There’s no hiding it. This post is a whinge, pure and simple. But a just one.
I own Destiny on PS3 and I’ve not played it much at all. I think I’ve got as far as the planet Venus in the campaign. But I remember enjoying it and only stopping playing it due to it being on an outdated system with mounting quantities of DLC with high costs and large, mandatory file sizes. When Destiny 2 was announced as being on PC, however, I got excited, and after watching the gameplay livestream a few days back I decided to set up my PS3 and play through the Destiny 1 campaign to keep me going until launch.
I gave myself ample preparation time. Knowing the notoriety of the PS3 download servers, I decided to download the inevitably huge updates in the few hours before I went to bed for work last night, knowing that I’d be able to play the next day. So I boot it up and I’m met with an 8,600mb update. 1/12. Okay, fine, go ahead. I’ll just browse Twitter while I see how long this takes.
45 minutes and 33% into the first update later, I’m met with an error. Something went wrong. I need to restart the download. Alright, fine, looks like I’m doing some downloading tomorrow. I’ll just get this first, largest update out of the way while I watch tonight’s episode of Doctor Who and shut it down during the second.
Something went wrong.
Fast forward to today. I decide to hook my PS3 up to my monitor rather than my TV so I can switch between inputs to check on the download as I edit a video on my PC. That’s my morning. And so far it’s my afternoon. And the download has failed on four separate occasions along different areas of progress, starting over at the beginning again every. Single. Time. It’s currently at 14%. I live in fear.
I’m a grown man. I’m not about to throw a tantrum because I can’t play the game I want to. But it’s a game I’ve bought, and it’s downloading these huge clumps of DLC which I’m never going to touch. It’s using maybe a tenth of my achievable download speed and it’s starting from scratch every time it fails. This download – only 8,600mb – is beginning to look like an insurmountable barrier between me and an older, outdated version of a game. A game of which I just want to play the parts that I already have downloaded.
32 Bit Brain 