"Dont select  d964****" ? Then how do you download the file? Im so confused.

Also, my Bittorrent client didnt recognize what I had already downloaded. And the speeds are just as bad.... Really, really weird.

Also, I'm on a 25MBPS connection.

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

I was getting about 6kbs on uTorrent but after opening the port I'm now getting a steady ~800kbs from Australia.

For help on how to open the port check this website http://portforward.com/

using a bittorrent client works better than the SE updater

if you have partially downloaded de file, go to de documents/my games/final fantasy..../downloads/ffxiv-beta/d96437e6/ folder and copy the .torrent file from the metainfo folder and the .patch file from the patch folder to the folder in wich you bittorrent client put its files

In the vuze client i use doubleclicking in the .torrent file in the bittorrent folder make the vuze start the file in the point it was n the SE updater

downloaded the 50% i needed in 2 and a half hours

after you downloaded it, move the finished .patch file back to the ffxiv-beta/patch folder and run the SE updater again

after it check the dowloaded file it need to download a 9.29Mb file and it istall them after that

P.S. if the small file hangs in the patcher (mine did it after 98%) download it with the bittorrent client same way the big file

I've done every single setting, restted my router , reopened the port ect ect ect... still wont connect. So really, wwtf is going on lol.

Originally posted by Dameaus

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

Originally posted by Dameaus

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

Don't forget the "Oh you need to recover your convoluted ID/password? Contact tech support via email and wait several days for it...

I doubt I'll need it, but if I was planning on actually sticking around for release I would be pissed as of the two accounts (had to buy another because surprise surprise, couldn't recover the first one) I can't link either because while I at least have the ID of the 2nd account, I still can't get a password that works with it. ...

FFXI had to go through 3 steps to download a patch. First it would check you system, then it would down load the files, and then it would install the files. The worst part was you would always get a hang up on the second step. SO you would wait to finally be ale to reconnect and once again you had to start at step one with checking your system files.

Not sure how you guys are getting insanely high numbers. I just DL a older movie and was getting around 400KB/s, my torrent goes from 5-60-235kb/s back to 5kb/s

Originally posted by AnimatorKid

FFXI had to go through 3 steps to download a patch. First it would check you system, then it would down load the files, and then it would install the files. The worst part was you would always get a hang up on the second step. SO you would wait to finally be ale to reconnect and once again you had to start at step one with checking your system files.

 

Not sure how you guys are getting insanely high numbers. I just DL a older movie and was getting around 400KB/s, my torrent goes from 5-60-235kb/s back to 5kb/s

same for everyone.... im pretty sure the folks that SAY they got the DL quickly were just in CB and want to make the game sound "good" by making it seem like its our fault we are downloading slowly.... could be wrong though.

Did the uTorrent thing and I'm getting about 0.8kb/s ... which is better than nothing I guess. See you in-game in a year and eight weeks!

But seriously, any other ideas to speed this thing up? Other torrents run fine ...

holy guacamole after 15+ hours my download is done.

Originally posted by PurpleCliff

Did the uTorrent thing and I'm getting about 0.8kb/s ... which is better than nothing I guess. See you in-game in a year and eight weeks!

But seriously, any other ideas to speed this thing up? Other torrents run fine ...

it took me about 30 minute before utorrent started to download at a good speed... even then it varied from 50kbps to 180kbps (my DSL is slow 180kbps is pretty much my max)

took about 2 hours for that 1.3gb file... just let it sit.

Originally posted by Dameaus

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

You got to pick your server on FFXI...

Originally posted by Plutarch

Originally posted by Dameaus

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

You got to pick your server on FFXI...

That wasn't until late in FFXI cycle that you got to pick your server. In the beginning I had to keep creating a character til I landed on a server with other friends. Its also why there was the buddy pass as well.

I finished the download yesterday but today i get an error in japenese; i wanted to see if they had patched anything. Anyone know the proper .exe to launch it? I tried it yesterday and it was fine, today just the error so now i am confused...

Wanted to add i am not trying to get in the game; i know it is not up yet. Just trying to confirm i have of the download since I did it yesterday and was not sure if it was updated today.

Thank you!

Originally posted by tikt4ever

Originally posted by jimbo833

thanks for the info, i downlaoded it, but the patcher wont match up with it and it begins to downlaod it from 1.4% (were it left off)

 

and help?

did you have utorrent download the file to the SAME folder used by the beta patcher?  if not, it only sees the 98.6% incomplete file it was downloading earlier.  you need to right click the torrent in utorrent and select open containing folder, then cut/copy the 4 gb or so .patch file into documents > my games > ... > patch folder used by the beta patcher.  now it should recognize the whole file and you'll be good to go.

If I don't have it in sync, can I just replace the downloaded file from my torrent to the original file in the folder?

I downloaded all the patches available except the big 4.7GB (d9).  It appears my speeds are improving.  Quick question though:  my SquareEnix patcher is failing if I try to open it.  Will that resolve itself once this last patch is done?

Originally posted by AnimatorKid

Originally posted by Plutarch

Originally posted by Dameaus

Originally posted by dougmysticey

So I am not usually one to bitch but REALLY? Square Enix can't cobble together a better downloader than this POS. Amazing. I will not judge the game state based on that but lord it is terrible and yes I understand it is beta. People having to to work arounds to get better results, etc.

I will try later tonight but I am not at all impressed by this. I am hoping they took better care with the development of the game itself.

Retaile release is soon so I hope to god they have a better client interface than this in the works.

they dont... FYI.

people forget that FF11 had about the most ridiculous system for an MMO ever. playonline account or whatever, had to have some crazy long number that you needed EVERY time you reactivated, no server select option so you got stuck on whatever server the game decided, crazy billing cycles, character deletion after only a few months of inactivity.....

SE doesnt seem to have learned much of anything from FF11 from what i can see.

You got to pick your server on FFXI...

That wasn't until late in FFXI cycle that you got to pick your server. In the beginning I had to keep creating a character til I landed on a server with other friends. Its also why there was the buddy pass as well.

Yeah... I think you're right on that one, but I thought it was only like that in the beginning... Like, the first 6 months maybe?

so for everyone who did this utorrent trick, have any of you been able to launch the game and log in perfectly fine?