See game download/install sizes before purchase.

[Silverware]

Just want to be able to see a game's size before I purchase it. It would be nice and easy to do, and would allow us to make reasonable choices about purchases when we are faced with limited bandwidth.

[Ferret]

I'd vote for this one too.

[Silicon Vampire]

They are listed in system requirements for each game on the store pages.

[«Gғм» Kid Of The Century]

Originally posted by Silicon Vampire:

They are listed in system requirements for each game on the store pages.

Isn't that the installed game size? I think that albeit generally similar, the download size might even be quite smaller in certain cases.

[Silverware]

Yeah, the installed size is all well and good. But most of us don't give a crap about the size of a game once installed now that HDD space is in the cent per gigabyte range.
It's the download size thats important.

[Jamebonds1]

This is not your min system requirements by download size. System requirments in bottom of store page is. If your hard drive have less than 20 GB free space. Delete some file.

[tomk1]

I would like to know the compressed download size package as on 15G limited usage plan, Downloaded L4D internet usage was 4.16GB for 5.8GB disk usage.
I only just click onto the fact that the game spec size when you go to install & download is not the steam download internet usage size. It's important when trying use every gig when on limited plans. Over a gig has now gone unused as I thought I hit my limit for the month, and could of used that to download another game.

Some clarity on download size when downloading would be helpfull, as have a few 8+Gig games to download, nevermind a 35G, with the actuall download size this would allow a strategy to squeeze the most out of the data plan.

In short:
steam download package size NOT just the game disk usage size

[Lord Gorzul]

agree 100%, you got my vote. I wanna know download size

[Ameno]

Might help.

[Random Reference #98]

Originally posted by -=Silverware=-:

Yeah, the installed size is all well and good. But most of us don't give a crap about the size of a game once installed now that HDD space is in the cent per gigabyte range.
It's the download size thats important.

Sigh.
The installed size will ALWAYS be larger than the download size. This is because the game needs extra room for the files it may need to copy durring install. The listing under requirements is the maximum size of the download and it is usually much larger than the download size, many games are half the size when downloading for the reason stated above.

[aiusepsi]

Actually the major reason for the install size being larger than the download size is that the download is compressed. Steam's designed in such a way that copying files is minimised during install.

To address the main point: all the data exists to specify the download size on the Store page, after all, the client is calculating it somehow. The only wrinkle is that it can potentially vary depending on package (some Store packages may contain extra content), language and low-violence content, which could potentially make things a little trickier because the Store might not know exactly what settings your client will end up using.

[orwell]

i agree !