Why does Titanfall require 50GB of space?

[Crash486]

That's my entire month's cap.

If this is digital distribution of the future, I don't want it anymore...

Your entire cap is 50gb? I have comcast, and they're notorious for unjust bandwidth caps, and even I get 350gb. If my data cap was 50gb, I'd switch providers. The only thing that's going to change the way ISP's do business is to stop enabling their scumbag practices. Just rolling over lets them believe they can get away with it, and it screws over all the other consumers in the process. I feel bad enough paying for a 350GB cap on principal. It used to be a 250gb cap, but enough calling and complaining and threatening to leave got them to increase it up to 350. If they hadn't played ball, I would have opted to switch to DSL, which would have been a vastly slower connection for roughly the same price, but hey, at least no data caps.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Just FYI, The Elder Scroll Online Beta is 60 Gigs in size.

And you think this gives Titanfall power over it?

 

[LetalisK]

I started it barely 90 minutes ago and it's already 39GB/78% done. For the record, and as I said in my other post, I only have a 15mbps connection, so either I'm magically stealing bandwidth or Origin is downloading compressed files and unpacking them on the fly.

"Only" a 15mbps connection, he says. I would kill one kitten or several hobos to get that kind of speed! I'm moving to Canada.

 

[DoPo]

But the manufacturers aren't lying at all, as their 3TB drives really do have a capacity of 3 trillion Bytes. If anything, it's OSs that should display KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB.

I've seen discussions on that. And seems that a lot of people agree. But the trouble is that some places do have KB mean KB rather than KiB, however, others use KB to mean KiB. And the latter are more prevalent. So it's really confusing when you see that and you're mostly left wandering if they are supposed to have the 'i' there or not.

Yet, to this day and age we have this weird split going where the same term is used to mean two different things. Yet it hasn't been taht long since a proper term was defined for each only...15 years... Yeah, there is no excuse. At least Linux apps can report you space SI measurements if you explicitly ask them to, so-o-o, it's some sort of progress...

 

[Strazdas]

a 3 TB hard drive (you can install 60 titanfalls in it, well ok probably only 59 due to manufacturers using wrong calculation) can be bought for 150 dollars.

I was curious, so I did the math and the answer is 55.

( 3,000,000,000,000 / 2 [sup]30[/sup] ) / 50 = 55.87

BTW, the manufacturers aren't wrong; A proper Terabyte really is 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. Using SI decimal prefix conventions, 1 Byte times 1,000 is a Kilobyte, times 1,000 is a Megabyte and so on...

But operating systems don't work like that; they use so-called "binary Bytes" instead, where 1 Byte times 1,024 (or 2[sup]10[/sup]) is a Kilo-binary-Byte, or Kibibyte [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte], or KiB. What Windows really expects is not a TB, but a TiB, which would be 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. So, to Windows (and OSX/Linux), a 3TB drive is really a 2.72 TiB drive.

But the manufacturers aren't lying at all, as their 3TB drives really do have a capacity of 3 trillion Bytes. If anything, it's OSs that should display KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB.

Yes, your math is better than my "jsut throw it in my head" math. Thats hardly negating my point though.

And you are correct about manufacturers and OS, though id rather we all used a straight 1000 (like normal humans instead of awkward 1024) and call it by its normal name. but im asking too much i guess.

 

[Leoofmoon]

They did not compress the audio files down so thus you have a huge file size for them