Downloading ESO

My understanding is that we will have to download an entirely new copy of the game, does anyone know when we will be able to start the process?

I am downloading today on what I think is going to be released next Sunday, for those that ordered early and wanted to be sure to get their crab pet.

according to everything I've heard you will be able to update your existing installation with a patch.

Yep Grym is right in the eso reddit AMA they said just update your beta client no need to uninstall an download all over again

I can confirm that.  They've changed the Beta client in the launcher and it now says "(NA)" as the beta client has become the North America server.  So just patch that and you're fine.

Thank you!

Thanks for the heads-up, I am updating now - oh joy of joys!  :)

Thanks! I'm updating now

Just a heads up for anyone who hasn't installed the beta client, but has the PTS client installed. Simply rename the PTS folder to The Elder Scrolls Online and open the launcher. Then click repair, and let it patch, and you'll have the live client. Figured this out last night when i saw that there were two directories -The Elder Scrolls, and The Elder Scrolls PTS, and figured i'd give it a shot after backing up the pts folder. So for those of you who have only been playing on the PTS and never downloaded the beta client, this will save you a LOT of downloading.

You can also download if you did not play beta, but have a preorder code. You have to start from scrach and it takes forever, but you can do it.

NOTE:  THEY ARE NOT DONE UPDATING THIS FOR WHAT WILL BE LIVE.  It very well can change and not load right yet.  I would WAIT until they say, "GO!"

Why?

I've been doing testing with download and install with them for over a week now due to other funky issues I got.  We are finally at the point of organizing phone calls because we can't figure out what the issue is.

So I download slow and I mean SLOOOOOOW.  Due to this and the fact they are updating the files, I actually finally figured out what file it could not write, too, but due to a change on their end, I'm back at 21GB to download and try agian.  Despite them changing things, we keep trying the downloads in order to grab all the data we can on what the client is doing.

So I'm not having any success though prior to the last beta weekend I had no issues for 10 months with them.  Scratching our heads and about to sing crazy songs like Cadwll while trying to find the scamp Molag Bal let loose.

All that blather aside, if you download slow and it suddenly has a change of mind on things, don't be surprised if you have to do it again.  They are doing a LOT of stuff on their end including updating what you will download for patches or full installs.

Looks like on the official page that you start downloading/patching final version Thursday the 27th.