Huge Wolfenstein Download Infuriates But Doesn’t Deter Pirates

[shamu726]

When the PC version of Wolfenstein: The New Order dropped onto file-sharing sites last week, eager pirates had a surprise in store. Not only a great game but a staggeringly humongous 43.65 gb download. But while tempers frayed for some Wolfenstein still achieved the biggest game swarm of the week, and downloads in excess of 100,000.

Just how far we’ve come on the bandwidth front in the past few decades is astonishing.

In the early 80s the 8-bit demo scene manage to thrive with pedestrian transfers of 75 characters per second. By 2002 in the heyday of Kazaa, users still on dial-up were pondering whether an awful 28mb cam rip of 28 Days Later would be worth the herculean effort.

These days, some users are still happily gobbling up 700mb YIFY movie rips but for others bandwidth has become so plentiful that only multi-gig Blu-ray releases will suffice. However, there is a point at which even the swarthiest of pirates begin to complain.

Wolfenstein: The New Order is the long-awaited re-imagining of the cult classic game of the same name and as expected upon its release last week it quickly turned up on torrent sites. However, its huge size had some potential downloaders wondering whether to bother or not.

“43GB? holy fuck,” exclaimed Pirate Bay user sealtmx2.

“I have to uninstall like 10 games to play this shit!!” added ucci4life.

Reports suggest that the massive file size is due to uncompressed graphics textures but it comes as no surprise that some believe that annoying downloaders was in the developers’ minds. Bethesda had deliberately padded out the game with junk as a clever anti-piracy deterrent, some concluded.

While extremely unlikely, for some the big download was simply too much.

“43GB, the hell? No thanks, guess I will buy this when the price drops to £29.99,” said user u2konline.

The impatience in torrent sites comments sections was interesting to behold, with several downloaders reporting the abandoning of the download in favor of paying for the game instead. For them, waiting two or three days (according to times estimated by their torrent client at the time) was simply too much.

“I was gonna get this torrent but I saw the size and how long it would take me to download it, I said fuck it I’m getting it from Steam,” said user Caxtilteca. “Took me 2 hours to download 40GB including the day one update.”

Part of the problem, especially when the torrents were fresh, is that due to the time to completion there were a tiny amount of seeders (users with the whole game) compared to leechers (those still downloading). The effect of that was highlighted by speed157.

“38 hours later I finally finish my download and have uploaded 122.15 GB,” he wrote.

But while the huge download clearly deterred some, it appears to have had no serious effect on the number of downloaders overall. Although its size clearly had something to do with it, Wolfenstein: The New Order had the largest torrent swarms of any game last week and by the weekend more than 100,000 pirates had endured the wait to grab themselves a copy.

Reports on exactly how long people had to wait varied, from a few hours to a few days. However, it’s still interesting to see how that desire for content right here and right now led some to the doors of Steam or retailers when they became more convenient than the pirate option. For once and for a few, the boot seemed to have switched to the other foot.

Source: TorrentFreak

[The Owl]

Rubbish had it over a week

[mastershake]

i know many people who downloaded it and it was pretty quick and painless. when you have a premium service its a super fast download. i didnt get it because it didnt interest me much but i know a lot of people who did.

[jimbojet2011]

Got the game in one day ;-) via Skidrow

[BookCase]

I looked at the size and thought, "Wow, 40 Gigs!" Then, I clicked download. Got the Reloaded version in a few hours, already beat the game twice and seeded 4 times. Great game, well worth it! :showoff:

I'll even buy it once the price drops.

Edited May 27, 2014 by DocBob1939

[Arizin]

43 GB? Pirating it is tough on users! I'll buy it on Greenmangaming as they give good deals

[BBs]

Who uses torrents to download a 43GB File?

Seriously, not only are you at risk of getting caught, but it also takes too long time. Just get a cheap premium account and download it with fullspeed from a filehoster....

It took me like 2 hours to download it from bannedhost.to. Too sad i always download these shit but then im just too lazy to install and delete it after few days :lmao:

[#return 1337]

I downloaded it off a filelocker. Took about a day. Wasn't worth it. 43GB for an 8 hour game? Watchdogs is 18GBs, and I've been playing it for 3 days now, almost non-stop.

[ShEsHy]

Who uses torrents to download a 43GB File?

Seriously, not only are you at risk of getting caught, but it also takes too long time. Just get a cheap premium account and download it with fullspeed from a filehoster....

It took me like 2 hours to download it from bannedhost.to. Too sad i always download these shit but then im just too lazy to install and delete it after few days :lmao:

Over 100k people apparently. Paying for a premium filelocker doesn't magically decrease the file size, it just means you pay for the ability to pirate. If you want speed without paying, just go private trackers.

[Dodel]

43gb download, 50 gb unpacked, not much in the way of compression.

[SnakeMasteR]

I downloaded it off a filelocker. Took about a day. Wasn't worth it. 43GB for an 8 hour game? Watchdogs is 18GBs, and I've been playing it for 3 days now, almost non-stop.

