(should one come back an hour or a day later?) The pause/unpause trick should not be needed. But again it is a poor clue as to how many patches are left and how long it will take.
I am not sure what to say, I wish the launcher at the very least had a more consistent speed and that the ETA (military term, meaning Estimated Time of Arrival, or how long something would take) would include all patches needed and not just the current one. (turning it on changed nothing either, so I am slightly confused now) So let us be constructive then, how can this be fixed? My first thought was, why is there no "big" installer I could download? (With various download mirrors around the world for improved speed and redundancy.) And later I realized that the SWTOR launcher uses some form of torrent or swarm or peer to peer (P2P) system, but it has peer support turned off in the config file.
If you have not tried SWTOR you might wonder why I am complaining about patch download speed, but if I also tell you that the SWTOR installer is only around 30MB big and that the game launcher then need to fetch over 20GB of "patches" you can image speed is vital. After reading about a little "trick" on the net, I paused and un-paused the patch download (sometimes multiple times), and that suddenly changed the download speed to 4-6MB/s (32mbit-48mbit), at one point it even had a peak at 8.875MB/s (71mbit, maxing my downstream). Unfortunately it was insanely slow, considering I have a 70mbit / 10mbit line there is no reason why the download of patches (via the game launcher) runs at a speed of 300KB/s (about 2.4mbit). I would love to see BioWare do a Post Mortem of SWTOR in the future, but in the meantime maybe this will reflect some of the issues?Ī few days ago in the very same galaxy as you, I downloaded the SWTOR installer. I have 6 out of the 8 characters up to level 11-15 and two at level 1 (at the time of writing this), I have one character per class so I could experience each story "path".
In lieu of 15th of November 2012 (today) when SWTOR goes fully free to play, I have been taking advantage of the old level 1 to 15 trial a few days before that. (However lame they might be, and I see that I need to work on my parenthesis use as well!)
I have also made it a point to not use lazy writing like "I've" and "It's" and "I'll" and "I'd" and the list goes on and on, instead I will use full proper words, gotta strut my writing skills. (sometimes called constructive criticism), and I thank you for wishing me good luck with that.as it is nearly impossible to be fully objective, so if I slip up now and again please forgive me for that. This means I can not give my personal opinion and anything negative must be balanced with a positive. This article aims to be objective, and does not give an opinion of whether the game is worth playing or not. Yes and No! A Review is a non-objective (subjective) look at a game/movie/product and informs you if the reviewer thinks it is worth playing/buying and this will help you the consumer evaluate the product before getting it. "Wait a moment." you might think, is this not what a review is? This is not a review (Gamasutra does not really do reviews), this is a look at what works and does not work in SWTOR.