I don't mind getting items from other players or vendors, though. Treasure as a reward for combat makes for a nice mile marker, but it's sort of poisonous too in that it wires the player's brain to think of fun in terms of rewards. Especially when the main benefit of those rewards is to make the game easier.

A lot of people will tell you that's the bread & butter of an RPG, but the game should be fun to play without it. The mistake both D3 and PoE made was to cross their arms and insist on this, when so many players have years of their lives invested in the poisonous way of doing something, and largely because of Diablo 2.

Unfortunately, I think MH went a little too far in the other direction compared to them.

[Natty La Ridge]

Escrito originalmente por jpnole:

Look at me! Look at me! I've got a big fat pipe! Fast fast faaaaast!

We've got Steam's own Carlos Danger, here.

FTR: 1.5MB/S effective D/L rate from Steam means about 45 minutes to patch this sucker, 3 times this week. Flashing back to Dungeon Defenders...

[The Macchio]

Escrito originalmente por santaDog78:

Escrito originalmente por jpnole:

Look at me! Look at me! I've got a big fat pipe! Fast fast faaaaast!

We've got Steam's own Carlos Danger, here.

FTR: 1.5MB/S effective D/L rate from Steam means about 45 minutes to patch this sucker, 3 times this week. Flashing back to Dungeon Defenders...

lol. That is a funny reference.

Totally Dungeon Defenders but even worse IMO. I Though DD was terrible with it's daily 350MB patches for weeks, but 5GB takes the cake.

[Gielnik]

The game runs on UE. UE is well known for it's huge patches and that's just the engine's problem. Gazillion couldn't do anything about it even if they were omniscient.
By the way, stop looking for an excuse to uninstall and just do it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Escrito originalmente por The Macchio:

This is worse than Dungeon Defenders...

DD always had content behind their patches. Usually for free.