Patchers and you!

Lets see, got in from work with the old gamer thoughts “Ok ill just install, patch and jam for a couple of hours, see how I get on.”

Now the key word there is PATCH. You always forget how much patching is required for your favourite games and EQ2 is no exception. The sheer amount of updates that SOE has provided since the games release is staggering, expansion packs, content updates, bug fixes. All of which now need to be downloaded to my machine.

I look at the “estimated” time remaining….. 6 hours 32 minutes. Guess I WONT be getting back into the game then. Not that this has put me off, I just left the patcher going while I slept, should have really checked it when I got up but ah well, fingers crossed.

Love them or hate them, Patchers are a staple ingredient for MMOs. I, personally, love them. No longer do I need to go searching websites for patches for my game, when the patcher simply does it for me. Some patchers are better than others. WoWs downloader sucks in my opinion, very buggy. EQ2 and LOTRO on the other hand are simply great.

SO what did I do with my night then? Well apart from watching Youtube. My wife and I intended to get some of her quests done in the Lone Lands on LOTRO, after spending an hour searching for Undead and The Burrowing things near Ost Guruth for the Noisome Neighbours quest. Unfortunately everybody was trying to do this quest… so we gave up.

Tuesday is CSI night for my wife so she logged off to watch leaving me with nothing to do but watch the patcher download files. Luckily im leaving work early to go play Hockey, so I should be home earlier to fire EQ2 up and give it a whirl. More to come!

 P.S Most of this is written from work where I dont have access to my screenshots or anything so if I happen to get any ill add them later!