Dialup: It's Craptastic!

I remember a day, long since past, where I would've committed felonies to get the 33k I eke out today. This is no longer the case.

One of the worst things about playing MMORPG's (That's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games... Read this old post of mine if you still have no clue what the hell I'm referring to) is that if you leave for a while, you return to patches. Patches are fun little bits of code they have you download to repair problems in the program. ("Patches" fix "Holes" in the code, you see. Get it? Ha ha!)

Most programs have patches. The problem with an MMORPG is that if you don't have the patches, the game will not work. Everyone has to have the same code, after all, or it will be somewhat screwy. And the games change often. Very often. Statistic balances, race balances, class balances, new items, new monsters, bug fixes, exploit fixes, new features… When something changes, they patch it. The longer you don’t play, the more patches you have to download before you can play again. Downloading seventy six megs of patches on a line that does 33.3 is something that is NOT GOOD.

It took me four hours to download the first thirty one meg patch. When I found out there was a thirty five meg patch behind it... Yeah, there was swearing.

Whining done. Rock on, kids.