I bought Blue Toad Murder Files Episode 1 over PSN because it is only $1 this week only to find that the goddamn thing needs a 346MB update.... that is basically the size of the full game. I mean why in the holy mother of ass do people think these kind of things are okay?

A. Not everybody has a massive hard drive to store this kind of shit
B. NOBODY likes to sit there for 10-15 minutes waiting for the damn thing to update.

Which brings me to my next point... why in the fuck can't you do other stuff while the update is downloading (y'know... like when the actual game was downloading). That would be so conveniet (kinda like the ability to download things in a low power state... oh wait, the PS3 doesn't do that either).

Sorry for the rant, but this kinda shit really pisses me off, & I was kinda wondering what other people's take on stuff like this is.

while i love some of the exclusives, things like that are why the console itself annoys me at times, that and the fact it (unlike my wii and xbox 360) hates my internet, i tried patching uncharted 2 today cos i rented it, it would start no problem but it always stalled at various points, i gave up after managing patch 1 of 9 (20MB) and patch 2 was 118, and god forbid i want to actually try loading the PS store

Yeah, it's garbage. Apparently many games just need to be replaced with the new version when they're updated. It's like, if I want to play a game I don't play often, the experience is pretty much ruined by such an update.

I know right? I basically said screw it after it updated. I wanted to play it just to test it out, but I kinda stopped caring after the update was through because I had sit there for close to 20 minutes waiting for it to update... talk about a buzzkill

I thought you were going to say you have a small bandwith cap, which is another reason this kind of thing sucks. I know Metro 2033 on Steam forces a 2GB update after the disc installation and people with small bandwith caps were FUMING about that on the Steam forums the week it came out.

Well I have "2 MBPS" broadband.... Of course I put that it quotation marks because it is more like 2 MB Per Every 6 Seconds. So that is certainly part of the problem.

I vaguely remember Bioware saying something like it's hard to patch their games on the 360 because they can't modify the exe or they can't make the exe too big or something like that. As such they have to do clever workarounds rather than direct "problem, be gone" solutions. Well, maybe there's something like that with PSN too, so rather than simply modifying game files they simply essentially re-release an altered version of it.

It doesn't really make sense to me, and this is like a feeling based on a vague memory of something Bioware said, but I can't see how any kind of patch could be that size unless they were somehow forced to add a load of crap in with the patch for some weird reason or another.

You do know that your broadband speed is measured in "megabits per second", not "megabytes per second", don't you?

I used the wrong term actually, I meant a cap on how many GBs you can use a month. In some countries that is common, so a surprise 2GB forced download after installing from a disc is a massive issue.