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mxmissile · Dec 25, 2014

Huge question here... this might finish in a week... ever heard of auto scaling CDN or torrent? it's 2014, not 1984!

Extremely disappointed, oh well no one's fault but my own for not doing my homework looking into fail lazy software publishers more closely...

Moses · Dec 25, 2014

Holds the Door open for ya

Roybe · Dec 25, 2014

Sorry to hear you are having problems installing, or updating. I suggest some patience and you will be in the game soon, however, I always need stuff...what stuff you got?

Kitiara · Dec 25, 2014

Or, you could sort out your own internet connection and join everybody else that downloaded the game just fine.

Of course, it's much easier just to toss abuse at a software company that isn't at fault. If you had done your research, you'de realise that the downloads are from amazon's servers. Which do not have a bandwidth issue by any stretch of the imagination.

WoOpin · Dec 25, 2014

Kitiara said:
Or, you could sort out your own internet connection and join everybody else that downloaded the game just fine.

Of course, it's much easier just to toss abuse at a software company that isn't at fault. If you had done your research, you'de realise that the downloads are from amazon's servers. Which do not have a bandwidth issue by any stretch of the imagination.

It is the patch server and routing that is the issue. The download is slow for me too not that I care 1st time in years I have downloaded anything under 10mb/s I normally peek on places like steam at 60 to 97 megabytes or 780ish megabits depending on time of day. I am fortunate enough to be on one of the UK's main international hubs.

Hope this post is more helpful for the OP than the poster above.

mxmissile · Dec 25, 2014

Kitiara said:
Or, you could sort out your own internet connection and join everybody else that downloaded the game just fine.

Of course, it's much easier just to toss abuse at a software company that isn't at fault. If you had done your research, you'de realise that the downloads are from amazon's servers. Which do not have a bandwidth issue by any stretch of the imagination.

Just checked my connection, getting 93Mbps on an ubuntu torrent (stopped it of course). So yea, must be my connection... huge lol.

Abusing them? How is just paying $60 then not seeing the product for a week and making a statement about it abuse? I'd say me as the *customer* is the abused one in this case.

Yachats · Dec 25, 2014

I haven't had much of a problem downloading but I do notice the speed swings wildly. I think this is because it synchronizes every file individually. The throughput would be much better if it was all one big package for an initial install and then synchronize after being installed. The launcher should know you need the whole package.

The very slow speeds I see is when it is downloading a lot of small files in a row. The overhead to download each file is the same so those look like they are transferring slower.

Once the game is installed, updates are much faster.

noodle · Dec 25, 2014

mxmissile said:
Just checked my connection, getting 93Mbps on an ubuntu torrent (stopped it of course). So yea, must be my connection... huge lol.

Abusing them? How is just paying $60 then not seeing the product for a week and making a statement about it abuse? I'd say me as the *customer* is the abused one in this case.

I think the "abuse" comes in when you start blaming the developer without considering the entire internet ecosystem that lies between you and them, rather than discussing it like an adult and trying to work out what the problem actually is. Just a thought

mxmissile · Dec 25, 2014

WoOpin said:
It is the patch server and routing that is the issue. The download is slow for me too not that I care 1st time in years I have downloaded anything under 10mb/s I normally peek on places like steam at 60 to 97 megabytes or 780ish megabits depending on time of day. I am fortunate enough to be on one of the UK's main international hubs.

Hope this post is more helpful for the OP than the poster above.

Thanks, I'm downloading from a CloudFront server in California. And they even direct peer with my provider, it must be a round-robin thing I'm thinking, and I got unlucky and got connected to a 386SX vm that just cant keep up lol.

Kalearne · Dec 25, 2014

mxmissile said:
Huge question here...

this might finish in a week... ever heard of auto scaling CDN or torrent? it's 2014, not 1984!

Extremely disappointed, oh well no one's fault but my own for not doing my homework looking into fail lazy software publishers more closely...

Since you seem to be quite up on your networking here's ny suggestion;

1. Locate IP of update server.
2. Tracert from your machine. Note problem nodes.
3. Repeat, analyse for patterns.
4. WHOIS problem node.
5. Complain to the problem.

Honestly surprised that you believe your good connection to one location is proof that FD is the whole problem.

Merry Christmas and all the best

mxmissile · Dec 25, 2014

WoOpin said:
It is the patch server and routing that is the issue. The download is slow for me too not that I care 1st time in years I have downloaded anything under 10mb/s I normally peek on places like steam at 60 to 97 megabytes or 780ish megabits depending on time of day. I am fortunate enough to be on one of the UK's main international hubs.

Hope this post is more helpful for the OP than the poster above.