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Holy shit are you serious. I haven’t played video games in a few years. That’s crazy.

tuzemec 3y ago
Not sure if that was something GOG specific, but basically had to download the whole game again. The official specs are that the patch is 30GB, but requires 130GB free disk space.
- Springtime 3y ago
  GOG has has some strange calculations it performs for free space, particularly for its offline installers. One of the Cyberpunk 2077 updates required 400GB+ free space to install a sub 50GB patch, which was ludicrous and I think under-reported due to most using the Galaxy install process.
sdflhasjd 3y ago
I don't know how GOG delivers updates, but 100GB is basically the download size of the whole game, so it sounds like it's downloading it again. On Steam, the update was ~20GB. Still pretty ridiculous for what is essentially a patch though.
mock-possum 3y ago
Storage space is cheap. Fast internet is ubiquitous. Both are required to effectively distribute high quality assets.
- leononame 3y ago
  Fast internet is not that ubiquitous. There are plenty of people in rural and even urban areas with 16 Mbit or less even in developed countries. Game downloads are extremely frustrating to some friends of mine because it takes literally 20 hours to download sometimes.
- IcePic 3y ago
  You can't mean it in a way where someone wants to play a game and you need to DL 30 or 100 GB before it will let you play today. I sort of get it if this was some unimportant background download being done, but for a game you actually would like to play, you are stuck with "you should have started your computer 2-10-20 hours before actually wanting to play" depending on how fast your "Fast internet" is.
  - plorkyeran 3y ago
    The good news is that BG3 can be played offline, so if it's going to take a long time to update and you want to play now you can just keep playing the old version.
pjmlp 3y ago
A reason why I am mostly on retrogaming nowadays.

Not sure if that was something GOG specific, but basically had to download the whole game again. The official specs are that the patch is 30GB, but requires 130GB free disk space.

Springtime 3y ago
GOG has has some strange calculations it performs for free space, particularly for its offline installers. One of the Cyberpunk 2077 updates required 400GB+ free space to install a sub 50GB patch, which was ludicrous and I think under-reported due to most using the Galaxy install process.

sdflhasjd 3y ago

I don't know how GOG delivers updates, but 100GB is basically the download size of the whole game, so it sounds like it's downloading it again. On Steam, the update was ~20GB. Still pretty ridiculous for what is essentially a patch though.

mock-possum 3y ago

Storage space is cheap. Fast internet is ubiquitous. Both are required to effectively distribute high quality assets.

leononame 3y ago
Fast internet is not that ubiquitous. There are plenty of people in rural and even urban areas with 16 Mbit or less even in developed countries. Game downloads are extremely frustrating to some friends of mine because it takes literally 20 hours to download sometimes.
IcePic 3y ago
You can't mean it in a way where someone wants to play a game and you need to DL 30 or 100 GB before it will let you play today. I sort of get it if this was some unimportant background download being done, but for a game you actually would like to play, you are stuck with "you should have started your computer 2-10-20 hours before actually wanting to play" depending on how fast your "Fast internet" is.
- plorkyeran 3y ago
  The good news is that BG3 can be played offline, so if it's going to take a long time to update and you want to play now you can just keep playing the old version.

pjmlp 3y ago

A reason why I am mostly on retrogaming nowadays.