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Is a 13GB game patch unreasonable?
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
- Start date
SoulUnison
Banned
Massively unreasonable.
Garrett 2U
Member
I'm not a fan of patches that contain DLC content. Just separate them...
VanquishUK
Member
Depends how fucked the game is to justify a 13GB patch.
RealityPales
Member
Yes. Yes it is.
HUELEN10
Member
By that point, you should be mailed a replacement disk for free, just like in the good old days.
tokyostomp
Banned
Need changelog to see if unreasonable.
*Edit*
http://news.xbox.com/2014/01/games-diving-deep-into-the-add-on-content-of-dead-rising-3
- Content for DLC episodes 3 and 4 added as part of this CU.
- Various Stability Fixes.
- Various Performance Improvements.
- Online Stability improvements.
- Added a progress bar to main menu while installer is running.
- Fixed an issue which could allow the user to overwrite their save file during streaming install while the game is booted.
- Fix for missing English VUI command in Multiplayer menu.
- Some improvements to item pickups.
- Fixed a reproducible issue where the player could get out of the world.
- Fixed an issue where music wasn’t present during the streaming install.
- Fixed some mission scripting issues.
- Fixed an issue which could cause some co-op players to not progress blueprint collection achievements correctly.
- Fixed an issue where the UI was not updating properly.
- Fixed an issue which caused glass textures to appear low-res.
- Fixed an issue which could cause shadows to render incorrectly.
- Fixed a texture issue with the Golden SledgeSaw weapon.
- SmartGlass stability fix.
Seems DLC is included in patch but not unlocked, when you "buy" the DLC you will simply get an unlock key.
I hope this isn't a trend.
*Edit*
http://news.xbox.com/2014/01/games-diving-deep-into-the-add-on-content-of-dead-rising-3
- Content for DLC episodes 3 and 4 added as part of this CU.
- Various Stability Fixes.
- Various Performance Improvements.
- Online Stability improvements.
- Added a progress bar to main menu while installer is running.
- Fixed an issue which could allow the user to overwrite their save file during streaming install while the game is booted.
- Fix for missing English VUI command in Multiplayer menu.
- Some improvements to item pickups.
- Fixed a reproducible issue where the player could get out of the world.
- Fixed an issue where music wasn’t present during the streaming install.
- Fixed some mission scripting issues.
- Fixed an issue which could cause some co-op players to not progress blueprint collection achievements correctly.
- Fixed an issue where the UI was not updating properly.
- Fixed an issue which caused glass textures to appear low-res.
- Fixed an issue which could cause shadows to render incorrectly.
- Fixed a texture issue with the Golden SledgeSaw weapon.
- SmartGlass stability fix.
Seems DLC is included in patch but not unlocked, when you "buy" the DLC you will simply get an unlock key.
I hope this isn't a trend.
Witcher 2's Enhanced Edition patch was like 12gigs on PC.
If it adds more content, then whatever... it's 2014 though, one would have hoped that ISPs wouldn't be restricting us bandwidth caps at this point.
Unfortunately ISPs gonna ISP in most cases.
Then again if it's all hotfixes, then jesus christ what was the point of the initial release?
If it adds more content, then whatever... it's 2014 though, one would have hoped that ISPs wouldn't be restricting us bandwidth caps at this point.
Unfortunately ISPs gonna ISP in most cases.
Then again if it's all hotfixes, then jesus christ what was the point of the initial release?
Nymphae
Banned
Completely. One reason some people prefer disc based media is that they might not have the bandwith to allow them to use that much data. I would be furious if this was the norm and I had bad bandwith caps.
As games get larger and more complex this is obviously going to become unavoidable, but right now at least, the impression many people get is that devs are shipping unfinished games in hopes they can just patch it later. That is unacceptable.
As games get larger and more complex this is obviously going to become unavoidable, but right now at least, the impression many people get is that devs are shipping unfinished games in hopes they can just patch it later. That is unacceptable.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
Wasn't most of that "patch" assists for the dlc instead of bug fixes?
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I have no clue, so I'll ignorantly say yes and go happily about my day. It really makes no difference to me.
