As we near the end of the PS4 and Xbox One generation, games have gradually gotten bigger and better over the years – for better and worse. Gamers have dozens of massive Triple-AAA quality games to choose from, but as graphics have improved and games have gotten bigger, so have the download sizes. Unless you’re using an external hard drive to help solve storage issues, it’s likely that you can’t keep all of the games on your hard drive that you’d like to, as there simply isn’t enough space.
Call of Duty: Warzone, a megapopular free-to-play hit, isn’t helping things. Since releasing in March, Warzone has seen regular updates that have improved the game – but that also have caused the file size to balloon. On Tuesday, players discovered a new 1.21 update patch to download – adding another 30 GB of data to an already massive game.
The new 1.21 update patch for Call of Duty #ModernWarfare & #Warzone is now available to be downloaded.
– 20.2GB on PS4
– 31GB on Xbox One
– 30GB on PCGo ahead and get those downloads going! Also, here are the patch notes for those interested: https://t.co/nJcS6lZpEY pic.twitter.com/7RHSFUx61W
— Warzone INTEL (@WarzoneFPS) May 19, 2020
Many players were understandably annoyed.
Waking up to see there’s another 30Gb CoD update pic.twitter.com/isB1P24eO0
— Kingdom Zebedee (@kingdomzebedee) May 19, 2020
i love this new era of video games where the patches are 30gb in size, but you cant guarantee any of the content in it will still be there in 3 months time
— laynaw (@_laynaw) May 19, 2020
30GB update for Warzone eh? That's that getting uninstalled.
— Andi Hamilton (@andihero) May 19, 2020
Warzone patches
Original game : 100 gb
Patches: extra 300 tbs
Today’s patch: You have to let the soldiers live in ur house— Griffin: Remake (@griffinpdavis) May 19, 2020
31GB Warzone patch for Xbox One… pic.twitter.com/bEV6SyV3Uj
— Achilles (@Mr_Achilles) May 19, 2020
Wait a second…are you tellin me that @InfinityWard wants yet ANOTHER 30GB from a patch? Warzone now takes over 200GB of my PS4's storage.
No. Absolutely not. Uninstalled. Deleted. Cancelled. Goodbye.
— Jacob (@indiejacob) May 19, 2020
Warzone should be standalone to help keep file sizes lower.
Also, we need to figure out how to keep update sizes down in general.
30gb isn't a patch. That's a whole new game with 4k assets lol. https://t.co/s8tj0UXcH6
— Adam (@LAGTVNovaWar) May 19, 2020
Another 30 gb update for warzone, I’m going back to Fortnite bruv pic.twitter.com/9Gg62uT4Jz
— Mugiwara ☠️ (@adot_ahmed) May 19, 2020
My Ps4 when it realizes the new Warzone update is 30 gb pic.twitter.com/xcIw4nMcn8
— Kyle (@kenright40) May 19, 2020
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