So... 16GB update

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I wondered why my system was draggin it’s butt. Just what could they be adding that’s 16GB worth?

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Probably part of the next patch that comes out next week >.> <.<

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Prepatch maybe?

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Prepatch, plus doesn’t the Christmas event begin soon?

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It says it is a prepatch… but if you click the sprocket (that is what I call it) icon… You can change your download speed so it won’t lag your system.

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Figured it might be that, but 16GB…

Wow. :open_mouth:

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Holy crap, 16 gigs!!..?!?

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something is clearly off, BFA wasn’t even 16 gigs

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They’re forcing your free copy of destiny 2 onto your system…

J/k
Or am I

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That’s a Classic size patch.

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When I looked at downloading that free copy of Destiny 2 that they recently were giving out, the total download was like 96 GB or something like that. I mean, that’s 10% of a 1TB drive, why would I download that even if it was free?

WoW is like a new game with each expansion, and starting with Vanilla, we’ve had “eight games” in total. When I recently installed it on a new machine, all of that was 54GB or thereabouts.

But a major content patch during an expansion that nearly 1/4 of all of that has come before it? It’s like they are downloading a fresh, complete copy of BfA plus Legion at the same time.

/moo :cow:

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Shush no it’s to early to dream that big…yet.

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I know they are adding the Multi-thread support and some engine changes but like what else could be that large?

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Time to upgrade your potato PC. 16GB really isn’t that much, these days.

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Raid
Warfront
Quests
2 Islands
2 Allied Races (albeit locked)
All the new models for armor, mounts, battle-pets, etc…

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more like wrath sized. but the classic demo was around 11 gigs. so u may be right.

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so you’re trying to convice others that 16 gbs for a “patch” is acceptable for those things? not even legion 7.1 was this big and had TWO raids.

this is wrong… even worse it’s MORE than BFA pre patch itself… what are we downloading up to 8.3.5 already?

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Raid (New
Warfronts (New)
Quests (Don’t take up that much space)
2 Islands (Better be in 16k resolution)
2 Allied Races (Most of the Files were already in the game (Not new))
Better be some sweet battle pets to be a 16gb patch

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Hopefully they went a bit overboard with the new Pally animations.

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I don’t normally keep track of download sizes. I started downloading it 5 minutes ago and it is done now. They asked what was in the patch, I gave a list.

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