My suggestion is precisely as the title implies. I suggest that a: “Estimated Time Remaining” feature be put onto the download launcher.
For people with really fast internet (10MB+ connection) download time may not be a real issue. Generally they can expect an entire game to take about 2 hours to download. Go watch a movie or two or go hang out in town for a while and it will be done.
People with slow internet connections (1.5 MB or slower for example) dread having to download anything. Just patching the game can take -DAYS-. ‘Estimated Time Remaining’ helps me to determine whether or not I should bother letting the patcher run during hours that I could be doing something else… or if it’s going to take so long that I should only run it when I sleep because let’s face it – it’s going to take days to complete.
This launcher is absolutely horrible in terms of just that. I was hoping that I could at least estimate the remaining time myself… no. Not only does the launcher not tell you how many gigs/MB of information are -left- to download but the percentage completed is not the percentage of data that you have downloaded but rather the percentage of files that you have downloaded.
That doesn’t tell the player anything. They may only have 1,000 files left but if those 1,000 files are going to take eight hours, big deal.
It’s a little off-putting as a new player to not be able to tell how long this mega-patch is going to take. I can’t find any information on how many gigs/MB’s of information there has been in patches/updates since the retail disc release so there’s absolutely no way for me to judge my time remaining. Some times it only takes two minutes to download 2%….. other times it takes close to an hour. Frustrating and very off-putting.