Anyone know how big the download size will be?

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by GuyFawkes

It is a different animal I agree in ps2 . But I was impressed , click download >go make a coffee and have a smoke > press play . By time you've run around the starter area and done most of the quests (the initial download) the rest of the game is more-or -less on your hard drive.
Imagine same in PS2, short download , do some virtual reality missions etc , enter game , do set of missions there within a certain criteria > game is ready on HD give or take .

Yeah, except my net is nothing like that

Im fe. currently downloading The Secret World beta, 12,8gb. Some 18 hours or so for the whole thing. So I wouldnt quite have the game on my HDD by the time by the time I'm out of the tutorial, but it would help people especially with nets like mine, even if it would probably be hard to do with a game like PS2.

It would probably be some animations and graphical things they could save from.. But still, would think most of the terrain needs to be there, sucks driving into rocks that havnt loaded yet lol.

[Sicklylol]

Originally Posted by Astrok

Wondering how big it will be.
i guess around 3 gb and a total of 8 when its installed on your pc/lappy.

There is zero information about this particular topic, all information given to you by these people here should be taken lightly because they are most likely wrong.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Sicklylol

There is zero information about this particular topic, all information given to you by these people here should be taken lightly because they are most likely wrong.

Except quite many people have downloaded the E3 build on their computer and know how big it is.

Discussing that was forbid by Hamma, but the size of the download has been brought up in this thread a few times now..

[Sicklylol]

Everything is that build is subject to change. The real beta build could be twice the size of that. For all we know that build that was leaked was missing multiple continent, vehicles, weapons, high rez textures and so on. There is no point using that build as proof of the actual size.

[RadarX]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

Except quite many people have downloaded the E3 build on their computer and know how big it is.

Discussing that was forbid by Hamma, but the size of the download has been brought up in this thread a few times now..

We obviously aren't going to go into detail, but quite a few isn't really accurate.

Going through a few Beta launches myself, anything you've had read is already inaccurate. Development teams are always cognoscente of client size (some call it "footprint") and it will be kept as small as it can. It will not be small (under 10 GB) but in an age where that is like 3.5 hours of HD streaming? That's honestly not that much.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by RadarX

We obviously aren't going to go into detail, but quite a few isn't really accurate.

Going through a few Beta launches myself, anything you've had read is already inaccurate. Development teams are always cognoscente of client size (some call it "footprint") and it will be kept as small as it can. It will not be small (under 10 GB) but in an age where that is like 3.5 hours of HD streaming? That's honestly not that much.

For my friend with .5 megabit net it is.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Bags

For my friend with .5 megabit net it is.

Same for me.. 1mbit next, 10gb game is gonna take me all day to download.. If I start in the morning, I wont most likely get to play it during the same day

That said, Radar X, don't understand it the wrong way. Naturally I wouldn't mind having to download less for more content, but that obviously doesnt quite work out. I understand that I'm the minority with my 1mbit connection too. I very much expect any modern game to be 10gb+ anyways, so it doesnt disappoint me in any shape or form.

Yeah.. it might take me a day of downloading, but what is one day when I have many years to come to enjoy the game? But.. I wouldnt mind if we had a chance to download (most) of the client before beta starts, cos otherwise I'm gonna be stuck waiting for a good while

@Sicklylol, I'm almost expecting that to get pretty much doubled by release, yes, but I was more so pointing that we pretty much know how big will it be minimum.

[Synapse]

Originally Posted by RadarX

We obviously aren't going to go into detail, but quite a few isn't really accurate.

Going through a few Beta launches myself, anything you've had read is already inaccurate. Development teams are always cognoscente of client size (some call it "footprint") and it will be kept as small as it can. It will not be small (under 10 GB) but in an age where that is like 3.5 hours of HD streaming? That's honestly not that much.

If its going to be that size, don't be silly have think a central download server will handle the load. Should probably be torrented.

Also be aware that it's as much as a 12-18 hour delay to some players if the client is big enough they need to wait till it downloads overnight, while they sit and watch others play.

Much better to just give the client out a few days in advance. And again, no your download server is not going to handle it.

[Sledgecrushr]

42 gigabytes.

[p0intman]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

42

What you did there: I see it.

[Ragefighter]

I am guessing 14.6gb!

[Hamma]

Slow internet is not the norm these days for Gamers as it was back for PlanetSide 1.

[starshine]

hahaa i have 40 to 70 kbps download speed on a good day, dcuo toook me 5 days to download. looking forward to spending a week monitoring my computer to check on ps2 dl progress.

[TAA]

I have a 20Gb/month quota. If the client is more than 10 Gb I will probably have to download it in two steps - the first half at the end of the month and the second half at the beginning of the new month.

[Morior]

10GB or more...