RMMV Trial

[Ksi]

I know a lot of people hated that MV didn't come with all the resources initially and thus *****ed about it til they got what they wanted, but I know a lot of people who aren't happy with the one-file download that is so big... so much so that they don't want to download the trial at all and thus are missing out on trying the engine for themselves: possible customers down the drain.

Is there any way to have a series of smaller files, perhaps? Not everyone can just download 1G+ in a go, after all.

(Sorry if this is the wrong area but I figured this was the best place for it.)

 

[Kinchen]

The reason for RMMV having a large file is because of the RTP being built in, I'm pretty sure it's worth the space. 

 

[Ksi]

I know why it is, but people are being driven away due to the size. Which isn't good.

Looking at my install minus the extra DLC, the graphical assets are ~280MB, the audio assets are ~670MB. My suggestion would be to remove the m4a music (where are they even used? The Essential Add-ons DLC doesn't even have m4a versions available unless the user reencodes them) and reencode the OGGs at a lower bitrate (one is encoded at something ridiculous like 499kbps or so). That's the vast majority of the space right there.

 

[Kinchen]

It's normal to have an application with the size of 400MB, take note that other game making engines require 1 GB hard disk space or more.

 

[Ksi]

Did you even read?

 

[Andar]

I suggested internally that MV might have been better with an ability to choose between different base projects based on different themes (like Fantasy or Science Fiction), only to be told that this was already suggested by Degica employees during the programming stage but the Kadokawa decided against such an option.

 

[Celianna]

I've moved this thread to product discussion. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Ksi]

Ah, thanks, Cel. Like I said, I wasn't sure where to put this. ^.^;

 

[djDarkX]

Even if such option existed, people would still complain about it.

"Where are all the other resources that everyone else got?"

"Why do I have to download them separately?"

"Why don't they bundle them all together into one bundle to I don't have to install everything manually?"

Thing is, Ksi, people will find a reason to gripe and moan.  I know these are potential customers, but if they aren't happy from the get go, they never will be.  It's the same for any product.

 

[C-C-C-Cashmere]

You should use a torrent. Then people can specify which packs they want to include or not.

 

[Ksi]

Another person posted this:

I did a useless test and after removing the m4a files from the default audio assets and reencoding the BGM to 192kbps VBR OGG files from... whatever the Frick they were before I reduced the file size of the audio folder from 673MB to 200MB. I can't comment on the contents of the trial itself though, if they have the same files as the purchased product (I'm going to assume 'yes', I can't download the trial because the subscribe/download system gave Opera a white webpage after I gave it a garbage email because Frick that. Also its a gig and my ISP has bandwidth restrictions).

Because I hate myself I threw the Battlebacks1 at PNGOut with maximum compression and saved another ~25% on filesize (85MB to 60.7M. Too bad Irfanview's batch converter can't handle alpha channels, I can't do any work on any other asset because of it.

@djDark: At least give an option for people with lower internet speeds. For all that most people have high speed there are certain countries and places that do not get high speed. They shouldn't be left out because people *****ed about not getting everything (honestly, they shouldn't have been able to imo. If they wanted everything they should have bought the damn program. Trial versions are supposed to be a taste test, not the full bloody thing. :/ )

 

[PixelLuchi]

1.1 gigs is ridiculous for a trial, imo. Seeing that it takes me 23 hours to DL with my current connection and having an extremely limited bandwidth cap of 2 gigs, well--

Libby's/Ksi is right though. People shouldn't have stuff handed to them on a silver platter because they whined and moaned. If you want something, pay for it. And iirc, the old trial was only 560 or so mbs. ><