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Anyone know how big the client is going to be ?
Tyranix
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Hopefully its not another 20+ gig client like Vanguard
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Impossible to tell until its finished and after compression has taken place. Gaute just said there was a 2.5gb patch for beta so assume its pretty big right now.
I certainly hope it is up in the 20gb range. Thats kinda a measure of the size of the world, quality of graphics, and variety. If it is less then 10gb I'd be concerned...
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Ethion
Vanguard was 20+ and was the biggest letdown of an MMO ever. a 20 gig waste of Bandwith
Isnt AoC gonna be limited by the 360 disk space?
Don't forget that the two releases are almost a full year apart, and have seperate development teams working on them. The two are far from directly tied together.
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Hemingway
last i heard on the forums was 25-30 gigs planned if i remember right( i may just be imagining that
). i just reinstalled the lastest client and its 16.5 gigs.
Hard to tell at this point. Depends on textures used (low/high), how compressed the files will be, version of game (directX 9 or 10) etc. I guess that the latest client size can give a rough estimate.
15-20 G atleast. I imagine the customers are not going to love starting over when their connection goes down at 76% download
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Face it, game clients are just going to keep getting bigger and bigger as they are asked to do more. Let's hope AOC can stay under the VG limit though...that was a bit much.
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What's the VG limit?
One thing I noticed about MMO clients is that they seem to expand in size the more you play. So after installation and patching they have size A. After a month of gameplay they grow to say (hypothetical size) 1.2xA. It probably has something to do with pre-cashed content.
I'm wondering myself about the size of the 7.1 music and also on how far they are willing to go with quest voice overs (which will definitely raise the game size as it did with EQ2).