I’m glad I recently switched to Comcast, but yeeesh.
The game was like 60GB total, and now for this one patch, we are expected to download upwards of 15GB, which is 25% of the entire game’s total size for one patch.
Kinda feel sorry for people who are loading WoW on smaller SSD drives, because yeesh… we keep this up, and the game’s going to bloat to 100GB+ here by the end of the expansion.
Are such huge patches really necessary? Is there no way to conserve space being used a bit or something?
We live in the data and information age, file sizes are only going to continue to get larger.
i would like to point out that it looks like blizzard is changing the way your computer handles the game, so as a way to do this it prob had to redistribute a lot of the information and so lots of that 16 gigs was prob just replacing what was already there and the game file wont get much larger from it
I just think this is funny and not just directed at you OP but for a couple of weeks people have been saying 8.1 wasn’t anything, there was going to be no real new content. Now several people are upset about the size of the patch. I am just glad I am running the game on my ordinary 6 TB drive i suppose.
This patch also includes a restructuring of Wow’s file system.
I suspect there’s so much in the patch because chuncks of the old file system will be wiped out and the new placed in its stead.
One of the benefits of the new system is that if one has a current PTR installed, live patches will pull data from there instead of downloading all the duplicate data again.
It contains the rest of the expansion.
Going to finally see my gfx card be fully used if it means 16 gb download then so be it!
It seems kinda silly to make us download so much data all over again, instead of including instructions of how to unpack, and repack data files that are already there. It seems rather inefficient in terms of bandwidth to have us download data that we already have just because they’re changing up the file system.
That only took them what, 15 years to finally do this? lol. I’ve been saying this for 10+ years that PTR/Beta should grab everything from Live WoW and then download the patch, something that should have been do-able without restructuring the file system.
It’s more backend and performance stuff than actual content so you can get off the soapbox.
Or I can stay on the soapbox. No need to take it personally that I am amused. Laughter is the best medicine after all.
Yeah, it was a bit of a clog on the download. I’m guessing it was the update to the world map/artwork for the Darkshore Warfront, and the new raid stuff. A lot of that is usually client based for latency anyway.
I’m just starting the fact that your comparison is a false equivalency. One this is not like the other, that’s all.
I am willing to bet most of that is tied up in the new game engine, which once unpacked and installed will be much smaller than the 16gig we downloaded. Plus they will be removing the old one and restructuring the way release and ptr builds are handled.
When you make such changes they tend to be bigger than expected but generally end up cleaning themselves up to be much smaller in the end.
And Blizz has always been pretty good about compressing the size of their data. Until now, it seems, due to file restructuring. So in the end, it should balance out anyway.
Not “just”- that would have been fine- only a difference of opinion. Adding the “Get off your soapbox” made it a personal attack. Not cool.
I had to migrate it off my SSD until I can get a 1TB one installed. This has cratered my playtime to zero as I am spoiled by the fast load times. There is no way I am going back.
I’d rather play in my steam library than wait for minutes to roll by as Battle for Lageroth shows me who and what is supposed to be in my shard this time.
Wut. I’m confused.
Enter sarcasm mode
Well you see, Comcast is an internet and cable provider with…ehhhh ok prices. But they cover a large area of the nation and have many options to improve your internet speed.
End sarcasm.
Medicine is the best medicine
Gonna be moving Wow to HDD at this rate. I barely have space on the SSD as is, but I have WoW on it to make it run faster. My HDD has 2 TB.