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11-15-2012, 04:12 AM

underage17 underage17 is offline

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Why do app upgrades require you to download the entire app?

For instance, the updated version of MC3 has a small change (prevent speed hackers).. So for something that's only a few megabytes in size, why do we have to download the entire 1gb+ game?

Can't they have a patch system like they do on PC games?

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