Why is the update so massive?

[hawkhill]

I was told it was because of the Beyond Light update, but don't you need to buy it first to use it?
Why make us download nearly 50GBs of space for an expansion we can't play?

[Funkymonkey(GER)]

do you even destiny bro?
Do you live on the moon in the deepest hive cave?
How cant you know what happens by now xD

[helix]

It's the same as any live service or MMO - regardless of the fact you may or may not have bought it, once it's released it's part of the game as a whole; so you obviously need to download it in order to play the game. This particular update does a lot to the base game, too.

[J4MESOX4D]

The whole game is 55gb. A huge amount of content was removed. Everyone no matter what they own downloads the entire game but they can only access the content that they paid for. You'll be able to go to the Beyond Light locations but wont be able to play the campaign if you don't own it.

[The Infinite Archiver]

It's a big update, Little Light.

[Morkail]

I don't have time to explain, why i don't have time to explain.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by ƒuηκψm⊕ηκεψ:

do you even destiny bro?
Do you live on the moon in the deepest hive cave?
How cant you know what happens by now xD

I don't live on the moon. Not like in Destiny.
I haven't played the game in a while, as I've been catching up with other games like Far Cry 4, Cloudpunk, and other single player games.
Regardless, I'm just looking for an answer to why we have to download such a massive update. Not someone trying to mock someone for asking questions.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by hawkhill:

Originally posted by ƒuηκψm⊕ηκεψ:

do you even destiny bro?
Do you live on the moon in the deepest hive cave?
How cant you know what happens by now xD

I don't live on the moon. Not like in Destiny.
I haven't played the game in a while, as I've been catching up with other games like Far Cry 4, Cloudpunk, and other single player games.
Regardless, I'm just looking for an answer to why we have to download such a massive update. Not someone trying to mock someone for asking questions.

It's not a massive update - it's the whole game and it's tiny compared to what it used to be.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by hawkhill:

I don't live on the moon. Not like in Destiny.
I haven't played the game in a while, as I've been catching up with other games like Far Cry 4, Cloudpunk, and other single player games.
Regardless, I'm just looking for an answer to why we have to download such a massive update. Not someone trying to mock someone for asking questions.

It's not a massive update - it's the whole game and it's tiny compared to what it used to be.

But I don't even have 30 GBs of space on the hard drive Destiny 2 is on. I'd have to uninstall so many games to make the needed space.
And no, I can't just move those games to a different drive, cause' my other gaming drive also has less than 30 GBs left. I've used up practically 1,500 GBs of space for games alone so far.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by hawkhill:

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

It's not a massive update - it's the whole game and it's tiny compared to what it used to be.

But I don't even have 30 GBs of space on the hard drive Destiny 2 is on. I'd have to uninstall so many games to make the needed space.
And no, I can't just move those games to a different drive, cause' my other gaming drive also has less than 30 GBs left. I've used up practically 1,500 GBs of space for games alone so far.

Delete Destiny 2 and then do a clean install of it. It's 55 in total.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by ;2994292014289779476:

Delete Destiny 2 and then do a clean install of it. It's 55 in total.

Alright. Doing that now. Thanks for the tip!

[Ceph Digital]

2 reasons why the update is so big

1) New DLC which has 2 new environments along with a new elemental type so that means new weapons and such

2) Bungie made some technical changes on their end which means we'll have to reinstall the game completely. While a crappy thing to do for us, it means they can create test builds much quicker.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by K-9:

you always get a complainer

I'm not whining. I was confused. I thought I had to add 50GBs of data to an already massive game.
Now that I know that I just need to reinstall the game, the confusion is gone.

[Pesebrero]

Why doesn't the installer itself deletes the old data first and then downloads the new data? I had to free up 50 gb from nowhere.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by Pesebrero:

Why doesn't the installer itself deletes the old data first and then downloads the new data? I had to free up 50 gb from nowhere.

No idea.

[skot]

wait wait wait, your saying the game updated? and we all have to update it?!?!?!? what??