i do not care how fast your internet connection is.
i have limited data per month. and these dudes at ccp give me patches everyday… i can’t play this game for the rest of the month.
i have other things to do online, which use data too.
it is annoying and just bad.
why can’t you compress the files at least? how can a simple patch have 2GB???
a fkin patch that changes a number ingame??? this takes 2GB of filesize? are you smokin the wrong stuff or what???
Get a better ISP that doesn’t charge based on data. All Online/live service games are like this.
Games reuse assets a lot. Anytime one thing changes, everything that the thing is in the game needs to be redownloaded. The size of the game isn’t getting bigger, you are just rewriting over it. That could be an audio file that exists in multiple places or a pirate ship gets a tweak and now everywhere that has that model needs to be repointed to the new model to spawn. A file can also contain a whole library of assets, so if they tweak how a structure looks to get rid of screen tearing or whatever, the entire file containing all the environmental structures will have to be redownloaded.
that makes sense to me. ye.
i was wondering, how it could possibly be these amounts of data. but now after you explained it, i get it.
man i really need another inet connection…