Doodzin Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Today's "small patch" is 200 megs! Let me pull out my walking cane and corn cob pipe for moment... I remember the good old days when your entire hard disk was 75 megs and 4 megs of memory was considered "good." Who else thinks 200 megs is not a "small" patch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghobe Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 /handraise And for the notes they're giving it really seems enormous...I really can't see a small fix(character deletion) and an update to the ticket system being 200 mb...they're holding out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahlaviing Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Oh that did make me laugh lool, way to make us all feel old haha. I agree 200MB is without a fact not small, it's OK for users like me who have fibre optic but I know people with much slower net speed and to have to download that just for a few fixes that failed! It's really a hassle. I remember the time when roughly 700MB was the standard game size (talking about the early 2000s) then they slowly crept up to over 1GB and then 4.7 then something like over 7 which is still common, but now we're getting games that are 10BG and beyond!. Sorry got sidetracked there, I'm wondering if there are other fixes as such not mentioned in he patch notes, 200MB is too big a size for those minuscule features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanak Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I remember the good old days when your entire hard disk was 75 megs and 4 megs of memory was considered "good." If that's the "old days"...... ..... You just made me feel... older than old? Hell, I still have a computer with 1mb ram and a 20mb hd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalonSaber Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Today's "small patch" is 200 megs! Let me pull out my walking cane and corn cob pipe for moment... I remember the good old days when your entire hard disk was 75 megs and 4 megs of memory was considered "good." Who else thinks 200 megs is not a "small" patch? you probably think a 100 dollars is a lot of money too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teambff Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Today's "small patch" is 200 megs! Let me pull out my walking cane and corn cob pipe for moment... I remember the good old days when your entire hard disk was 75 megs and 4 megs of memory was considered "good." Who else thinks 200 megs is not a "small" patch? copycat! i already said that in another thread. but uhhh yeah, i agree. 200mb is hardly small. small is an 8mb mp3 file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrellaris Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 yeah okay, comparing this to ages long gone, would make this a huge *** patch. However for todays standard, this is small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiroRX Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 yes its small. i carry nearly 50 gigs everywhere i go in my pocket. so 200mb? a pittance. not even walking around data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimex Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 200mb is about 30 minutes of an average movie file. I agree about when computers had 200mb hard drive, but considering this game is about 18Gig, 200mb seems less significant x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teambff Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) 200mb is about 30 minutes of an average movie file. I agree about when computers had 200mb hard drive, but considering this game is about 18Gig, 200mb seems less significant x there are actual small patches/updates that take like 1min or even less than a minute. that would technically be "small". a 200mb patch would be more along the lines of medium imo. Edited April 13, 2012 by teambff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltybill Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 why, in my day, sonny, our patches came on floppy disks! and that was a lot! sigh... as an art guy, I've seen my file sizes increase from 10mb to over a gig now... so 200mb for anything seems like a drop in a bucket. >) all about perspective I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kogarvandalin Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 It's relatively small to today's standards. And there's plenty of examples of things people take for granted that grandparents now a days had to do without technology. IE hand wash laundry. Technology it updates and adapts so should you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master-Nala Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I laughed at this too. You could probably fit whole game libraries from the 1990s in 200 MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vellusix Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Geriatric thread is geriatric. Get with the times ppl plz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor_Idiot Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 My C64 didn't even HAVE a hard disk; the biggest storage we got was on tape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elkard Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 No, 640 k was considered good--no harddrives, just DOS and big ole floppys: two or more drives and constntly switching.... Of course I learned on tube omputers we had to program by pushing buttons for 1's and 0's in 32 bit words. Monochrome green and yellow screens. But the games were fun. (No, no...they...weren't). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentili Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 i used to have a compac scsi server with brick sized 1gig hd's. the chain was filled with 6 drives 4mg video card i got it to run NT. i filled it with mp3's that i had to download from websites. you can imagine how much time that took with a 56k modem. if u used to zip mp3's to 3.5 floppy's in college ur might be an old fuddy duddy!! lulz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraBob_Fl Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I remember when having 32 megs of RAM was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennWippenberg Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 We're in an age where terabyte HDDs come standard in store purchased PCs and you want to complain that 200 megs is "big?" BTW, 5 minutes into my download and I'm 40% complete. THE HORROR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veyss Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I remember when having 32 megs of RAM was amazing. That's not so long ago. Way after 40 MB HDDs were amazing... and of course long after 5 1/4'' Floppy Disks were amazing... and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realranger Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 some of you are stuck in a time machine. Op are you in this video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivetcrow Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 My C64 didn't even HAVE a hard disk; the biggest storage we got was on tape! Nor did my Timex Sinclair ZX-81. Tape machine to back things up as well, and boy was I excited when my family bought the 16K (not Meg) RAM cube to plug into the back of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terminova Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Today's "small patch" is 200 megs! Let me pull out my walking cane and corn cob pipe for moment... I remember the good old days when your entire hard disk was 75 megs and 4 megs of memory was considered "good." Who else thinks 200 megs is not a "small" patch? 200 MB is insignificant these days. Might as well complain that a 1k text file takes up too much space on a 1.3 MB floppy disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaggedOne Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 200 MB....lol !!! First hard disk I ever used was attached to my Apple ][ development machine at work. It was an Apple Profile, it was external, about the size of two loaves of bread placed side-by-side and squashed down (it had 4 lil rubber feet!!). It held 5 - read it...FIVE - megabytes and cost $2000. We bought all we could get our hands on and were glad to get em. We started developing software for the IBM PC when it came out. The first ones had full-height single-density floppy drives that held 140 Kb each iirc. We continued to develop on the Apple ][s and cross-compiled for the PC platform. Boy, were we amazed a bit later when IBM released the [i]PC XT[/i]...a hard disk that held a whole TEN MEGABYTES, and it's inside the system case....OMG!!! We tossed all our Apple ][s...the old Profiles became door stops, and the rest is history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testszag Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 why, in my day, sonny, our patches came on floppy disks! and that was a lot! sigh... as an art guy, I've seen my file sizes increase from 10mb to over a gig now... so 200mb for anything seems like a drop in a bucket. >) all about perspective I guess. yup, commodore 64. floppy disks, and part of one the first infrawebs, even though it wasn't called that. can't remeber what term they used. hell, i remember my first "real" computer, using aol and dial up. state of the art. only took 3 min to download a pic. good times, good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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