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ctceo
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join:2001-04-26
South Bend, IN
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| World of Warcraft Updater
If you are a comcast customer having difficulty updating or are encountering errors (corrupt files) after updating your World of Warcraft MMO, You must disable all P2P ports, and download the update at 16kb/s from only the HTTP and/or FTP server provided directly by Blizzard. It may take a while to download that 350+mb patch, but it will not corrupt files embedded in the .mpq during the process.
Sorry about your luck but if you have comcast you may want to consider another broadband provider to avoid these issues altogether.
LOL:
They should have added a section to their TOS that states:
During the process of attempting to "manage" our internet connections you may experience difficulty or corrupt files in updating your favorite MMO games that utilize direct p2p technology for faster updating times, and may have to resort to using a ~160kbps connection to update your game correctly. | |
jobias
join:2006-01-18
Knoxville, TN
| Greetings WoW player:
Despite the fact that we make millions of dollars each month, we're too cheap to properly host an update file. Instead we rely on you, the paying customer, to front your own bandwidth in order to distribute our required monthly updates to our paying customers in a timely fashion. Without you, where would we be? O, that's right, a few hundred thousand dollars less rich. Thank you paying customer, for degrading the service of everyone on your node on patch day, just so we can earn a extra few pennies from each of you.
Signed,
Blizzard
I seem to remember playing other MMO's that had patches that you could download from a variety of locations, each hosted on commercial grade servers. At high speeds. Via Http or FTP. Blizzard's updater isn't some sort of awe inspiring great new tool. It is just a way to lower their cost per player per patch. While I support that kind of tool for indie developers that really can't afford to distribute everything themselves, I think blizzard might... just might be rolling in enough dough to start paying for (more of) the patch bandwidth themselves, instead of relying on a tool that leaches upload bandwidth from everyone that plays (I know, you can turn it off. But it's there by default, and the masses... they don't know) | |
NbWY1
join:2003-05-23
Columbia, MD | I have such a love/hate relationship with Blizzard.. to me that downloader is just icing on the cake. | |
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