Did the uTorrent thing and I'm getting about 0.8kb/s ... which is better than nothing I guess. See you in-game in a year and eight weeks!
But seriously, any other ideas to speed this thing up? Other torrents run fine ...
it took me about 30 minute before utorrent started to download at a good speed... even then it varied from 50kbps to 180kbps (my DSL is slow 180kbps is pretty much my max)
took about 2 hours for that 1.3gb file... just let it sit.
So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.
I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.
Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.
they dont... FYI.
people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....
SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.
You got to pick your server on FFXI...
"He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth." -Goethe
So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.
I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.
Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.
they dont... FYI.
people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....
SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.
You got to pick your server on FFXI...
That wasn't until late in FFXI cycle that you got to pick your server. In the beginning I had to keep creating a character til I landed on a server with other friends. Its also why there was the buddy pass as well.
I finished the download yesterday but today i get an error in japenese; i wanted to see if they had patched anything. Anyone know the proper .exe to launch it? I tried it yesterday and it was fine, today just the error so now i am confused...
Wanted to add i am not trying to get in the game; i know it is not up yet. Just trying to confirm i have of the download since I did it yesterday and was not sure if it was updated today.
Thank you!
"Because we all know the miracle patch fairy shows up the night before release and sprinkles magic dust on the server to make it allllll better." parrotpholk
thanks for the info, i downlaoded it, but the patcher wont match up with it and it begins to downlaod it from 1.4% (were it left off)
and help?
did you have utorrent download the file to the SAME folder used by the beta patcher? if not, it only sees the 98.6% incomplete file it was downloading earlier. you need to right click the torrent in utorrent and select open containing folder, then cut/copy the 4 gb or so .patch file into documents > my games > ... > patch folder used by the beta patcher. now it should recognize the whole file and you'll be good to go.
If I don't have it in sync, can I just replace the downloaded file from my torrent to the original file in the folder?
I downloaded all the patches available except the big 4.7GB (d9). It appears my speeds are improving. Quick question though: my SquareEnix patcher is failing if I try to open it. Will that resolve itself once this last patch is done?
Serious death penalties makes every close call an adrenaline rush, and every minor achievement a major victory. This alternative rule-set should be in all MMORPGs.
So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.
I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.
Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.
they dont... FYI.
people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....
SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.
You got to pick your server on FFXI...
That wasn't until late in FFXI cycle that you got to pick your server. In the beginning I had to keep creating a character til I landed on a server with other friends. Its also why there was the buddy pass as well.
Yeah... I think you're right on that one, but I thought it was only like that in the beginning... Like, the first 6 months maybe?
"He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth." -Goethe
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holy guacamole after 15+ hours my download is done.
it took me about 30 minute before utorrent started to download at a good speed... even then it varied from 50kbps to 180kbps (my DSL is slow 180kbps is pretty much my max)
took about 2 hours for that 1.3gb file... just let it sit.
You got to pick your server on FFXI...
"He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth." -Goethe
That wasn't until late in FFXI cycle that you got to pick your server. In the beginning I had to keep creating a character til I landed on a server with other friends. Its also why there was the buddy pass as well.
I finished the download yesterday but today i get an error in japenese; i wanted to see if they had patched anything. Anyone know the proper .exe to launch it? I tried it yesterday and it was fine, today just the error so now i am confused...
Wanted to add i am not trying to get in the game; i know it is not up yet. Just trying to confirm i have of the download since I did it yesterday and was not sure if it was updated today.
Thank you!
"Because we all know the miracle patch fairy shows up the night before release and sprinkles magic dust on the server to make it allllll better." parrotpholk
If I don't have it in sync, can I just replace the downloaded file from my torrent to the original file in the folder?
I downloaded all the patches available except the big 4.7GB (d9). It appears my speeds are improving. Quick question though: my SquareEnix patcher is failing if I try to open it. Will that resolve itself once this last patch is done?
Serious death penalties makes every close call an adrenaline rush, and every minor achievement a major victory. This alternative rule-set should be in all MMORPGs.
Yeah... I think you're right on that one, but I thought it was only like that in the beginning... Like, the first 6 months maybe?
"He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth." -Goethe
so for everyone who did this utorrent trick, have any of you been able to launch the game and log in perfectly fine?