Folks, relax, this is Origin. Origin flat out lie about file and download size. They download PACKED files and unpack locally, however the client still tells you you are downloading at the speeds it would take them unpacked, hence completely unrealistic downlaod speeds that anyone with network logs can point you out false. this is why your getting 38GB done in minutes - your actually downloading 4 GB instead.
And game clients were getting more and more bloated. I mean heck some games have grown
4 times in size with barely any added content. Its like developers decided "fuck it they got large HDDs lets not compress files"
KingsGambit said:
bandwitch is costly hur dur
the problems is not that there are (minimal) costs of internet. the problem is that ISPs are litteraly scamming you out of the money with bandwitch caps. even with the economic plans most people pay way too much for what they get. for example i pay 20 dollars a month for uncapped unlimited 100mbps connection. and the ISP TUNRS A PROFIT on me. and i do transfer a lot of data, just this weekend there was over 70 GB of traffic from my end. Altrough, granted, most of it was limited to europe.
Also while bandwitch is limited resource, any ISP that doesnt have enough bandwitch to support uncapped download of its users in 2014 deserves to go bancrupt. they are obviously ridiculously inefficient.
Dead Century said:
I think this is why I feel myself pulling away from PC gaming. The push for digital and huge amounts of data in an age where people still have caps along with other issues.
you should be pulling away from scamming ISPs instead.
lacktheknack said:
And yet here I am.
It's all well and good to say that I'm being scammed, but at the end of the day, I refuse to buy Titanfall if it's that large, and it really didn't have to be (there's no way a beta will be 10 GB and the full thing will be 5 times that size).
then you are the reason you get scammed. instaed you should refuse to buy internet services that give 50 gb caps. Heck, back in 2003 when i got my fiber optics we had 100 GB cap that quickly rose to 1000 GB because users wanted more. at no additional costs btw. we had 2000 gb cap in 2008 back when the caps died.
RealRT said:
And you know why is this even a thing? Because Origin doesn't have a bloody language change feature that Steam had for years. ELECTRONIC ARTS: CHALLENGE EVERYTHING (inluding common sense).
they have been challenging common sense ever since 2006
rofltehcat said:
@ the people saying stuff like "get better internet": This is BS. You simply can't expect everyone on the planet to have the same access to internet connection someone in major American cities has. Data caps and slower speeds are the norm in many countries.
Oh, we definatelly can expect everyone on the planet who can afford videogames (thus excluding those without electricity ect) to have at least basic internet (which is sadly often better than what even major american cities has, you internet-third-world).
Data caps and slow speeds are the norm in countris which allow retarded internet monopolies. Such as US or UK. you know, two slowest internet countries in developed world.
TomWiley said:
An even more important question is; why is this such a big problem to so many people with most discs being 1tb or more?
because the target audience (US) still lives in the internet stone age.
Li Mu said:
I remember back when I was shocked to find that Sam & Max needed 250mb of disk space. Now I feel old.
ech. Starcraft takes 200 MB? better delete something!
Aaron Sylvester said:
This is the stupidest thing I have heard in the PC world for a very long time, and I've encountered a lot of stupid things.
SSD yay
Oh you havetn been following closely then have you. Audio files taking huge spaces were prominent long time ago. Heck, the reason Oblivion cut content (arenas in all cities) is because they couldnt fit the audio on the discs. that was released in 2006. Audio takes a lot of space when there is a lot of dialogue in game and always did.
Also SSD is a luxury item. You can run the game perfectly fine on a HDD.
ProtosOmega said:
The game waits until everyone on the initial launch has loaded
this is VERY bad. i saw games that do the same. Cue a shitty dialup user timing out while map is loading = you can go and make yourself some team before it loads. and drink it too.
