84 GB is massive for an ARPG

[A]

I mean thats the Size of Elden Ring + DLC lol

[omgitsbees]

its about the same size as Diablo IV, and this isn't even finished yet. Only like half of the campaign is in this.

[Illumina]

ER+DLC is 67GB.

[SheZ]

84gb is only early acces

[Butzie]

lul 84gb is now, expect 2x by the end of next year atleast

[Palad1n]

That's odd, I was able to preload on steam, but when I go to look at the files, it shows nothing in the POE folder. Steam > Steamapps > common > Path of Exile 2 (folder empty).

Do the files not show up on preload?? Just odd.

[Steel]

Originally posted by Malachi:

That's odd, I was able to preload on steam, but when I go to look at the files, it shows nothing in the POE folder. Steam > Steamapps > common > Path of Exile 2 (folder empty).

Do the files not show up on preload?? Just odd.

Yeah they're encrypted in some temp folder, Steam will unpack them to the real folder on launch

[King Hadu]

It's a next gen AAA title that blows D4 out of the water off course it will be 84GB

[Illumina]

Originally posted by Malachi:

That's odd, I was able to preload on steam, but when I go to look at the files, it shows nothing in the POE folder. Steam > Steamapps > common > Path of Exile 2 (folder empty).

Do the files not show up on preload?? Just odd.

preloads are encrypted and kept in another folder.

[Crusaderofni]

Originally posted by Malachi:

That's odd, I was able to preload on steam, but when I go to look at the files, it shows nothing in the POE folder. Steam > Steamapps > common > Path of Exile 2 (folder empty).

Do the files not show up on preload?? Just odd.

They are using the encrypted preload that steam offers. There will be an unpack tomorrow. (make sure to have another 84gb free or else it will take forever to unpack)

[Kromehound]

4K textures take up a ton of space. It's not really surprising that the game is so large given the improvement in graphical quality from PoE.

Diablo 4 had an optional 4K texture pack that was 50GB. It seems like its baked into PoE 2.

[A]

Originally posted by Kromehound:

4K textures take up a ton of space. It's not really surprising that the game is so large given the improvement in graphical quality from PoE.

Should have make 4k textures as DLC like Diablo tbh

[Grimeau]

Ha ha, the first beta (POE1) was only 3gb.

Message from GGG (From: System on Jun 11, 2012, 10:36:24 PM)

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[Last Jackdaw]

its Current year guys . Games are bigger than a few kilobiytes. Geeze.

[lil_menor7]

Do they even bothered in optimizing game files? Looks like this a activision move right here.

[Pencillus Sedatus]

Originally posted by Malachi:

That's odd, I was able to preload on steam, but when I go to look at the files, it shows nothing in the POE folder. Steam > Steamapps > common > Path of Exile 2 (folder empty).

Do the files not show up on preload?? Just odd.

steam will have to uncompress the compressed files, preload simply means you download the compressed files and will uncompress on release date