Do I need to reinstall?

Issues, Workarounds & Localization General Issues
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I play 2-3 times each week. But everytime I start the client it starts and completes a 160Mb+ download. Any fix to this? Or are there 2-4 updates to the client each week?

Thanks for any help!

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The client downloads that 160+ MB “update” almost every single day. And yes, it’s rather annoying…

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And you can’t get an answer out of anyone as to what it’s for…

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Even if it downloaded that only half the days of the month, that is 2.5 GB of “updates” for which there is absolutely no documentation…

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Feefoo

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That has nothing to do with “playing online” or with unused files or anything on our computers. This is a new behavior and CCP just refuses to tell in the patch notes what they are downloading.

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I never heard of reinstalling actually helped anyone.

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Over the course of a year, that is 28 GB worth of “updates”, almost as large as the entire game installation, which is utterly ridiculous…

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lollypop

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We’ve asked many times, both on this forum and on Reddit, with no reply whatsoever…

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You’d think it would be fairly easy to answer. What, exactly, has to be updated almost every single day, and with such a specific amount of data? It is exactly 162.3 MB almost every time.

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Huh. It’s probably the original game from 2003, underpinning every daily change and feature addition since.

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You sure it is a dowload or a regular upload to see what you been upto?

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I don’t know if it is my broadband or my physical location in the world, but I seem to be done on these in mere seconds. Black Desert updates every Wednesday for 4 hours server downtime and take a lot longer to process. The only reason I point out Black Desert is the obvious relation to this game. Eve Online is only down for 10 to 15 minutes each day ( not even 2 hours total for the week ) which I assume is the better method.

If I were to look at this as house cleaning, it is more prudent to clean up each day than once a week. You have more mess and it takes longer. The only other way I could see this improved upon, would be, closing off one room at a time for cleaning and moving to the next. This would require no downtime at all, just certain rooms would be unavailable for a minute or two per day/week.

Have fun!