Downloading the ENTIRE GAME again?

[Arbrelax]

<p>I logged on today using the new patcher or launcher or whatever this thing is called and it is loading 14 Gigs of something?</p><p>Why is the entire game reloading for an update and expansion or is the new Age of Discovery expansion actually 14 gigs in size?</p><p>I had pre-ordered the expansion so started the launcher around 9am PST since it appeared that the patchers might be up even if servers were not.</p><p>Is this huge download necessary and if not how do I just "update" and get the new expansion only. </p><p>At time of this post it is 3900MB of 14Gig or 28% done.</p>

[Jrral]

<p>Discussed in more threads than I care to recall. Most common problems:</p><ol><li>You manually installed LP4 and didn't install it into your game directory. If you install it anywhere else, it'll create a new game installation wherever you installed it (just like the original launcher and LP3 would).</li><li>You had the streaming client before and are installing the full-download version. In that case there's no way to avoid the re-download, the full-download client can't use the assetcache data from the streaming client.</li></ol>

[Arbrelax]

<p>So . . . in other words . . . who ever designed these launchers and patchers didn't have the skill to make them seamless in their updating of each other so when they force us to switch to one or the other it doesn't have the ability to either detect your former method of just logging on (such as programming them so when you try to use the one they don't want you to use it automatically switches you over to the new one) to play the game you are paying those people to design and maintain and thus causes me to have to sit and wait for all this unnecessary downloading to end while clogging my and their bandwidth and systems with the aforementioned unnecessary data transfer . . .</p><p>Brilliant!</p><p>P.S. I am sure there are numerous threads discussing "common problems" and I'm just an ignorant  "user" but still . . . very sloppy.</p><p>P.S.S. Why do they try to do several things at once - new mandatory patcher/launcher with an expansion which can only exponentially increase the odds of a Fu Bar situation?</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Arbrelax wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>So . . . in other words . . . who ever designed these launchers and patchers didn't have the skill to make them seamless in their updating of each other so when they force us to switch to one or the other it doesn't have the ability to either detect your former method of just logging on (such as programming them so when you try to use the one they don't want you to use it automatically switches you over to the new one) to play the game you are paying those people to design and maintain and thus causes me to have to sit and wait for all this unnecessary downloading to end while clogging my and their bandwidth and systems with the aforementioned unnecessary data transfer . . .</p><p>Brilliant!</p><p>P.S. I am sure there are numerous threads discussing "common problems" and I'm just an ignorant  "user" but still . . . very sloppy.</p><p>P.S.S. Why do they try to do several things at once - new mandatory patcher/launcher with an expansion which can only exponentially increase the odds of a Fu Bar situation?</p></blockquote><p>The people who designed the Launcher assumed you would know where your files are.  Because that is, in fact, your responsibility.  If you chose to install it (yes, chose, because you are presented an option) to a separate folder then it will redownload the game. </p><p>It's not brilliant, its exceedingly simple.  This does not present any Connection Support issue so I am locking this up.</p>