MGS autodownload

[skiny]

So is this what this update was all about? I never uninstalled this software and had played pretty much every game at some point but last time I played every single game updated itself when I tried to play it. I asked 32Red what this update was for and they told me nobody was updating anything.

[KasinoKing]

A definite yes from me- although the benefit is MG's now take up so much space I've culled and uninstalled all but the 3 I regulalry play.

That shouldn't be the problem it once was; about 2-years ago (?) MG changed their download system so that once you download all the games for one casino, you don't have to download then for any subsequent MG casinos.

Though having said that, I'm not sure if all the casinos use just one version of the games, or if the new casino just copies it across rather than re-downloading. The latter would mean they still each need vast chunks of your hard-drive.

Maybe VWM knows...?

KK

[LinkinFart]

System is setup in a way that once you download all the games to your HDD all casinos use same files and only thing newly installed casino does is to check which games are already downloaded and up-to-date with latest patches.

Every casino keeps this record in their install folder while games data files are installed in "Documents and settings...." folderS.

Real problem, not for me but for lot of people, is that even if you uninstall every MGS casino client from your computer game data files are left on your HDD and are taking up space, and those files are the ones that make 98%+ of install size, for no real purpose, specially since they update games so often that most of the old leftover files are worthless when new client is installed after few days.

From time it takes to update games and to download them from scratch I am assuming that most of the time they are not changing big files like symbol graphics, but smaller ones such as buttons and who knows what else. I never really bothered with what are all those files for.

One more thing that bothers me about their installation is that they use a really unreasonable number of really small files which take more space on HDD than their real data size is.

[vinylweatherman]

So is this what this update was all about? I never uninstalled this software and had played pretty much every game at some point but last time I played every single game updated itself when I tried to play it. I asked 32Red what this update was for and they told me nobody was updating anything.

Shame on you 32Red - I didn't expect YOU to lie about this.

It is OBVIOUS that these games are updating, else it wouldn't say so when you launch them.

By denying that anything is updating, when it is obvious to anybody that MGS IS updating itself, and frequently, makes players wonder WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE?

There are so many theories that the RTP on the games is being turned down, and because this is something we know will NEVER be admitted, we might suspect that this is the REAL reason for all these updates, and also why there is this policy of "corporate denial" when a player asks what the updates are for.

Surely there are "release notes" for every update, just as there are SECRET release notes published by RTG for operators (they carelessly left a few available to "mine" from their website - how do you think we found out about the 3 RTP settings ).

The only thing we have been TOLD is that 4 new games have been added, but NOTHING about a huge chunk of old games being updated.

It also seems that each client does it's own update, rather than using the files downloaded by the first client to be updated. EVERY one of my casinos has taken about 1 hour to update, not just the first one. This means EVERY casino is replacing the files, even though this should not be necessary once one client has downloaded them and placed them in the common store.

It looks like their programers have screwed up again, and this is going to cost the casinos players as they respond to the onerous task of updating by culling the number of casinos they have installed.

[felicie]

Realize I'm in wrong country here but are you all saying the updating of each game as you play it is something unusual or new? I can't remember a time when it didn't update but at least it is fast compared to rtg that takes 2 or 3 minutes every fricken time and I have a fairly new machine and good connection. interesting to compare how things work and look from country to country. thanks

[gloria460]

Realize I'm in wrong country here but are you all saying the updating of each game as you play it is something unusual or new? I can't remember a time when it didn't update but at least it is fast compared to rtg that takes 2 or 3 minutes every fricken time and I have a fairly new machine and good connection. interesting to compare how things work and look from country to country. thanks

We don't have to worry about this as we haven't gotten any new games since they rolled out this watered down version of mgs.

[Mirvel]

if i would keep on playing MG....
I would agree 100%.
i am the player let me decide what/when i wanna load a game.
its really anoying w/e they do while you are playing stuttering reels etc....

[LinkinFart]

Shame on you 32Red - I didn't expect YOU to lie about this.

+1

This means EVERY casino is replacing the files,

I think that every client only goes through verification process for every single game once its installed.
Unless their skilled software engineers "fixed" that one too in last update.

[vinylweatherman]

+1


I think that every client only goes through verification process for every single game once its installed.
Unless their skilled software engineers "fixed" that one too in last update.

That's what it is SUPPOSED to do, but it does NOT take 1 hour and around 100 Mbyte just to "verify" the game files.

I have also spotted the update bar run on several of the existing games, even though only NEW games are supposed to be updating.

Further, why did the MGS clients need to "verify" everything a DOZEN times over in October and November?

I say it was doing no such thing, and that these were a dozen UPDATES, and all but one was for EXISTING games.

As someone said, "don't piss on our heads, and tell us it's raining"

ADMIT the clients are throwing us a mass of updates this last couple of months, and tell us in broad terms what they are.