66 GB!?

"for Michigan" (formichigan) 07/02/2016 at 01:15 • Filed to: elder scrolls online, gaming, steam

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Steam has their summer sale going on right now and Elder Scrolls Online is only $19.99, so I thought I’d pick it up because all my college friends who played Lord of the Rings Online switched over after we graduated and I haven’t gamed with them in about two years.

I’d heard that the download was huge, but I have plenty of space on my computer and I didn’t expect it to be more than 20-25 GB, so I didn’t bother to look up the actual size of the game. Purchased it and started the install: “Game Size: 65.8 GB, Disk Space: 100.2 GB, Download Time: The Rest of Your Natural Life”.

So ESO is going on my old HDD instead of my SSD. Guess that upgrade to a 500 GB SSD is happening sooner than I’d planned...

CB > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 01:34

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I downloaded DOOM the other day. 43 gig download (plus 2.5 gig update), 54 gigs taken up on my drive. Thank goodness we live in a time of cheap storage.

PS9 > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 02:03

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Yep. Games ain’t small no more. Go ahead and nix the SSD upgrade, and think about a traditional drive north of 3TB or so. Then you should be good.

PS9 > CB 07/02/2016 at 02:05

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I still have a shitty 500GB snail drive which is almost full. DOOM kicked like 5 games out of my steam library.

NOT THAT I MISS THEM THOUGH BECAUSE IT WAS SO DAMN WORTH IT

SOCdriver > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 03:04

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1TB SSD drives are getting down there in price. I am thinking on my year end refresh going that route.

Sam > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 03:11

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GTA V is 67GB. Games are getting bigger, bigger drives are getting faster. The universe... is in balance.

for Michigan > PS9 07/02/2016 at 04:19

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I still have 100 GB open on my 256 GB SSD and 90 on my 600 GB HDD, so I don’t think I’ll be needing another 2200 GB anytime soon.

for Michigan > Sam 07/02/2016 at 04:21

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I guess it makes sense with the insane level of detail we have in all of these open world games. Two years ago I thought Skyrim was massive.

Pretty sure Battle for Middle Earth II was the first game I ever owned that took up more than 5 GB, which I thought was unreasonably large at the time. The hard drive I installed that on wouldn’t even hold GTA V or ESO.

for Michigan > CB 07/02/2016 at 04:28

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It just blows my mind that these games are larger than the hard drives of most of the computers I’ve owned.

Jayhawk Jake > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 11:25

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I just built a new PC with a 500gb SSD

It’s been 3 days and I've used half of it

Katsumoto > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 11:36

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I just stuffed a new M2 ssd in my pc. Its 512gb.

I was planning the os, the games i play the most. Then on my 1tb 2.5 inch ssd the other games and lesser used programs.

My hdd is for movies, tv shows, picture and documents going on a 2tb hdd. My last hdd is 4tb and is specifically for back ups.

The av hdd is also network attached for watching elsewhere. Either on the htpc in the living room or chrome cast in the bedroom.

Ive cut cables cord. So i use netflix, Time Warner has that tv on the go, i use my moms for shows I really want to watch. She doesnt use it, so ill use it and basically get free cable.

Other than really catching the news, a few stock market related shows and some stuff here and there, i really dont need cable.

Katsumoto > CB 07/02/2016 at 11:41

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Steam sale huh? I picked it up also lol.

I spent 200 bucks picking up Doom, Witcher, Starbound, Just Cause 3, Tomb Raider, Terraria, and a few others. I try to hold off til a steam sale to pick up games.

Ill get to playing them soon. Quite a few are games Ive wanted to play but been playing games from the last steam sale.

I was surprised when Doom was 36 bucks.

CB > PS9 07/02/2016 at 12:40

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Damn, you need to upgrade. Like I said, storage is cheap now, so go grab a few terabytes of storage (avoid the Seagate 3 TB though, because apparently it has a 50% failure rate at the one year mark. My roommate burned through six of them).

CB > for Michigan 07/02/2016 at 12:41

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The smallest hard drive on a computer that I’ve personally owned has been 160 gigs on a Macbook from about eight years ago. Other family computers have been waaay smaller. It’s crazy how fast storage has increased in size and decreased in price.

for Michigan > CB 07/02/2016 at 14:07

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If memory serves, in middle school I was given an old eMachines with a Pentium III 866, about 256 MB of RAM, and a 30 GB hard drive. It wasn’t exactly bleeding edge at the time, but I thought it was pretty great.

for Michigan > Jayhawk Jake 07/02/2016 at 14:12

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Drive space goes fast. I built mine November before last and went with a Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB because I couldn’t quite justify the jump to 512 GB at the time. It still has 100 GB free because I have a 600 GB HDD that I keep everything besides my OS and programs on.