Everything has always been downloaded to your computer when it came out, no matter what they call the content. It's an MMO, everyone always has their client patched to the latest version, no matter what they've paid for.


And patching large games generally takes a lot of free HD space, for scratch files & work space... that's nothing new either.

I bet all the people who bought it on a CD feel silly.

Well, that's a whole different topic in the modern gaming industry. It was pretty annoying to buy Fallout 4 in the store, and end up having to download most of it. Not as bad as the boxed games you can buy that don't even have a disc in them, but instead just have a piece of paper with a download code on it.


(Although, come to think of it.... even back ten years ago, when I bought WoW expansions on disc, they still needed to download a good chunk of data. Because more edits/patches/fixes were made between the time the discs were pressed and when the expansion launched.)

It's hard to tell, since the downloader goes through multiple stages. I do remember that the first bit was 7GB.

Thanks. Feeling a little foolish now. I guess I gotta slow down my reading.

You may need more HDD/SSD space for installation than the 7-9GB download size, but I'm not certain. What I can say for sure is that my game folder is using 56GB after the update.