Video games occupy more data today than ever. If you have Overwatch for PC, you have probably already invested several gigabytes in the game, both through the installation process and through the updates. However, you will have to be willing to download a few more, since Blizzard says the next patch will require players to download the client again.
"The next main patch will have some fundamental changes in the game client," Blizzard writes in a forum post. "The amount of changes in the back-end we are making is large enough that we cannot apply patches on the current content efficiently. As a result, when the next patch comes out, the client will be completely reinstalled to handle these changes. We know this is not ideal for people with measured connections, so we hope this announcement helps you prepare for this next update. "
That should be around 13 GB, which is not relatively large or anything similar. But it means that if you are one of those people who carefully ration your monthly data limit due to ISP limits, there is a 13GB download in your near future that you may not have negotiated.
Blizzard has not said when to expect the update, or what exactly to imply, but it seems likely to include the renewals announced in the repetition system.
