Starcraft 2 Beta is taking way too much space!

[Crazy_Jonny]

Not even close to redownloading the game for each patch. Regardless:
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html...21561&sid=5000
"When the second phase of beta begins shortly before the release of the game it will include a new patch. This patch will be removing all previous version folders. Any replays created during the first phase of the beta will no longer be viewable once the next phase begins. "

Well ok, its 7.6 gb for all patches, so each patch is ~600mb. Regardless, it looks like we won't have to worry about space anymore.

[killermofo]

Even 32GB is a monstrous amount if you have a decent size collection of MP3, video, or game collection.

32 GB is child's play if you have a 1TB HD, which is already becoming relatively inexpensive. Even if sc2 w/ replays is around that size that's less than 3% of total HD space available.

[Nicol Bolas]

Even 32GB is a monstrous amount if you have a decent size collection of MP3, video, or game collection.

You can get more harddrives, you know. I have 3.5TB of storage space on a dedicated WHS machine. My main computers have 500GB drives each, solely for local storage and games.

[Cotcan]

The size won't really matter. Beta is going to go in a couple days, then come back. Once the game is released, you won't need the beta, you can't really use it. This is beta, its only so big because they are still trying things out.

[Maul]

If you're seriously concerned that a game is taking up 10GB of space then you need to update your computer or storage capacity at least. This is what happens when time moves on, technology moves forward. :P

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136517
$59.99
800GB
7.5 cents per gigabyte.

Therefore 10gb = 75c worth of storage. Shesh...

[TheEconomist]

Why do you keep bringing up irrelevant facts like "you can get more space because HDs are cheap" or "There's HDs bigger than 500GB". I already agreed with these statement before they were said in my first post in this topic. What does that have to do with the statement that "At this rate, a 500GB will be crippled (NOTE: Not filled up) by these patches"?

All I'm saying is that 32GB is nothing to sneeze at even on a 500GB. I never said it would somehow make it impossible to have other things on it.

[Cheesenium]

Well guys, i have tried deleting all the older versions. The game still works but older replays will not play. I have played like 10 games on it and no problems so far.

I wont want to get a brand new hard disk because im waiting for funds to replace my laptop. 9.77GB wont be a problem for you, but it will be a problem with other people who have limited space,ie: me.

[Maul]

Why do you keep bringing up irrelevant facts like "you can get more space because HDs are cheap" or "There's HDs bigger than 500GB". What does that have to do with the statement that "At this rate, a 500GB will be crippled (NOTE: Not filled up) by these patches"?

It means that if you're concerned that if you have a 500GB HDD and a game using 2% of that is too much then the game isn't your concern, your personal space requirements are not being met by your current hardware and there's very cheap ways out there to drastically increase your storage capacity to meet those needs. The fact that SC2 is 10GB is the only irrelevant fact.

[don]

WC3 has community made version changers that do what the SC2 BETA client is doing.
This is just a case of Blizzard taking cues from the community for game features.

I'm glad its integrated so i don't have to find an app that does it and I would gladly trade disk space for the feature.

OT, its good to know that we can remove the files without breaking the game.

I bet if you compress the files in 1 ZIP or RAR file, it would shrink down nicely. There should be lots of repeating code in each version which compression programs love.

[TheEconomist]

It means that if you're concerned that if you have a 500GB HDD and a game using 2% of that is too much then the game isn't your concern, your personal space requirements are not being met by your current hardware and there's very cheap ways out there to drastically increase your storage capacity to meet those needs. The fact that SC2 is 10GB is the only irrelevant fact.

I wasn't referring to your comments but if you're aiming them at mine then they are completely irrelevant. All I'm saying is that a 32GB game is ridiculous and would take up a large portion of the HD that would have a noticeable impact on a 500GB HD if you have MP3 and other things. If StarCraft 2 weren't the kind of game that you always keep installed then it would be a non-issue after all Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 both take up almost 30GB in and of themselves and I see no problem with that. 'Nuff said