Quote Originally Posted by mad cat mech
i have dsl it wont take long for me to download it.

the problem to me is a person has a computer(not as cheap as a box of donuts) spent 50 bucks for an incomplete game, cant afford dsl or cable and people ranting on them.

thats a bunch of garbage, not everyone has the funds to spend spend on their gaming experience. 650 megabyte patch isnt that big because of editor such and such. its a major rewrite because they fumbled the ball.and now people with dial up will have to spend valuable time babysitting their connection moving the mouse every so often all day long just to get it downloaded.maybe they should get payed for all that time they have to babysit their computer.

sega should send out a copy of the patch on cd. its the least they should do in my arrogant opinion.

furthermore i think they should pull the game from the shelves and come out with an updated post 1.2 version so people wont have to go through what we have. it would really be a major pain to go buy the game, come home install it, jump on net and download the latest update. i bet those peoples jaws will drop when they see the size of it.

but at least they are going to fix the game. i think they should send out a copy of the patch to everyone who bought the game and registered so you can have it on hand to keep with the game whenever you have to install it on another computer.
Whoa, that's kinda drastic. CA'd have to track down every person who got the game before mailing em', if that's what you meant...they'd lose lots of dollars. Although if they did that it would be a powerful display of customer support

What CA could do in the future is not to pull off its current unpatched version and instead release a patched one in the future, like Windows XP with SP2...although this could mean those sneaky people could up prices. They can also sell a CD containing only the patch for a few dollars for those without the internet capability to download. While I have broadband it can take me hours sometimes to download giant patches because I live in Asia and the proximity slows downloading...unless a local game webby hosts the file.

And besides, this large patch is just a prelude of more big patches to come, since 1.2 doesn't fix everything and since 1.2 could also bring about a whole slew of new bugs.

Ah well, I guess while downloading the patch I could revisit RTW for a while...