Why does it need so much hard drive space?

[Peanut!!!!]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 80GB for a port of a Vita game? all the requirements are from PC's from 13 years but the hard drive requirements stick out like a sore thumb and it doesn't even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work.

[ᛉᛏneon@stralᚨᛉ]

The game is pretty big, has 8 years of content not even 75% still of what JP ver. has. 12 classes, events cosmetics huge market, many ships and gigantic Alliances. 80GB is actually pretty small even by yesterdays standards, random comparison but I remember Mass Effect 2(2011) was like 25G) and its a sp.

Nowadays Warframe etc 180G+ without DLC is a standard.

PSO2 is not an indie game, maybe look into getting SSD i mean they are affordable enough now, its 2021.
You can even get 4Terra Baraccuda HDD for like under 400$.

Just my 2c

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by Peanut!!!!:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 80GB for a port of a Vita game? all the requirements are from PC's from 13 years but the hard drive requirements stick out like a sore thumb and it doesn't even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work.

PSO2 was released first on the PC and came out the Vita about a year later. I can't recall what size it was around Japanese launch. I don't recall it being 67 GB though. I probably still have the Episode 2 release on a PC in storage somewhere that if it's really bugging me, will find out.

MMOs in general feel like they've gotten a lot bigger in file size.

World of Warcraft used to be about 4 GB around launch. And a few years ago when I last checked, over 100 GB.

Edit: Just went to the Steam page and saw the 80 GB storage. Not sure why I said 67 GB.

[Nope]

That's just 70 for pso2, when ngs release, it will increase to 100gb, then after a few more year, expect roughly 200gb

[Re-oL]

Originally posted by TheSodaman:

PSO2 was released first on the PC and came out the Vita about a year later. I can't recall what size it was around Japanese launch. I don't recall it being 67 GB though. I probably still have the Episode 2 release on a PC in storage somewhere that if it's really bugging me, will find out.

MMOs in general feel like they've gotten a lot bigger in file size.

World of Warcraft used to be about 4 GB around launch. And a few years ago when I last checked, over 100 GB.

Edit: Just went to the Steam page and saw the 80 GB storage. Not sure why I said 67 GB.

PSO2 was around 15 GB at launch, at most 20 GB. That was 2012.

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by Re-oL:

Originally posted by TheSodaman:

PSO2 was released first on the PC and came out the Vita about a year later. I can't recall what size it was around Japanese launch. I don't recall it being 67 GB though. I probably still have the Episode 2 release on a PC in storage somewhere that if it's really bugging me, will find out.

MMOs in general feel like they've gotten a lot bigger in file size.

World of Warcraft used to be about 4 GB around launch. And a few years ago when I last checked, over 100 GB.

Edit: Just went to the Steam page and saw the 80 GB storage. Not sure why I said 67 GB.

PSO2 was around 15 GB at launch, at most 20 GB. That was 2012.

I thought I might have been getting confused with PSU's file size. That 15~20 GB sounds more familiar for PSO2 now that you're mentioning it.

[Neoyoshi]

Still a smaller file-size then Elder Scrolls Online. xD

[Kossy]

Also keep in mind that PSO2JP has ended Vita support and Vita also had to play the game on min settings just to be able to run anything resembling smoothly.

This game is, by no means, a mere handheld port.

[Re-oL]

i believe the size came from the cosmetic and motion data. the amount of cosmetic and emote's motion data are a little bit too much compared to other games. as for vita support. yes it ended i believe last year, but it's already struggling back in 2017(I used to play in vita back then). Like it or not, the amount of file in PSo2 are still reasonable if you look at how many things in it compared to some modern game that big just because uncompressed files or straight up unused 4k/8k graphics.

[RpiesSPIES]

It's not a port of a vita game. That's only what the xbox client was.

[Ezodagrom]

Originally posted by RpiesSPIES:

It's not a port of a vita game. That's only what the xbox client was.

No, even the XBox version isn't a Vita port, the XBox version is based on the PC/PS4 version but probably at a lower resolution.

[Burlokk]

Imagine complaining about HDD space 2021..buy a $50 HDD and you get 2000GB, thats over 20 installs of PSO2

[Tyrone Biggums]

its fine start worrying when its taking more space then warzone

[RpiesSPIES]

Except the difference here is that NGS can be downloaded separate from PSO2 base. So if space is an issue and you don't plan on playing both, then there's your option right there. Base PSO2 has been out for more than 7 years now, and it ONLY taking up around 70gb at that point is a miracle.
Also, the Xbox version is indeed based off of the Vita version of the game. It looks ugly until you turn the shadows down to 1 or 2 iirc because of the downgraded effects.

[Ezodagrom]

Originally posted by RpiesSPIES:

Also, the Xbox version is indeed based off of the Vita version of the game. It looks ugly until you turn the shadows down to 1 or 2 iirc because of the downgraded effects.

Have you ever even seen the vita version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YGV1vuZMY4

The XBox One version is not based on the vita version, period.

[RpiesSPIES]

My only takeaway from that is that the guy in the video has a double cannon and we still don't. F*ING GIVE ME DOUBLE CANNON, PLEASE, SEGA