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My wife plays a lot of Counter Strike, but she is also a busy person with a stressful day job. She can't play every day, but because of this, every time she wants to play she has to sit there for 30 minutes to an hour to wait for the update to download.


This is the exact reason I pulled 1Gbit ethernet to my wifes PlayStation. It's so rare that she has the time to play, so spending 30 minutes or more to pull in updates is preventing her from enjoying what little time she has to play. Switching out the wifi for a physical connection have reduced those download time to just few minutes.

The amount of updates to what should be more or less finished products is just insane and I can't understand why the industry doesn't see it as a issue... Well, money but still.


I feel her pain. My 4 year old girl asked really nicely to play "the flying game" (Microsoft Flight simulator 2020) the other week. I got her out of the bath and we were both looking forward to playing but it the downloaded a major update which was still running when I started work the next morning.


Can’t you set it to auto updated?


We only use that computer for Counter Strike right now, it's our old "gaming PC", from when we had more time for that




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