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They take over 5 hours on cable. :D (on pc anyway)

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None of the updates ever took me 5 hours, and I have cable. The most was about an hour and a half I think.

And tarakan, it's cool that youre getting the game, let either me, DarkMaster, Hero2, or Ominub know when youll get it so you can get on the server we're on.

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I just installed the game on a laptop last night so It was a combination of updates not one by one.

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We sold that PS2 package at Toys R Us. No hard drive, just the network adapter. The Network adapter does say HDD on it but it is not the hard drive.

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It was supposed to be a joke, but apparently a couple people didnt like it, giving me - reps.

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i dont have the game so never tried. but unless they goofed something and we're talking about updates? it shouldnt take that long.

PC games almost never install update after update. because much of the time the stuff from all the other updates is in the latest update. and would usually over ride anyway. so NORMALLY, its not needed to install every update. only the last one.

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Yea crono said hes never spent 5 hours D/L ing an update because hes gotten the smaller ones as they came out but if you install FFXI on a pc now the accumlitive updates take 5 hours to update since they change the look of the game for the differnt seasons. And they added some new EQ and such.

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then they really goofed up and arent sure how to do PC games because it should only be the last update you need, MAYBE the last couple.

most of that stuff copies over the previous, like changing the look each season? well why would you have to download the look of one just to copy over it with the look of another?
PC updates dont work like that.

do they MAKE you download each one or do you get to pick?

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for the first 4 or 5 months that the game was out they had an update like every month. They recenly had a big update were they added LOTS of new quests and items and such. One update had like 5-10 pages of new content added.

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Square's crazy way of doing FFXI updates from the beginning (ie: fresh install of game) is why it takes 5 hours. I've seen it first hand and dont understand it but meh.

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Idiot :rolleyes: it takes like 2-3 hours max. Seth(Ace195) must have one slow ass labtop.

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I have the Ps2 version and 56k, and I had about 3-4 hours of downloads total. But the Ps2 version came out with many of the PC updates already installed on it. Not to mention there has been a couple times where PC players had to download updates that Ps2ers didn't have to.