Comments on: One-Click Update

By: Valentin

Valentin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:18:41 +0000

I bet there couldn’t be better timing to read this post than while installing WoW from scratch. I already lost count to how many patches it has already installed. It’s downloading another one right now…

By: Bel Amar

Bel Amar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:19:37 +0000

Auto update is evil for those on capped broadband plans. Large uncompressed games updating themselves even if you don’t play them anymore, soon leads to no bandwidth left…

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:31:26 +0000

Yeah, that’s probably it Z.

In my case I went from plain old Angmar to having to update all the way to whatever incremental update Moria already had.

It was quite painful.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:40:25 +0000

Sounds like my third paragraph: the kind of thing you can let update overnight, but not something you can play NOW.

I have not had problems with it, but I have not had a lengthy update because I have not had multiple months without logging in since I bought the expansion pack.

By: Moondog548

Moondog548 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:48:19 +0000

Hm. Ok.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:40:13 +0000

Tasha is right, I ran into the same problem when I went back to try it. Incremental updates. And troublesome to boot.

By: Moondog548

Moondog548 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:26:26 +0000

LotRO? It’s zero-click updating…. like any other MMO I’ve seen.

???

By: Tasha

Tasha — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:25:53 +0000

LotRO. The updating and installation of that game was enough to put me off.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:23:18 +0000

Totally agreed, Company of Heroes is one of the worst offenders in this regard.

By: mbp

mbp — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:31:19 +0000

Steam has spoiled us all with its silent behind the scenes updating. I run Xfire and it claims to have an option to automatically download game patches but even though I have this option enabled it has never as far as I can tell downloaded anything.

A recent awful example of updating: Earlier this year I bought the Opposing Fronts add on to Company of Heroes. I was not surprised when the game told me I must update my older Company of Heroes install but I was shocked to realise that this meant several painful hours of incremental downloads as patch xxx.001 was replaced by xxx.002 and so on all the way to the latest version.