1. Both consoles use BD.

What does "BD" stand for?

Can't wait to crush this games requirements.....

What does "BD" stand for?

Blu-Ray Disc

What does "BD" stand for?

Apparently in this case - Bloated Data.

^ You do realize that to some your really bad connection is a better connection than is even offered in their area.

my point is part of the reason the games are bigger is they do stuff to the game to try make it harder for these pirate scum bags to pirate them

This just made me laugh. The size of the game has nothing to do with the security it has built into it to prevent piracy. the reason games are becoming larger in size is the improvements in textures, in-game AI and various technologies implemented into them (like physx, tress-fx and so on). The actual anti-piracy protection takes a very small portion of the whole installation. The anti-piracy protection quite frequently bites the consumer who pays for the game. Like I remember reading about a game performance review on guru3d some time ago and they couldn't test the game fully because each swap of hardware was registered as a new computer and after a certain number of installs game client was saying that they reached the limit. I had the same with few of my games: original crysis wouldn't let me install my game after a certain amount of upgrades I made to my pc(It was original dvd I bought in a shop). So I had to contact crytek to get the restrictions removed. And after a certain amount of upgrades it happened again. So I just gave up and haven't played the game ever since. Just shows that anri-piracy is not always a good thing. And this is from my personal experience. Piracy is a bad thing, I don't deny it. It is everywhere: music, movies, books, games. It just makes me laugh when huge movie or music companies are bragging about making few hundred million (sometimes even billions of $'s) profit from a movie/music album/book and then saying piracy is destroying the whole infrastructure and losing them money. That just shows how greedy they got. It is never enough.

I'm probably the only one who think this game is overhyped. I'm pretty sure it'll be the same as the previous one, which was exactly the same as the one before. Now we'll have few "extras" like driving the batmobile.... They could easily release these Batman games every 6 months or so.

I'm just wondering how actual videogame producers may consider a 50+GB game to be appropriate for the Digital Delivery Age of PC gaming, it's a nonsense...

I'm just wondering how actual videogame producers may consider a 50+GB game to be appropriate for the Digital Delivery Age of PC gaming, it's a nonsense...

It's not nonsense, many people have connections that can download that much data in a very short period of time. File sizes are going to increase as technology progresses. I wont say that it isn't a problem for many who have limited broadband due to where they live, but there's physical copies of the games available for those people.

It's not nonsense, many people have connections that can download that much data in a very short period of time. File sizes are going to increase as technology progresses. I wont say that it isn't a problem for many who have limited broadband due to where they live, but there's physical copies of the games available for those people.

Honestly I think that wasting storage space like the latest and most advertised games is very far from the concept of technology progress. People are using SSDs more and more in their PCs and, as we know very well, these components are not so strong in the amount of storage provided. 100Mbit connections are very far from being the mainstream level of internet access. So what's the trouble with optimizing the data compression for these big companies? Money is not certainly a problem for them. 😉

Honestly I think that wasting storage space like the latest and most advertised games is very far from the concept of technology progress. People are using SSDs more and more in their PCs and, as we know very well, these components are not so strong in the amount of storage provided. 100Mbit connections are very far from being the mainstream level of internet access. So what's the trouble with optimizing the data compression for these big companies? Money is not certainly a problem for them. 😉

Companies are starting to mainstream 50mbp connections, but really only in the US is this happening....

Money is the same size problem no matter what size company your are, when you're small, just getting enough is the problem. When you're big, some idiot who gets paid way too much decides that the marketing department needs to get a **** tonne of money in it, because marketing is the only thing that matters, and **** the consumer because if you think you might be able to get away with it, then you should probably do it, no matter what it is.

Nice to see recommanded gpu is a 3gb 760 .... what what what is there any 3gb 760 ???

Companies are starting to mainstream 50mbp connections, but really only in the US is this happening....

Here you can get 100/100Mbps line for like $30 / month. I sit on 50/6Mbps only, but it is enough for games.

Nice to see recommanded gpu is a 3gb 760 .... what what what is there any 3gb 760 ???

It probably means 2Gb variants are not enough..

Am I the last person left who prefers to buy a physical copy of the game rather than download a digital one?

Honestly I think that wasting storage space like the latest and most advertised games is very far from the concept of technology progress. People are using SSDs more and more in their PCs and, as we know very well, these components are not so strong in the amount of storage provided. 100Mbit connections are very far from being the mainstream level of internet access. So what's the trouble with optimizing the data compression for these big companies? Money is not certainly a problem for them. 😉

100mbit connections have been mainstream in my country and most of Europe for quite a few years. Aren't slow and expensive i-net speeds only a thing in the USA? We are pushing 150mbit connections in some cities in Bulgaria for as little as 15euro a month as we speak.

i always buy retail games in the box gta 5 i wanted the box i like the art work and its non steam which is good just the rockstar social club sign in but theres no ads or trying sell you stuff like u get on steam uplay and orgin rockstar social club is great and witcher 3 non steam so fantastic news gta 5 and witcher 3 i would pay £100 for each of them games because there worth it there superbly made games, but probem with how big games are now there to big for discs so we need blue ray discs or games on usb stick i dont mind paying extra for nice blueray games on pc

Am I the last person left who prefers to buy a physical copy of the game rather than download a digital one?

I also like to buy physical copies of the game, I ad the box to my collection in my book case, since I no longer have books in it. However I usually backup the Disks and never see them again. This game looks awesome I wonder if they have a cool case with a limited edition, id buy that.

I'm not sure how to interpret your sentence? How is the game size in any way connected to game pirates / get tough on game pirates? Unrelated, and I can't base this on anything. But I think the game size is largely due to High Def textures.

I don't think that is correct... At least in my perspective, bigger games cause more pirates because more people want to download repacks that are 1/3rd the size because we are in 2015 and still can't choose what language to download a game and have to download 12 different languages...