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Saturday, April 7, 2012

MoP Downloader

Well.  Thanks to a mix of slow internet (2 Mb/s max) and a super buggy beta launcher, I am yet to actually log in to the Mists of Pandaria beta.
The first night I started downloading and went to bed.  When I woke up it was at about 3% - it crashed shortly after I went to bed.
The next five or so times I went to reset it, it would get stuck at Initializing or Synching files or something like that.  I had to end a ghost process, delete the battle.net folder in ProgramData, and restart my computer in different combinations before it finally got going again.
Shortly after, it crashed again and I had to go through the same thing as above.
Today, it was at roughly 55%, so I decided to try logging in, seeing as you can play past about 10% and it downloads files in the background.  After sitting on the 'retrieving characters' screen for about the ten minutes, the character creation screen finally popped up...and as soon as I clicked 'create new character' I got a critical error.
After doing the stuff above for about 10 more minutes, it finally started again.  But this time, it started at 55% while in the setup stage (aka not able to play while background downloading), with optimal (playable) at about 85%.

tl;dr, extremely buggy launcher.  2/10 would not bang.
I should be able to - knock on wood - play and give some initial thoughts by tomorrow.

4 comments:

  1. that's too bad, the expansion looks really cool!

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  2. Your lucky your internets that fast, buggy launchers suck! Why couldn't they just compress it?

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    1. Thats megabits not bytes : \
      The max I can ever get from downloading is 170KB/s, and that's if I'm the only person on the network and have nothing else running

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  3. Yep... sounds like a major WoW cornerstone. I remember when i still played constantly refreshing the join queue so i could play the game i had purchased months before on release night. Talk about a mistake. Ended up being too slow and too crowded to get anything done anyways.

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