Does an mmorpg download a significant amount of data while playing?

Hi, I was wondering if an mmorpg can download big amounts of data while playing? I'm asking this because it seems that I've downloaded something like 2gigs after the day I downloaded the client for AION. I've heard that multiplayer games usually download megabytes while playing but mine went more than 2gigs, not sure if it's the game or not.

Hi, I was wondering if an mmorpg can download big amounts of data while playing? I'm asking this because it seems that I've downloaded something like 2gigs after the day I downloaded the client for AION. I've heard that multiplayer games usually download megabytes while playing but mine went more than 2gigs, not sure if it's the game or not.

orrytur

Almost every game out there, MMO's included, only end up using a few MB's for a whole day's worth of playing.

Almost every game out there, MMO's included, only end up using a few MB's for a whole day's worth of playing.

XaosII

I used to play World of Warcraft over my phones 3g connection. Because of my data limit I had to monitor the amount of data I used. While playing it wasn't uncommon to see around 100 mb worth of data after about 2 hours or so. ferrari2001

It's supposedly to allow you to play instead of waiting to download but WoW never works correctly when it's not fully up to date. I usually get lag and desktop crashes. Not sure about anyone else.

MMORPGs are different than your standard online game because they're usually very large in size and require constant patching. If you're downloading gigabytes of data, you're probably still downloading the actual game.

no, usually they autoupdate before you enter the game, once you are in the game the data exchange is minimal in terms of size.

You'll usually use around 100 - 200 MBs of data for [QUOTE="ferrari2001"]I used to play World of Warcraft over my phones 3g connection. Because of my data limit I had to monitor the amount of data I used. While playing it wasn't uncommon to see around 100 mb worth of data after about 2 hours or so. Blicen

Almost every game out there, MMO's included, only end up using a few MB's for a whole day's worth of playing.

XaosII

i don't see how an mmorpg could use 200 megabytes in a few hours