15 GB Patch on PS4

FMarin83

After reading about the stuff going on at launch at PC I chose to wait til it came out on PS4. A year later it seems it hasn't gotten much better.

NDwarf

I was wonder what this is about? 15 gig, 3 hour + download for a patch? I hope this is not the norm ??? I didn't see any news about this just "here's 15 gigs to download, enjoy."

phairdon

Devve wrote: »

no this rediculus. this is almost the entire games file size on pc

The game file size for pc is approximately 42gb.

Kylarstern91

Wow....

urkonse

15gb.....these "hotfixes" are even worse than warframe`s.....i have only 60gb free space left....

pmitchell126b16_ESO

[snip] A 15GB PATCH?
[edited for profanity bypass]

Elsonso

mikey27 wrote: »

15gb is this serious???
Total is now 70gb for one game we only get 500gb and mine is under 50 already...

This is not cumulative. Once the patch is installed, the patch files are deleted.

Also, the patch likely contains a lot more than what is included in the patch notes. The patch notes should be considered more of a highlights. They can also include future material for DLC and crown store in these patches so that they can be turned on at a later date without downloading more material.

FMarin83

I will say the world is huge.

lifeisflimsy

PLEASE tell me this isn't true. I have terribly slow internet and 15 gig will take me 3 days to download. If this is the norm for this game, I'll have to updgrade my internet faster than I thought.

Heromofo

STOP THE ANGER TRAIN I NEEDS TA GET OFF!

Lol guys and gals i normally jump on the anger train with things like this but seriously i think there is alot more to this than meets the eye.

We are expecting update 7 and imperial city very shortly this patch may just be laying the ground for all of it behind closed doors.

Triskwood

15 GB for a ..patch? I'm sorry.. ? What the.. ***?

You expect this for an expansion.. not some bug fixes and changes. Can we please get a ZOS post explaining why this is so big?

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

15 gig is not the size of the game on PC. My ESO folder is over 85 gigs. This is normal for PC users. Our last incermental patch was 6 gigs and didnt really fix much of anything.

EtheralWolf

mine says 6 hours xD i might put my ps4 in rest mode and hope for the best

MissBizz

frenchyuk86 wrote: »

Missbizz that's all well but going off the patch notes there's hardly anything...at least not 15gb worth

@frenchyuk86 Make sure to put the @ symbol in front if you're talking to someone, so they get a notification

There could be a lot of work behind those little bits of notes, we have no idea. For all we know they had to edit things for each invisible NPC . I'm speaking from experience on PC patches, we have experienced some abnormally large patches when the notes were little, and then it slims down and like last week our patch was only 2.8GB.

Duerdal

This patch is telling me I have 40hrs for download, Christ I've got a super fast line and should do this in no time. What the hell is with this speed.

FMarin83

Heromofo wrote: »

STOP THE ANGER TRAIN I NEEDS TA GET OFF!

Lol guys and gals i normally jump on the anger train with things like this but seriously i think there is alot more to this than meets the eye.

We are expecting update 7 and imperial city very shortly this patch may just be laying the ground for all of it behind closed doors.

This could be fine, if they would just come out and let us know. We are all making assumptions at this point while we wait for it to download.

nastuug

mikey27 wrote: »

15gb is this serious???
Total is now 70gb for one game we only get 500gb and mine is under 50 already...

Edit: got 31gb on my console before i update...

Sonys fault why didnt they sell 1tb/2tb systems at launch, i assumed games would be 20/25gb max so you could get 15+ games, (and they would still be tight imo..)

Games will progressively grow in size as time goes on. I'm honestly not sure why the "next-gen" consoles weren't released with larger storage capacities. Then again, I'm also not sure why they shipped without SSD's, but y'know.

mikey27

lordrichter wrote: »

mikey27 wrote: »

15gb is this serious???
Total is now 70gb for one game we only get 500gb and mine is under 50 already...

This is not cumulative. Once the patch is installed, the patch files are deleted.

Also, the patch likely contains a lot more than what is included in the patch notes. The patch notes should be considered more of a highlights. They can also include future material for DLC and crown store in these patches so that they can be turned on at a later date without downloading more material.

Ahh so we are downloading future crown items so they can activate them without a download? Much like the lioness? Nice idea i guess.

Wish they did these updates at 1-2 in the morning so i can wake up to it pre installed, but meh.

peej65

*** take or what! Why release a game that's not ready. Then have over 30gb of data to download in first two weeks. What a joke!

Heromofo

FMarin83 wrote: »

Heromofo wrote: »

STOP THE ANGER TRAIN I NEEDS TA GET OFF!

Lol guys and gals i normally jump on the anger train with things like this but seriously i think there is alot more to this than meets the eye.

We are expecting update 7 and imperial city very shortly this patch may just be laying the ground for all of it behind closed doors.

This could be fine, if they would just come out and let us know. We are all making assumptions at this point while we wait for it to download.

Yeah but i come from the pc side we had heaps of updates that were alot bigger than the patch note this just feels right.


But then again my tin foil hat is hanging out to dry atm so you never know.

Marcd23

Does anybody know the size of the patch xbox received yesterday? I personally don't think this is right

mikey27

Marcd23 wrote: »

Does anybody know the size of the patch xbox received yesterday? I personally don't think this is right

+1 was about to ask this, dont recall them getting 15gb.

ElricFrancis

Let's face it they should have told us a patch was forth coming. We were thinking an hour or two of maintenance and we got a 15 gig patch. Did they hire the ex employees from the Defiance game? This is VERY sloppy communications.

urkonse

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

15 gig is not the size of the game on PC. My ESO folder is over 85 gigs. This is normal for PC users. Our last incermental patch was 6 gigs and didnt really fix much of anything.

6gb is a bit different than 15gb.... , i would be happy with 6gb every week but 15gb...no ty

jaredhatter01_ESO

If this is going to be the norm on PS4, I hope they let us know. I will return the game instead of downloading 16 gigs everytime they patch on the slow PSN server speeds.

pmitchell126b16_ESO

-Poor Notification
-Poor Service


nuff said

frenchyuk86

ElricFrancis wrote: »

Let's face it they should have told us a patch was forth coming. We were thinking an hour or two of maintenance and we got a 15 gig patch. Did they hire the ex employees from the Defiance game? This is VERY sloppy communications.

News section on forums isn't even updated..

Heromofo

LariahHunding

There are a lot of other games. This is the kind of crap that makes me go play them and not return.

Gandrhulf_Harbard

Devve wrote: »

no this rediculus. this is almost the entire games file size on pc

Er no.

When I downloaded the game for PC is was just about 36GB, and 2 days later there was a 21GB patch.

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