7DollarHagane
Banned
I decided to re-download FH3 on PC, since I had deleted it long ago to save some space.
It's been 3 and a half hours, and Forza Horizon 3 is at 6.13 gb on the windows store download.
I've done some looking and there doesn't appear to be any workaround for this, they simply serve downloads at unreasonably slow speeds for the large filesizes of the games they're selling.
I don't have the fastest connection in the world, but i get 4mb/sec on steam. That means on steam I could have pulled 50gb during the time I pulled 6.13 from the windows store.
That means windows is serving downloads at less than 1mb/sec. These are 10+ year ago broadband speeds.
The fact that this was their big initiative for 2016 of "play anywhere" and expanding their platform, it's really quite shameful how little effort they put into the PC end of things.
I don't feel wrong to complain because I paid $60 day one for the digital copy of this game and it's going to take 30 hours to download if the download doesn't suddenly decide to pause and never start again, or restart itself, or whatever the fuck it does.
I paid $100 for the digital version of Gears of War 4 and that game is almost 3 times the size of Forza 3 to download now. Gears 3 is going to take almost 3 full days of non stop downloading to install.
I feel like this is a thing that microsoft isn't getting called out for enough and they deserve to be getting their noses rubbed in the shit over it constantly.
It's been 3 and a half hours, and Forza Horizon 3 is at 6.13 gb on the windows store download.
I've done some looking and there doesn't appear to be any workaround for this, they simply serve downloads at unreasonably slow speeds for the large filesizes of the games they're selling.
I don't have the fastest connection in the world, but i get 4mb/sec on steam. That means on steam I could have pulled 50gb during the time I pulled 6.13 from the windows store.
That means windows is serving downloads at less than 1mb/sec. These are 10+ year ago broadband speeds.
The fact that this was their big initiative for 2016 of "play anywhere" and expanding their platform, it's really quite shameful how little effort they put into the PC end of things.
I don't feel wrong to complain because I paid $60 day one for the digital copy of this game and it's going to take 30 hours to download if the download doesn't suddenly decide to pause and never start again, or restart itself, or whatever the fuck it does.
I paid $100 for the digital version of Gears of War 4 and that game is almost 3 times the size of Forza 3 to download now. Gears 3 is going to take almost 3 full days of non stop downloading to install.
I feel like this is a thing that microsoft isn't getting called out for enough and they deserve to be getting their noses rubbed in the shit over it constantly.
