Question About Update Size

PS4 update is almost 25 gb. We were discussing this is our club FB chat. I wouldn't mind knowing why the sizes are so different. I still have 6 hrs left on a 9 hr dl with my crappy rural internet. ☹️

So why is the origin app telling me, that my 21 gb i have free on the drive, are not enough, for the update ?

A streamer i watch, just confirmed, that she had a very fast update today, and she is using Steam !

I am using the Origin App, it is 2023, and it is STILL like that it shows 47 gb for a season update.

I am so annoyed of this crap, honestly. It is definetly not only the verifying process.

If the update for the new season is only about 6 gb, why are my 21gb i have free on the drive, not enough.

It won't let me update, saying there is not enough space on the drive.

Verifying comes AFTER an update btw.

The game is 67,4 gb huge on my drive with 21 gb free space available, and the update is clearly shown to be, and claimed needing 47 gb free space.

So what you tell people here is, that it accidentally mixed up, files to verify, with the update files that have to be downloaded,

and completely forgot to show, how big the update will be ? Because , it never showed, the about 6 gb update size.

Someone really has to get his stuff together at Origin ngl.

I have the same always, and now for season 18 as well.

It is like, the update process thinks, i want download the whole game, isntead of just updating.

It tells me, there are 47 gb to be downloaded for the update,

and that this is not possible, because i have only 21 gb free on my drive.

The installed game is already taking 67 gb of drive space.

It has clearly nothing to do with a file verifying process.

I can't update to the new season, without uninstalling other games, or completely reinstalling the whole thing,

only because an about 6gb to 10 gb big season update.

This update is a bad joke for Origin users.

Also, it seems like, Origin does not delete, the not anymore needed files first, before installing the new ones.

So it always needs more drive space available, than neccessary.

Example : The update would be let's say 20 gb. You have 10 gb free on your drive.

Sounds like no problem right. But not with Origin.

Because it wants to put in the new files first, and THEN delete the old ones, it needs 20 gb + free drive space.

How about deleting outdated files first, by the update process, and THEN, putting in the new files.

It can't be normal, that 21gb free drive space, are not enough, for a 10 gb season update.

It wants to update 20gb, and after putting in these new files in, it wants to give space free again.

So what would happen is, you having 10 gb free, so it let's you delete things worth 10 gb, so the 20 gb can happen.

After it is done with the 20gb update, it deletes the old files.

So now, after the update, you have let's say, 20 gb free, on your drive, instead of the 10 gb free, you had, before the update.

This means you had to delete stuff, worth 10 gb, to make the update happen, allthough, you have more drive space, after the update.

Does no one at EA get, what is wrong with that ?

Having more space, after the update, means, that it would have had, enough drive space, to begin with, before the update.

So why it is acting like, the user hasn't got enough drive space available.

It has always been like that, with Origin games. Everytime i had to remove stuff, for being able to update,

i had MORE drive space, after the update was done, so i KNOW, it wouldn't even have been neccessary to remove stuff,

if the update philosophy at EA, would use a better order of doing stuff.

Delete old files first, and THEN put in the new files, This would be the correct order of tasks.

But no, we have to stupidly delete things, while Steam users just update the 10 gb, that get added, and some old files removed.

To clarify. It will NOT start the verification process, if you don't have 44 gb free on the drive.

Therefore, this answer is not correct.

I just did the update. How ? I had to delete another 30 gb game, so i had 51 gb free on the drive (had 21gb free before doing so) .

THEN, and only THEN, the verifying of 44gb gamefiles started, and was done really quick. It did NOT do that, when i only had 21gb free.

After verifying, it then proceeded downloading a 13 gb update, and the game was launchable ( gave me a bluescreen first, but now works. ).

SO, WHY ON EARTH, WEREN'T 21GB free drive space, enough, for a freaking only 13 GB small update ?!!!

Now i end up having a 30 gb game uninstalled, for a 13 gb update, although I HAD 21gb free !

And guess how much free drive space i had, after the update, 49 GB !!!!!!!!!!!!!

This means, the game only grew 2 GB bigger with the update.

13 gb are installed, and 11 gb of old files removed.

And that is what i am saying. If they remove the old files first, and THEN put the new files in,

a few gigabytes free on the drive would be enough to do an update.

But at the moment it demands people to have freaking 47 gb free on the drive, for a 13 gb update.

The game folder size before the update was 67 gb, now it it 71 gb.

It only verified 44 gb btw. That is 23 gb less, than the game folder size. Very confusing.

Please find the failiure EA.