hey_it's_that_dog said:
Wasn't defending the system completely. It obviously could be improved. But there are small things one can do to prevent the apparently massive rage-strokes that these updates cause. Turn on your system more often, for instance. I thought it was clear, but I wasn't suggesting that during your designated game time you start the updates and then run errands. I was suggesting that, if this small inconvenience brings you to tears and causes you to lash out at others on a message board, perhaps you could think ahead and download the updates while you shower, or prepare a meal, or any of the things you do while you're not at work and not playing games. You don't have time to check the PS blog for 5 seconds during your workday or any other time? I don't believe you.
You had time to write that post, after all.
Others have already addressed a few of your points (thread moved quickly I suppose) but I want to add my thoughts.
You offer a few somewhat logical suggestions. However, they're logical only to you, really, because what you consider "small things" doesn't necessarily fit within the schedules of those with full-time jobs, a fiancee to contend with, a wedding to plan for, an hour+ commute each way each day, etc.
Like turning the system on more often. By the time I get home, I'm exhausted. The last thing I generally feel like doing is going downstairs and turning on a system just to make sure I'm up to date with its updates. To that end, if I'm going downstairs, I'm going downstairs to play a game to unwind after a long day. Not to just stare at an update status bar. So your suggestion isn't exactly a solution.
Or thinking ahead and planning an update period while I'm making dinner? Surely you realize how completely insane that sounds. You're suggesting that I'd have to block in time for a system update. That I should go downstairs, turn the system on and start the process, then go back upstairs to make dinner while the system updates. Do you realize that suggestion doesn't really address the core issue of a substandard update process? I shouldn't have to block in time for system updates.
Further, if spending a half hour or so making a decent meal is the kind of timeframe I'd need so I don't actually see the update inching along...that reflects extremely poorly upon the update process itself, and really does not end up being a decent solution.
Or blocking time out for the system to update while I'm in the shower? Sorry, but the minute I start doing that is when I know my priorities are completely screwed up. I get up at 6:30 in the morning. I'm not about to run down to the basement to make sure the PS3 is fully updated before I start my morning routine.
As for your question about my time at work...no. I don't have 5 seconds to spend glancing at the PS blog. You seem to assume that my workday has some sort of downtime. It doesn't. And realistically, most real jobs don't have much downtime. So go ahead and don't believe me if you want. You'll come to understand exactly what I and others are talking about once you start a real full-time job and start having way more responsibilities than you do now.
And you'll be surprised. It sneaks up on you really, really quickly. No more than 3 years ago I had completely open weekends. There were a few months where my Friday nights had me going to a local bar with friends, drinking like crazy, coming back around 7 am, sleeping, til 2, then getting ready to go back out again around 5ish. When I wasn't doing that, I was having other friends over for some good ole retro gaming.
That all changed extremely fast. Now my Fridays have me getting home around 7 or 8 pm. I never see my friends because we're all super-busy and/or tired. My Saturdays usually involve the fiancee and I waking up around 8 or 9, running errands, then taking care of whatever we had to do that day.
When you're young, you have all the time in the world. And to that end, you think everyone else has all the time in the world.
Not the case at all.
So when you see me posting at 2 am, I'm very often collapsed on the living room couch and in no mood to do anything but wind down online. Further, when you see me posting at 6 pm, it's because I'm finally able to get a breather since everybody else left at 5 and the phones finally stopped ringing. But at that point I get to play catch up on ticket updates, and database updates, virtualization maintenance, etc. You know, the stuff I wanted to get done throughout the day but couldn't because such-and-such needed help with their VPN client, or someone else needed their phone extension to be reconfigured. Or we had a client coming in who needed to be briefed on how we operate. Or...you get the idea.
Basic gist of all of this is:
Working adults don't have a lot of time or patience for stupid delays that shouldn't happen in the first place, because we deal with plenty stupid delays as it is.
We're hardly part of the ADD generation--well, okay I'm technically part of it since I do have a mild ADHD thing going on, but when it all comes down to it...we just don't want our time wasted by things that shouldn't be wasting our time.
The clumsily slow PS3 update process is one such thing that wastes our time when it shouldn't be wasting our time.
