Don't delete your 3.0.x patches just yet
by Eliah Hecht 
Oct 19th 2008 at 6:00PM
Most of you have hopefully managed to get patched up to 3.0.2 by now, and fortunately it seems like the servers are stable enough that we can often get some playtime in (with last night being an exception, at least for my realm). If you have installed the patches, I have a word of advice from you, straight from Eyonix: Do not delete your 3.0.x patch files. You will need them when you install Wrath of the Lich King.
The reason for this is that the Wrath DVDs, having gone gold a week ago, contains an installer for patch 3.0.1, so after installing the Wrath client, you'll have to patch back up to 3.0.2 (will almost certainly be at least 3.0.3 by then, actually). So if you delete your patches now, you'll just have to re-download them on November 13th, and it's a good bet that that will not be a pleasant experience. Save your patches!
Filed under: Patches, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jamesisgreat Oct 19th 2008 6:04PM
This may be a bit noobish of me but I've never deleted any patches - every time I go into the WoW files to just install an add on I'm worried I'm going to bugger something up and have to reinstall the whole bloody thing, patches n all. Which would be bad. So yeah, i won't be deleting patches anytime soon.
conker87 Oct 20th 2008 7:17AM
Noobish? That's one of the most sensible things to do. There's nothing worse than having to download a huge full patch again because you had to reinstall WoW.
BillDoor Oct 19th 2008 6:07PM
If we've already deleted them, where can I download them from again?
A Firetruck Oct 19th 2008 6:26PM
http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors
some mirrors there
Darnodus Oct 19th 2008 6:31PM
Thanks for the heads up
Tumleren Oct 19th 2008 6:40PM
Yea, thanks for making us aware. I always delete my patches when they're installed, to save some room, so this was nice to know, even though I'd probably just get them from mirrors anyway (Damn you, Blizzard Downloader).
Pretty stupid that we have to re-patch though.. Did this happen with the release of TBC too?
Mark Oct 20th 2008 2:37AM
We all know what happened with the patching for 3.0.1 on the live servers.
I'm not sure that I'm looking forward to any server problems that may *will* arise when WoTLK launches :(
Hope they don't make a cock-up of it on the 13th, like they did on wednesday >
STereo Oct 19th 2008 7:02PM
Don't look now, but the 11,000,000 paying customer beta test has crashed again as we're going into Sunday night.
David Oct 19th 2008 8:06PM
I see people complaining "Oh blizzard's server's are so unstable and we are paying for a beta test." Yes its unstable and frustrating, but seriously what can blizzard do?
I don't think its realistic to expect a perfect, 100% bug free rollout of anything this big, especially when going up from a v1.x to v2.0 or 2.x to v3.0. How could have blizzard tested a million plus live accounts all acting independently? What is YOUR solution to creating a bug free rollout? Hire 1,000,000 plus beta testers? Or even 35,000 to simulate a populated realm, maybe 100,000 to recreate a battleground/arena environment? That's more people than most giant companies in the world have. I think some people need some more perspective on this.
Cowbane Oct 19th 2008 6:57PM
I used the downloader, cause I pre-loaded. What does this mean EXACTLY for me?
Yaimano Oct 19th 2008 9:56PM
I had to do a system search for the files in the screenshot because I had no idea where the background downloader had put them, didn't remember if I deleted them from the desktop or something.
Turns out I hadn't, it stuck them here (I use Vista):
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft\Updates
Cowbane Oct 19th 2008 9:58PM
Ah, ok, thank you!
Basic Nov 4th 2008 1:43PM
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
damn my memory, I almost had to search my HD before I saw this
Peter Oct 19th 2008 7:04PM
I'm glad someone at WoW Insider has finally acknowledged the instability still going on with the servers-- for some of us (here's looking at you, Stormstrike battlegroup) the game has been all but unplayable since the patch, going down every 60-90 minutes during peak times.
RyuHakubi Oct 19th 2008 8:10PM
You're not alone out there, petey boy. Ruin's been a bit of a mess too, though I think a CHUNK of the problem is all the people flooding the Scarlet Monestary for Chuckles the Horseman are overloading the ability of the servers to create instances. Elune, specifically. :-(
Chris Oct 19th 2008 10:05PM
I think instability is an understatement. Instances were fully down most of today - unacceptable!
SBKT Oct 19th 2008 7:52PM
Wow, way too late. I delete them almost immediately after install, and I'm way too lazy/our internets suck too much for it to do this.
Personally, I don't think it will make a large difference.
onetrueping Oct 19th 2008 9:33PM
Well, you'll have to re-download the patches on install, which takes longer (using the downloader, quite a bit longer). That's it.
MusedMoose Oct 19th 2008 8:15PM
Son of a succubus, I just deleted mine this morning... Ah, well. Twenty-four days is plenty of time to download them again. Grr. Arg.
Chris Oct 19th 2008 10:01PM
Servers are NOT stable - instances are crashing, arenas brutally lagging, bg queue times are bad....
this is not cool, blizzard.