Why cant we patch in steam?

as the title states please enlighten me

GGG decided for a very short time frame for players to be able to update their game prior of the league start.

there must be a good reason why they don't do like 4 hours prior of the release ;)))))))))

customer first!

Is it even available on the regular client? I assume it has to go live there before they can ship it to Steam.

Still Nada!

Just started...

Downloading 40GB on normal Client

well I patched in steam, and the client immediately crashes before even seeing the login screen, this is after a reboot and doing a file integrity check on the files...

I think it is having issues with my AMD 9070xt... here is what appears in the logs.

Irrecoverable Exception Callback: SET


RIP

Give it time.
I am on PC East Coast time, I was able to patch up but it did take a bit... 40.04GB.

Just checked, I can get to the login screen and of course the servers are not up yet... but 6,000 people in a Q waiting.

I still have 45 minutes before they go live but with a huge Q and rocky release day, I bet things are going to be dicey today.

first whole minute STEAM was in idle status, somehow.

then it started full speed, 29.1 GB download.
Now in queue.

I don't know why the standalone client doesn't have a pre-download torrent file available, but Steam has always required the official release time before you could download the update.