gggplaya :
This game would pretty much eat up all my free space on my 120GB SSD with just one game. Sure i have another 2TB optical drive installed, but games should be loaded onto the SSD for loading speed. Some games actually write heavily onto the HD while playing, so again SSD has large advantages. The people without money for a higher end PC should just be playing on an Xbox anyways.
More frequent read/writes to your SSD actually decreases its lifespan, not improves it, so this is actually a reason why *not* to use an SSD for games that read/write heavily to the SSD and use it for applications instead. This is why in particular, RAMDisks are popular with MMOs over SSDs because of the large read/write amounts are unhealthy for the SSD.
Also, like I mentioned before, unless you join mid-match, Titanfall
waits for everyone to load in before starting the match.. Load times aren't terribly important for this game because of that, so, SSD really doesn't have that large of an advantage.
burkhartmj - Don't get me wrong, like I said in my last post, I agree - a smarter installer is needed, because there are people who don't need all those uncompressed files, or should have options for how to deal with them. I agree that if this is the amount of space needed, some tailoring should have been necessary to target the smaller market. It is incredibly inconvenient, I'm not saying people shouldn't be mad, I'm just saying people should be tempering their expectations on games they can install to what drive based on the fact that most people aren't running around with 500GB/1TB SSDs to begin with.
However, I don't use my SSD for my games, because it doesn't improve my FPS. I use it for Windows, Office, and any of my other processing/work related applications. It improves load times for games, yes, but a 2TB drive with a 64MB cache at 7200RPM, is really
not that slow at loading games to begin with either. Not as fast, yes, but not so slow you're losing some kind of competitive advantage by using it over the SSD, especially in a game *that waits for everyone to connect* at the start of every match.
Unless you have a large SSD, I just can't see why you'd *want* to install this game on your SSD unless your HDD is just really that old or slow, because there doesn't seem to be that much of a tangible benefit to it.