LMAO, Wolfenstein is a Ego-Shooter, Watch_Dogs an Open World game! Besides that, it is the technique behind the engine used in Wolfenstein that made the game that big, the same technique that has been used in Rage, Megatexturing. I can see the game with a different engine cut in half and it could have the same size like Watch_Dogs or even less. If the main reason was to scare away pirates they did a good job, in failing. The only idiots now are those that paid for the game and need to spend a week downloading that shit. Some of them are maybe still downloading since release some days ago and they still will find hundreds of low-res textures in the game here and there that look like borrowed from Wolfenstein 3D, they should have made it 100 GB or 150 GB or even 200 GB to make it look perfect and underline quality reasons for using the megatexturing technique and it's a shame they haven't. Now everyone thinks it just was to make pirates skip.

[jamesbond]

Got the game in one day ;-) via Skidrow

bitcoin miner included? good luck.

Who uses torrents to download a 43GB File?

Seriously, not only are you at risk of getting caught, but it also takes too long time. Just get a cheap premium account and download it with fullspeed from a filehoster....

It took me like 2 hours to download it from bannedhost.to. Too sad i always download these shit but then im just too lazy to install and delete it after few days :lmao:

what's that got to do with the size? took me ~20 mins to download via torrent... just limited by my bandwith.

not to mention i haven't heard of anyone getting "caught" for downloading a games. it might be different for movies, music etc.

[BBs]

what's that got to do with the size? took me ~20 mins to download via torrent... just limited by my bandwith.

not to mention i haven't heard of anyone getting "caught" for downloading a games. it might be different for movies, music etc.

Hmm, i always thought torrent dl speed was slow, but i won't test it. In Germany ppl get love letters from copyright holders very fast when downloading illegal stuff from torrent, filehosters on the other hand are totally safe.

Edited May 28, 2014 by BBs

[BookCase]

Who uses torrents to download a 43GB File?

Seriously, not only are you at risk of getting caught, but it also takes too long time. Just get a cheap premium account and download it with fullspeed from a filehoster....

It took me like 2 hours to download it from bannedhost.to. Too sad i always download these shit but then im just too lazy to install and delete it after few days :lmao:

I do and I downloaded it in just a few hours. And, if you protect yourself, you should be okay. I have great internet speed, when it is working. I pay my ISP for speed.

I still play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. And the matches are always full which blows my mind. Great classic game that came out way before its time.

And, TrueCombat never gets old. True Combat Elite

Edited May 28, 2014 by DocBob1939

[jimbojet2011]

Got the game in one day ;-) via Skidrow

bitcoin miner included? good luck.

Who uses torrents to download a 43GB File?

Seriously, not only are you at risk of getting caught, but it also takes too long time. Just get a cheap premium account and download it with fullspeed from a filehoster....

It took me like 2 hours to download it from bannedhost.to. Too sad i always download these shit but then im just too lazy to install and delete it after few days :lmao:

what's that got to do with the size? took me ~20 mins to download via torrent... just limited by my bandwith.

not to mention i haven't heard of anyone getting "caught" for downloading a games. it might be different for movies, music etc.

Just bull to keep the downloaders away ( wake up dude )!

[Rok]

I looked at it, wow 43GB file. Just moved out for future download, as and when I have the bandwidth to download such huuuuuuuuuge file. On my current speed, it at least a month to download (i.e. 12 hours a download).

[jamesbond]

Just bull to keep the downloaders away ( wake up dude )!

ehhh no. i'm definitely the wrong person for paranoia, believe me. but the spreaded bitcoin miner is a fact. i'm not saying you got it.

but personally i would avoid any of those fake skidrow* sites.

Hmm, i always thought torrent dl speed was slow, but i won't test it. In Germany ppl get love letters from copyright holders very fast when downloading illegal stuff from torrent, filehosters on the other hand are totally safe.

well, speed depends of course on the seeders. torrent might have been slow years ago, nowadays lots of people seed with gbit lines (seed boxes). unlike emule a long time ago. :sleep:

sure, downloads from filehosters are more safe, since you aren't spreading the stuff yourself. but then, as a german, you might know "boerse". how about the uploaders there? they offer tons of illegal stuff... how many of them were traced?

i do avoid seeding movies/music, as said. and never seed more than necessary. but sometimes you see some p2p people sharing their whole mp3 folder containing thousands of files. :blink: :uhuh:

[bigcid10]

I downloaded it off a filelocker. Took about a day. Wasn't worth it. 43GB for an 8 hour game? Watchdogs is 18GBs, and I've been playing it for 3 days now, almost non-stop.

LMAO, Wolfenstein is a Ego-Shooter, Watch_Dogs an Open World game! Besides that, it is the technique behind the engine used in Wolfenstein that made the game that big, the same technique that has been used in Rage, Megatexturing. I can see the game with a different engine cut in half and it could have the same size like Watch_Dogs or even less. If the main reason was to scare away pirates they did a good job, in failing. The only idiots now are those that paid for the game and need to spend a week downloading that shit. Some of them are maybe still downloading since release some days ago and they still will find hundreds of low-res textures in the game here and there that look like borrowed from Wolfenstein 3D, they should have made it 100 GB or 150 GB or even 200 GB to make it look perfect and underline quality reasons for using the megatexturing technique and it's a shame they haven't. Now everyone thinks it just was to make pirates skip.

have you seen my violin,lol