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The Division 2 has a +90 GB download on PS4 (Physical)
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This obviously isn't a direct reply to you, but...
Of course people still buy physical. What kind of an ignorant comment is that? There's a reason it still exists. What? Do you think everyone lives in a city or new subdivision with gigabit internet?
It's faster to buy the disc, install it off the disc and download the updates (or hopefully lack thereof)
Of course it's not. For such a big game "lazy developer" is the least accurate description of the people who made the game.
Please if you are going to accuse the devs who have quite obviously put a lot of effort into the game then please explain why? What could they have done differently?
Or maybe they should of all worked 80 hour weeks to get that file size down.
Complete pass on the game, FFS. I have a 1 TB data cap and don't want to use 1/10th on it for a game I bought physically. I was thinking of playing with PS4 friends because I was passing on the PC version due to Epic Game Store nonsense that excludes 3rd party website discounts on pc version after launch.
The "patch" is the size of the entire game. Something has clearly gone horribly wrong.
I clicked the link and it says the download is 48-52GB, same as Xbox/PC. The install is 90-100gb.
Seems you would be better of sending your PS4 to a friend/relative with higher bandwidth, let them download the game and ship it back to you...
Edit: not that this is a solution to your problem, just a theoretical reality.
I think it's reasonable for people to complain that the download size on PS4 is almost double the size on other versions. They're not getting double the game, and it's not going to look better on PS4 than on Xbox One X or PC,.
Yes, there's going to be a weird period where for some people and for some games, streaming is going to be the most data-cap-friendly option. 100GB gives you approximately 22 hours streaming a game at an overall bitrate of 10 megabits per second. If it's a choice between downloading a 100GB game or streaming it, people with lower data caps might very well pick streaming.
Let's be fair please, the term "high speed" has no business being used to refer to DSL. The post you're responding to says that a high speed internet connection will have 90GB downloaded in a few hours and I think that's fair for anyone whose definition of "high speed" is based on what's available nowadays. For anyone with really high-speed internet the bottleneck here is likely to be PSN - although speed varies the highest speed that I see PSN maintain consistently is around 10 megabytes per second (so 80 megabits per second) and that'd result in a 2.5-hour download for this patch.
I still see high speed advertised for speeds lower than mine, or thereabouts. All the time.
That's called cable or fiber or gigabit (which I'd give a kidney for).
I don't like it because I have a data cap. If what you're saying for next gen is true (and it probably will be) and my data cap stays the same then I'll probably turn into an indie-only gamer because I can't really afford to download games that are over 100gb. I already have to ration my game downloads as it is.
I'm aware that companies are going to want to use the term to apply to their internet connections regardless of how fast they actually are. That doesn't mean that we have to accept their definition of the term as valid. At least in Europe, guidelines for what should be classed as "high speed" are 100 megabits per second and above, and while there's always some subjective wriggle room with relative terms, personally I wouldn't think of anything much lower than that as being "high" speed.
That would appear to be you in this instance. Initially it seemed like the day one patch was a repackage of the entire game, but now it appears that not only is it that - they are keeping the patch alongside the initial install, effectively doubling the size of the install. This is silly because PS4 has had the ability to do diff patches for ages, so there's no reason for this to be the case.
Basically, the way they have packaged the patch on PS4 is scuffed. Maybe if you had engaged your brain you would have figured that out?
I mean, you can get high speed DSL. I can download 90gb in about 4hrs on my DSL connection, which is OK.
An external hard drive might as well be required now with how big these game files are getting.
You're lucky because that's not the case here. The government said we should all have 50mbps as a necessity, but cable and telecom companies basically said fuck you.
I called the cable company and asked them if they could help us out because of that, but they told us that the government didn't give them enough money and basically laughed at me.
If I don't get better Internet or move soon, I'll end up jumping off a cliff or quitting gaming.
I posted this 25 mins ago but people were too busy being outraged to notice.
That's wild. People with base PS4s can only have 5 games at this point.
Next gen consoles better have 2TB to start.
Next gen consoles better have 2TB to start.
US is where a lot of posters live.
I wouldn't be too surprised if the console's day 1 patch would probably take up half that. Can't believe we are getting 100GB games that aren't even 4K in most cases. Next gen a 1TB HDD will probably be too small a couple years in.
I'm aware I'm lucky and I sympathise with anyone who is stuck with poor internet speeds. I've been on the other side of that divide, messing around with dial-up connections that struggled to maintain 33kbps while others were getting ISDN or ADSL.
However I think that's even more of a reason to be selective about how the term "high speed" gets used. If there's general acceptance that something like, say, 10 megabits per second can be counted as "high speed", then when you ask a government or a company to provide "high speed" internet that kind of speed is what they'll target.
I don't understand what you mean, they're both US sites.
Whoops, sorry. I'm guessing you're right, that it's only 45GB download and someone messed up on the other, but we'll see. Seems weird that the platforms would be SO different.
It'd easily take me more than that. These file sizes are just ridiculous.
Downloads shouldn't interfere with other users on your network, no matter how slow your internet connection. I used to do 300mb downloads of anime fansubs (I am an old skool weeb) on a 56k modem which would literally take a day per episode and it didn't interfere with other users on my network.
You should look into getting a router that works with OpenWRT and configuring SQM Cake to combat the buffer bloat you are most likely experiencing. It's a problem with most modern consumer grade routers because they tend to come with more memory than they really need, and they use it to buffer traffic when they should just drop packets to rate limit connections. When you have it setup you should just be able to leave the downloads running without causing latency or bandwidth issues for other applications on your network.
You will probably still have to pause when it rains though.
I'd be happy with that but a lot of gamers are
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Yeah, that's weird but still would be a hefty download on a physical copy.
A 2TB HD in 2020 shouldn't be much more expensive than a 500GB HD in 2013
I think its pathetic a game needs a titile update on release day. I tend to avoid games that require that because it just shouldn't happen.
Clearly. A guy on the internet told me the same thing, too.
Pre-load for digital yes, but physical still needs a 50 gig patch.
Are they shipping empty discs with just a license key or something?
I was saying before HDD sizes were announced for PS4 and Xbox One that they should be 1TB and 500GB wasn't going to be enough. Next gen is going to need a minimum of 2TB of storage.
That's why I just said fuck it and bought a 4TB external drive.
Is this one of the reasons why games these days have two release dates? I mean how ridiculous is this? You can't defend this kind of practice or even talk anything good about it. Unless you're getting paid by Ubisoft or are an employee of an internet provider who supports download limits so you have to pay more when exceeding the limits.
If this happens in an age where we don't even have 4K games. We're screwed for next-gen. Downloads will be 250/350GB per game.
If this happens in an age where we don't even have 4K games. We're screwed for next-gen. Downloads will be 250/350GB per game.
