Quote Originally Posted by Lan_Mantear View Post
So much hate coming from OP.

The way I understand it, if you only have ARR, the 3.2 patch will require you to download all the additional data that was previously held back from you during patch updates. There could be various reasons, but I would guess that there are new dependencies in the ARR content that requires certain HW files even if you did not purchase HW. This in turn, would require them to increase the minimum required space for ARR only installs. Probably has something to do with them changing how materia melds will work since that will affect even players that don't have HW, and the myriad of other changes that will also affect pre-HW players.
This guy gets it. They are adding the HW info to people who don't have it because of not getting the expansion. 10GB of data that, if you already have HW, you already have is going to be added to the people who do not have it. When HW released, anyone who did not upgrade got a minimal patch (adding stuff like gear models/textures and the Au'Ra models and textures) and that's pretty much it. Now they are dumping the rest of that data into the non-HW players laps. That is what is inside that 10GB download that non-HW people will be getting.