Dear S-E: Fuck you
Apr. 20th, 2005 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserYou're telling me you cannot come up with a better way of dealing with version updates? I changed my lunchtime at work so I could come home and start it... but of course it timed out and it wanted me to click buttons to make it try again. (Why? YOUR servers timed out a process I started, so WHY do you think that I might not want to have it try again? If it times out, why not have it just start the damned process again on its own? Why do you FORCE people to sit at their damned computers to try to make this happen?)
I got home three hours ago. Three fucking hours. And I'm still sitting here.
It takes many tries to get the version to check. 95% of the time that times out so it STARTS OVER FROM THE BEGINNING. On the very rare occasion the version check actually finishes, the download times out 98% of the time... which requires you to start at the beginning, with the version check.
You are honestly and seriously telling me that you could not come up with a better system than this?
Well yay, now the whole POL window is frozen. I'm going to have to X out of it, then the damned thing will cheerfully tell me to use the correct process for logging out, otherwise data could be lost.
S-E, why does it seem like everything you do is intended to make me hate this game? Guess what. You're succeeding.
Edit: Four hours of sitting here, trying and getting no where. Why is it that the one single time it got through the version check in the last hour, it failed the second it tried to start downloading, and had to start at the BEGINNING? It just checked the version a second ago, nothing changed other than the connection timing out...
I swear, the programmers/server admin/planners should be beaten. This could be handled so much better. More servers through the US and JP, some of the files downloaded days ago, but most importantly: WHEN THE PROCESS TIMES OUT, RESTART ON ITS OWN.
And no, typing in all caps is not making me feel any better at all. :(
Edit2: Yay. Five hour mark. Hitting "retry" over and over and over. Almost 9 PM. What a damned waste of the night this is. (But on the plus side, at least I didn't have to figure out anything to do online tonight! Bah...)
Edit3: Going on six hours. Six fucking hours. I have never, ever experienced a wait on updates this bad. And in the last two hours, how much progress have I made? I've only reached the download screen twice. Twice. "FFXI: When an in-game grind isn't enough!"
I got home three hours ago. Three fucking hours. And I'm still sitting here.
It takes many tries to get the version to check. 95% of the time that times out so it STARTS OVER FROM THE BEGINNING. On the very rare occasion the version check actually finishes, the download times out 98% of the time... which requires you to start at the beginning, with the version check.
You are honestly and seriously telling me that you could not come up with a better system than this?
Well yay, now the whole POL window is frozen. I'm going to have to X out of it, then the damned thing will cheerfully tell me to use the correct process for logging out, otherwise data could be lost.
S-E, why does it seem like everything you do is intended to make me hate this game? Guess what. You're succeeding.
Edit: Four hours of sitting here, trying and getting no where. Why is it that the one single time it got through the version check in the last hour, it failed the second it tried to start downloading, and had to start at the BEGINNING? It just checked the version a second ago, nothing changed other than the connection timing out...
I swear, the programmers/server admin/planners should be beaten. This could be handled so much better. More servers through the US and JP, some of the files downloaded days ago, but most importantly: WHEN THE PROCESS TIMES OUT, RESTART ON ITS OWN.
And no, typing in all caps is not making me feel any better at all. :(
Edit2: Yay. Five hour mark. Hitting "retry" over and over and over. Almost 9 PM. What a damned waste of the night this is. (But on the plus side, at least I didn't have to figure out anything to do online tonight! Bah...)
Edit3: Going on six hours. Six fucking hours. I have never, ever experienced a wait on updates this bad. And in the last two hours, how much progress have I made? I've only reached the download screen twice. Twice. "FFXI: When an in-game grind isn't enough!"
