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It's been awesome to see tons of people enjoying LoR on their phones and tablets. Who knew so many of you were in Singapore! A crazy number. An almost suspicious number. Ahem.
Those playing may have noticed that the mobile release has not yet updated to 0.9.2. At this time during the beta, mobile updates will follow behind PC ones as we fix issues found by our lovely beta players. As we progress through the beta, we plan to bring mobile updates closer in timing to PC, and once LoR officially launches on mobile we’ll move to simultaneous release across all platforms.
We had a few key issues we wanted to address for mobile in 0.9.2, and I want to dive into one that reddit helped with: you may have seen some posts discussing how much data the mobile client was using. We're aware that our beta release has some extra data being sent and received that we'll trim off before launch, but the numbers being reported started to look a little surprising... 10MB for a single game isn't just "a little extra". It's a lot extra, like wrong side of this chart
We decided to take a closer look, and we found something surprising. Thanks to a critical clue from this excellent comment, a couple of our engineers shifted their focus from the core game to login. They found the same behaviour that u/M1R4G3M did: playing a game doesn't use so much data, but each login pulls down about 10MB! The problem was found shortly thereafter. A bug in our patcher causes us to download 10MB each time you check for an update after login, whether there's one available or not.
The amount of data the game uses is really, really important to us. For players who don't always play on wifi, every megabyte can make a huge difference to the cost of their data plan. Beta helps us discover big bugs like this, and the truth is we might not have caught it until later without help from the folks who posted good (critical!) feedback.
So we owe you a big thanks, for having our backs and for caring as much as you do! Please keep talking to us, and helping us make LoR better. Cheers.
Exis, u/Riot_DanCast & the LoR team
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