Yesterday I installed World of Warcraft after not having played it for almost 2 years. The game needs to update itself to the current build to be played online. My problem with all of this is that:
I’VE BEEN AT IT FOR 13 FUCKING HOURS!! :mad:
I mean, come on! I’m downloading patches of 700MB, 400MB, and 1.2gigs! What the fuck is in these things?!
And it keeps going! 3 20mb patches in a row!
How much longer is this shit going to take?
At least I can pause it since I have to work tomorrow but geez…
If I remember correctly these patches for WoW require you to exit and restart WoW after each individual patch in the series, so you have to be at least passingly attentive to the computer. (which is of course, dumb)
You actually might be better off uninstalling the game and then downloading the install file from the website. If nothing else, then the process would be automated.
I think the 1.2G was the last one (maybe?). Or perhaps there will be another 50MB after that. I started playing WoW again about a month ago after a year and a half, and went through the same thing. I am fairly sure the 1.2G patch was the last one. Last night there was a new patch released, so that might be more again.
There have been so many changes! Achievements for one - it keeps track of all kinds of things related to all aspects of gameplay and you get “achievement” points and sometimes titles for them. There are new flight points and paths. Guild banks! I don’t recall those from “the old days”. So many other little things - the way pets work. Stormwind Harbor! OMG, I got a shock when I stumbled across that one!
So… even though it’s incredibly frustrating to wait out the patch downloads, you’ll see a lot of changes in the game.
Fallout 3 has been great for our productivity around the house: every time it crashes, hubby decides he may as well go and do something else for a while.
In the last 3 days we’ve cleaned out both wardrobes, sorted out the plasticware/tupperware-type cupboard, sorted out the pots’n’pans area, and have plans to start sorting out the linen cabinet when Fallout 3 inevitably crashes during play tomorrow.
I’d guess that they’re just figuring that people who play WoW don’t really have jobs, or girlfriends, or places they need to be, or a zest for outdoor activities, so making them sit passively in front of the computer for hours on end neglecting even the vanishingly small number of people who are still stubborn enough to continue to love them isn’t so much an inconvenience as it is a preview of the actual game experience.
This might be too late to do you any good at the moment, but you can usually find the patches on Fileplanet. Fileplanet is loathsome but it comes in handy. You can create a free account if you don’t want to subscribe. They usually have wow patches up in a day or so and it’s always much faster than hassling with Blizzard’s torrent updater.
I just had to reinstall everything and the patches all auto-downloaded, one after the other - I didn’t have to restart anything. My husband opened up the ports so there wouldn’t be any throttling problems and the patches were all downloaded and installed in about 45 minutes with almost no help from me.
Sorry you’ve had a horrible time with it, but: 1. I found the process almost painless less than twelve hours ago and b) I kind of like that the game I blow money on every month for the privilege of playing stays fresh and up-to-date.
Funny thing: I knew that this tread would be abouot WoW when I saw it, but thought it woudl be about Northrend crashing every time someone takes Wintergrasp.
First off, check out FileFront next time you do this. It’s usually faster to get it there, unless its patch day (and sometimes even then, if something is chocking your download). Blizzard uses a BitTorrent client, which unlike other forms of downloading, goes faster the more people you have connected at the time.
Secondly, do you have WotLK? If you’re not up to date on the expansions, 2.0 and 3.0 are pretty big, but you can skip updating to them if you have the install discs (hell, might be worth it to borrow them from a friend if you can–you won’t be able to access the content but at least you won’t have to download it). It sounds like this might be part of your problem, because there have not been that many patches since November.
This was the most frustrating thing. My server crashed more than every 30 mins too. It was upwards of 10-15 times in 30 mins. Short disconnects, but still. Really, how did this bug slide through?
And the lag issues in 25Naxx, yeah, not fixed either. I wish Blizzard would stop rushing out with the patches and make some sort of attempt to get it right the first time.
Maybe you should play WoW neutron star. It might improve your social skills so that you can breach the cave. Bag of dicks indeed.
Fucking games and their fucking patches were the reason I moved to console gaming. Now consoles have fucking patches for their fucking games too. Woohoo!
Yeah, that must be it, you shitbag. I couldn’t possibly have been doing other things yesterday. :rolleyes:
Anyway, it finished around an hour after I posted the OP. I’ll activate my account when I get back home so I can only hope there are 1.2 gigs of new shit in there.
I knew it was going to take long but 14 hours? None of the other online games I’ve played took this long. City of Heroes took 45 minutes tops.
