Destiny, disc Pre-Ordered no Pre-Download

PeterTheWolf · Sep 2, 2014

If you did it in store there is no Pre-download generally as with Gamestop you need to go in to get the codes.

I ended up canceling my order with GS and upgraded to the Guardian Edition so I can pre-load direct from MS.

VVILKO · Sep 2, 2014

Cheers IceStorm III. That's cleared a lot up and it makes perfect sense. I didn't know about that problem originally but the reason I wanted to try speeding my process up was because of Forza 5 and Battlefield 4. They both were excruciatingly slow.

MaximumExtreme · Oct 31, 2018

I canceled my pre-order at Gamestop last week and this morning when I got up I pre-ordered and pre-downloaded the Destiny Digital Guardian Edition right from the Xbox Store.

Smwutches

It's been available for preorder since March 30 https://majornelson.com/2017/03/30/destiny-2-is-now-available-for-digital-pre-order-and-pre-download...

VVILKO

Cheers IceStorm III. That's cleared a lot up and it makes perfect sense. I didn't know about that problem originally but the reason I wanted to try speeding my process up was because of Forza 5 and Battlefield 4. They both were excruciatingly slow.

IceStorm III

You do not need to pre-load disc data over The Internet. The point of a disc is to ship the bits for the game to you on a piece of media.

The problems that Xbox One has with installation of disc-based titles have nothing to do with the disc being slow, they have to do with Xbox One trying to both install patches at the same time it's installing data from disc. To speed-up disc installs, disconnect
the Xbox One console from The Internet first. That way, the disc install will run as per normal (15-20MB/sec transfer rate from disc to HDD). Once that's complete, connect to The Internet and let the game update.

MS is working on the disc install problem. There was a recent survey in the preview app asking us to install a disc-based title and rate the installation process. I tested it using Forza 5 and it still took over two hours to install Forza 5, so it's not
fixed yet.

Shaggy2000

Ok WILKO, just a few pointers for you, just in case you didnt know.

1: When you install from a disc, your installing all of the game data from the disc, your not downloading it from the internet. Day one patches will be downloaded, but there is nothing we can do about that.

2: If you buy the disc version, you cant then get a code for the digital version as well for free. Potentially you could give your disc version to a friend and keep your digital version.

3: 100mbps internet is not terrible internet, I am currently running on roughly 10mbps. So whenever I download anything it takes a loooong time. Your internet allows you to download roughly 10MB a second, so a 1Gig file should take less than two minutes,
for me though it takes roughly 16 minutes.

bowski477

I'm a little bummed I can't pre-load but I'd rather have the physical copy so dems the breaks. Makes sense though.

Destiny, disc Pre-Ordered no Pre-Download