Hey guys. Just putting this out there. <3 the Giant Bomb Community.
One of my friends is currently in beta and his SWTOR Beta Folder is currently over 36GB in size. That means that throughout his time in beta, he has actually downloaded that much.
Now, I'm not saying the final release will be this big, building software in debug usually makes things bigger as well, or maybe there's a bug currently in the patcher not deleting old unused data, etc... but just consider for a moment that the folder was even half this size on the final build?
That still a ton of gigs you'd have to download.
Another augment against buying a physical copy could be that you will have to download it anyway to play in the "early access" program. Well, this is true, but also what if you ever just need to re-install or get a new computer? At least a disc will get you a long where there and then you'd just have to patch a few gigs most likely.
This isn't a Steam vs. Origin propaganda post or anything either... but if you're into that, then yeah.
If you still have yet to pre-order, you might take into consideration what I've said above, instead of getting a digital only version. Hope that helps someone out with their decision! I personally bought mine from Amazon. Cheers!
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