ThatChairMan
Member
It should be on the disc instead.
I'd go with this. You fuck up a game that badly requiring a patch this big, press some discs and send it to owners.
Any update larger than a gigabyte is unreasonable assuming it's just bug fixes. Last gen updates on 360 were like a few megabytes. Having to download a gigabyte update for Killzone on Vita was hilarious. If you are forcing people to download this bullshit at least have the decency to release a bug fix list on your website.
EDIT: it's especially stupid because I didn't even have any problems playing dead rising single player or with a friend. I certainly didn't notice anything that seemed straight up broken.
EDIT: it's especially stupid because I didn't even have any problems playing dead rising single player or with a friend. I certainly didn't notice anything that seemed straight up broken.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Yes. Fix yoh shit.
(Ironically enough, this is a direct reaction to capcoms on-disk dlc antics. What the should be doing is programing their games in such a way that the people who want the DLC download it and play it, and people who don't can play their game as normal, even in co op with a DLC owner)
But that wont happen.
(Ironically enough, this is a direct reaction to capcoms on-disk dlc antics. What the should be doing is programing their games in such a way that the people who want the DLC download it and play it, and people who don't can play their game as normal, even in co op with a DLC owner)
But that wont happen.
For people with bandwidth limits (some as low as 20-50GB) I would say hell yes. Comcast (in many areas) has reinstanted the cap of 250GB, which is one of the highest caps. Some areas they have yet to reimpose the cap which is great.
I just can't imagine the patch did not have a ton of redundant stuff included if it was that large.
I just can't imagine the patch did not have a ton of redundant stuff included if it was that large.
Nymphae
Banned
This is an incredible idea. If I have to download more than 50% of your game after I bought and installed it, that should be on you.
Fuz
Banned
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
I agree but it depends on the size. When I had Blops 2 we had to download a patch when all of the dlc gun camos were released so everyone can see them in game. I was fine with that as the patch was small and took no time to download.
The Dead Rising 3 patch is an extreme case and a patch of this size to make sure you have all of dlc downloaded shouldn't be imposed on anyone.
To answer your question OP. Yes the size of this patch is unreasonable
silver.tongue
Member
OIf course it is. It's bigger than most games of this gen.
It's bigger than NBA Live 2014 (I believe it's 9Gb!)
The problem is that I only see things getting worse in this case with the addition of DLCs, not only bug fixes.
It's bigger than NBA Live 2014 (I believe it's 9Gb!)
The problem is that I only see things getting worse in this case with the addition of DLCs, not only bug fixes.
Neuromancer
Member
I don't even see how there could be 13GB of DLC for that game. Are there new areas or story missions?
michaelius
Banned
No big deal for me as long as it isn't in every game.
Wow, you guys need to check facts. It didn't use 13gb of data and does much more then dlc
number one , the install goes straight to 50% and only used 7gb of my ISP data.
number 2 , it increases game from 22gb to 24gb. Most of the patch was rewriting the install
number 3 it did ALOT of fixes including performance fixes for better fps.
if your complaining about them improving the game its silly.
number one , the install goes straight to 50% and only used 7gb of my ISP data.
number 2 , it increases game from 22gb to 24gb. Most of the patch was rewriting the install
number 3 it did ALOT of fixes including performance fixes for better fps.
if your complaining about them improving the game its silly.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
Depends on the context.
If it's a 13Gb content patch of fixes and updates for unlocked content, no, that's not unreasonable.
If it's a 13Gb patch that the majority of which includes pre-loading of locked DLC content, fuck yes, utterly unreasonable.
If it's a 13Gb content patch of fixes and updates for unlocked content, no, that's not unreasonable.
If it's a 13Gb patch that the majority of which includes pre-loading of locked DLC content, fuck yes, utterly unreasonable.
Inferno313
Banned
Yeah, there's no way that's true. A Single-Layer blu-ray is 25 gigs. More of my PS4 games than not are bigger than that.
If this is the case, I'd say this is beyond unreasonable. This means that people who may not want the DLC at all are still having to waste their bandwidth downloading it.
la flama blanca
Banned
I am still in shock, lol.