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A question for those of you who have not participated in the U.S. Beta but have only installed the official WOW retail version:
How large (in MegaBytes) was the first, initial patch that you had to download when you first logged on to the retail servers?
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11-27-2004, 12:41 PM
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~19 Meg. Took me about a half hour, iirc. It took less time this time than it did during open beta. (Yes, I had uninstalled the beta client because at that time I was NOT going to buy the game. Funny how things change. ;) )
Edit: Heh, the easy thing to do is check the directory. It's exactly 19,877 KB in size. :)
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nobbie,Nov 27 2004, 08:19 AM Wrote:A question for those of you who have not participated in the U.S. Beta but have only installed the official WOW retail version:
How large (in MegaBytes) was the first, initial patch that you had to download when you first logged on to the retail servers?
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IIRC it was 20 megs.
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Thanks, I was a bit worried about my 56K modem connection :)
Will there be also standalone patches for WOW from time to time (like in Diablo II/WarCraft III)?
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nobbie,Nov 27 2004, 08:51 AM Wrote:Thanks, I was a bit worried about my 56K modem connection :)
Will there be also standalone patches for WOW from time to time (like in Diablo II/WarCraft III)?
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I doubt it, they seem to want to keep it distributed. But I'm planning on keeping a few of them on my website so that fellow lurkers on slower connections can get them more readily than the downloader. I'm not going to make any of the stuff I put up there full common knowledge but for fellow lurkers who really need it I'll put up links to a few things.
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Gnollguy,Nov 27 2004, 04:10 PM Wrote:I doubt it, they seem to want to keep it distributed. But I'm planning on keeping a few of them on my website so that fellow lurkers on slower connections can get them more readily than the downloader. I'm not going to make any of the stuff I put up there full common knowledge but for fellow lurkers who really need it I'll put up links to a few things.
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Thanks, Gnollguy. I'll get back to you should I need one next year :)
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