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Anyone who's been playing the game awhile will have patched the game as it's been released and would have ( should have ...) copies tucked away either on a CD or a USB stick

Anyone starting from scratch has, as of the 4.25 release 7 patches to install ranging in size from 1.8 MB up to 17.6 MB for a total of 52 MB.

A consolidation patch that would upgrade the game in one go would be somewhere around 41 MB

For anyone with high speed internet access the difference between a 52mb DL and a 41mb DL is trivial which leaves the only reason for complaining about this that it requires you open 7 files instead of one.

Despite the assertion that "it's now 2010 and download bandwidth is measured in Mb/s pretty much everywhere" This is NOT true everywhere. There are lot's of people who still rely on dialup service and I'm one of them and for me 46.6 kbps is as good as it gets and file transfers are more typically 36.5 kbps making a 40 MB upload a three + hour chore.

I know I am not alone in still having dialup and I have no intention of forcing everyone to DL a 40+MB file when the actual patch might only be a couple of MB just because a tiny handful of people with high speed access may find it inconvenient to have to open more than one patch when they are first setting up the game



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