Destiny Update v1.0.3 (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, November 17, 2014, 18:29 (3451 days ago) @ Kermit

I went and looked and I can't seem to find it. I know you said something about 2.44 GB, and I saw that, but I really doubt that's the same for every platform, just like the game itself and the initial install were all different.

According to a mutual friend, it's 1.07 GB for the 360. I updated my original post.

Thank you, I found that out just before I read this (I deleted Reach's Anniversary maps because I have them on a disk).

Plus that's almost half the size of the current installed content, that's DLC-sized, that makes it seem like they're forcing everyone to download the DLC whether they can access it or not, and they wouldn't do something that du-- no, I know this... they would probably do something that dumb, because if I'm playing this long and jumping through hoops I'll probably keep playing after this. Bungie, now you've got me using Cody Miller logic, are you happy?

I doubt that they are dumb, but the likely explanation is that it's not really possible to continue to have a shared open world game without everyone having the same world. Barriers to those who don't buy the DLC are easier to pull off than making different versions of the world compatible.

and you know, it might not sting as much if they explained it like that

I don't know that because no one that actually has any say in it has said so. (I am getting so fucking sick of this lack of communication and people just being OK with it. [To be fair, it's not just Bungie, it's not just game developers, it's everyone, I detest this tight-lipped part of our culture that I discover more and more every year.]) Maybe I'm edging into unreasonable territory, but I have sobering news: there are people out there far less reasonable than me and even dumber than me, and they buy things too (and they vote, but I don't want to give anyone nightmares).

I might actually agree with the parts of this I understand, but again, your failure to understand their intentions or their failure to supply specifics which they could not have known in advance of your purchase does not equal being tight lipped.

Even just accurate to within an order of magnitude would be nice, if it's going to be megabytes, tens of megabytes, hundreds of megabytes, gigabytes, tens of gigabytes, whatever. I expect they knew that at release, if not by the beta or even the alpha.

Now I have to wait and see if this is actually downloading and will install properly, I don't even get a progress bar for this part. fun fun fun!