Game Client size

[Veedo]

For those interested, we have the size of the live client. Hope some of you are ready to free up space, because it's 22GB at launch.

 

source: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?game=26 ... 228&page=1

 

Dear Customer,

 

Thank you for contacting the Square Enix Support Centre.

 

 

I understand your problem and can relate to the issue of the fair-usage policy being broken. However I'm afraid to say the final version of the game will be using a peer-to-peer system identical to the one in the Beta. The main game will ship on a disc so it won't be necessary to download the initial 22GB (approx.) client. That said, patches which could be large will be distributed this way so although they will be smaller and less frequent they may still take you over the fair-usage limit. I'm sorry about this and there are no plans to allow users to adjust their upload and download rates but we have made our head-office aware that this is causing problems for people and may be fixed in future.

 

Again I hope you aren't too put off by this and I hope the patches will be small enough and infrequent enough not to break your limit.

 

Warm Regards,

Square Enix Support Centre Team

Thank you again for contacting us and for your interest in Square Enix products!

More help and information are available at the Square Enix Support Centre website.

http://support.eu.square-enix.com

[Kejira]

Uhh Nice to Know, Thanks for sharing ^-^

[Asyria]

The morale of the story: Don't play a next generation, heavy graphic game without a large download/upload limit and a huge hard drive. ^^;

[Satisiun]

The morale of the story: Don't play a next generation' date=' heavy graphic game without a large download/upload limit and a huge hard drive. ^^;[/quote']

 

[Skye]

Download limits are so... stone age-ish.

[Minor]

If they use the same methods as in Beta, just get urself a torrent downloader and use that to download the patches for you. Saved me about 8hours on the 4.7gb download for the Beta.

[Freyar]

Download limits are so... stone age-ish.

 

Naw man.. they're the wave of the future!

 

 

22GB is nothing for MMOs these days. I've gotten used to games being 20-30GB on average. As far as those patches go, I'm still deciding whether or not I'll be hosting them myself post-release.

 

Edit: Doh.. FTP's offline. *grabs wrench*

[Asytra]

Here's hoping that's at least several gigs of voice-acting for the quests.

 

I was a bit disappointed in beta that only the intro is voice-acted. I've been hoping it's just something they withheld from beta because of client size... I guess we'll know soon...

[Veedo]

Current theories involve extra voice acting and all the stuff that is currently on the servers (i.e. cutscenes) and so forth which lead to the lag issues.

[Eeam]

Thank the lord my computer is awesome. <_

[Xzenivar]

MMmm 250 gigs of free space, I love you baby *pets computer*

[Freyar]

MMmm 250 gigs of free space' date=' I love you baby *pets computer*[/quote']

 

1.5TB > 250GB

[Dreamer]

[Xzenivar]

MMmm 250 gigs of free space' date=' I love you baby *pets computer*[/quote']

 

1.5TB > 250GB

 

Why yes, yes it is

[Freyar]

MMmm 250 gigs of free space' date=' I love you baby *pets computer*[/quote']

 

1.5TB > 250GB

 

Why yes, yes it is

 

I like my 1.5TB...

[Xzenivar]

 

I like my 1.5TB...

 

Excellent, its good to like what we have

[Freyar]

 

I like my 1.5TB...

 

Excellent, its good to like what we have

 

But it's 60% full.. so it's more like 700GB.

[Skye]

6.5TB > 1.5TB hah!

[Gossamer]

6.5TB > 1.5TB hah!

 

*steals some of your TB*

 

*runs away*

 

*looks at her measly 465gb*

[Freyar]

6.5TB > 1.5TB hah!

 

Are you including network with that, or is that all local?

[Skye]

6.5TB > 1.5TB hah!

 

Are you including network with that, or is that all local?

All local

[DAISHI]

MMmm 250 gigs of free space' date=' I love you baby *pets computer*[/quote']

 

1.5TB > 250GB

 

2.5 TB > 1.5 TB