Download limitFollow

According to the minimum system requirements for the PS3 version, you need at least 12GB to play ARR. There are patches that occasionally get applied as bugs are fixed and new content is made available.

The initial download itself is 6.5 GB or so (it's compressed).

Edited, Aug 30th 2013 6:59pm by Xoie

Hmmm, do you mean 12GB which will be installed onto my PS3's hard drive from the disc? Or a 12GB download coming through the internet?

Cheers!

What type of ISP do you have? If it's satellite or using cellphone towers you will experience a large amount of delay/lag that may make the game unplayable.

Haha no thankfully not! I've got an ethernet connection at a speed of about 7Mbps. We got our broadband deal a long time ago and it is need of updating to remove the download limit, which we should either be getting unlimited or boosted up to 40GB per month fairly soon hopefully.

That link you gave says the requirement is 12GB on the hard drive which I presume is an install which the disk contains so wouldn't take any of my download limit up? But once you start playing I presume it must be downloading stuff all the time? Sorry, I'm an MMORPG noob! Are you guys playing on the PC?

If you have a physical copy of the game and can install it directly to your machine, you should be able to play the game. The actual bandwidth that MMOs use is very small, when compared to streaming services like video or audio. The only time you MIGHT run into trouble is when there are big updates, like maybe expansions, but it's rare for them to be super huge.

If this has a community like its predecessor XI, then your LS/FC will pretty much be your family. They will be there when you are struggling through the beginning, when you get that piece of coveted shiny you had your eyes on, your virtual wedding, as well as offline or on other games as well. Heck its my friends from XI that sent me spams shouting they need a Chef back for the group, and I haven't seen them since... several years ago until like 2-3 of us got a PS3 and was buddies on that for co-op games.

With good friends, everything's awesome, with lousy ones... well we all know how that goes down. Anyone remember when there's a huge aggro train running towards the zone past your party because of RMT shenanigans on XI and your whm friend took one for the team, HP'd sucked down the 10% exp loss as well as teleport and/or chocobo fees to get back to raise your group and then you all stayed that extra hour or so to get back their lost EXP? Well, hoping we don't have RMT caused aggro trains, but we still have the close knit kind of community in XIV, that was what made XI so awesome.

Edited, Aug 30th 2013 8:08pm by cocodojo

Edited, Aug 30th 2013 8:09pm by cocodojo

Hey, don't hog all the noobiness yourself! I'm stuck waiting to get the game myself too lol.

Well, I can buy a physical copy, just for now money is tied up for end of the month bills, so once that clears, and no pending bills are looming dangerously nearby, then I could splurge on the noobsauce. Priorities... they sure make gaming life more complicated.