How true, how true...

[Lissa]

I can't believe you bought into that. You should know that the people upset are those most likely to talk about something. I spoke with at least 3 other people on patch day who had similar situations to mine ... started, went to 83% for a bit, got some connection info, then finished quickly.

Yes, it has some problems. No, it's not nearly on the level that some people make it out to be. Remember when the downloader first start and people went nuts? Everyone who disabled it still kept lagging -> it was our server sucking, not the downloader. 1.11 was the smoothest patch day I ever had. That's not coincidental.

Yet is wasn't the smoothest for the vast majority of Blizzard users Quark. Between 1.10 and 1.11, they changed something in the downloader. A lot of people started getting "you are behind a firewall" messages that they weren't getting prior to 1.11 (and this was occuring with the background downloader as well).

While the background downloader wasn't causing the lag issues, something did change in it that made patching to 1.11 the most horrible experience of patching to date (and I've seen all their patch methods from Beta phase 3 on).

And the fact that Penny Arcade nailed Blizzard with the last comment, "yeah, we don't pay a dime," is the real truth in that comic. All other MMORPGs out there do a single massive server download, usually hosted by the server the person is playing on so as to spread out the traffic and reduce general latency for all users. Blizzard is the only MMORPG runner that uses a busted version of BitTorrent to download the patches. With the other MMORPGs I've played, Blizzard wins in the game play department, but in the patching department, they come in dead last.