The whole situation surrounding Mass Effect Legendary Edition's pre-load on Xbox has been a little confusing up to this point. Some people have reported seeing a file size of 80GB+, some have reported seeing a file size of just 100mb, and now others are reporting seeing a file size of just over 20GB. Which is it?!
Thanks to EA, we've finally got an answer. If you've bought Mass Effect Legendary Edition digitally, you should now be able to start accessing a pre-load on Xbox which clocks in at just over 20GB. The reason it's so small is because it contains just the first game, with the other two available to be downloaded separately post-release.
It seems the intention behind this method is to ease the heavy downloads for pre-order customers and save on storage space - a bit like Halo: The Master Chief Collection - although if you were hoping to start Mass Effect Legendary Edition on the second or third games, it looks like you'll need to wait until release day to download them.
Altogether, the three games do appear to add up to over 80GB, but you won't need to keep all of that installed on your Xbox at once if you don't want to. And according to EA, this is all thanks to Xbox Smart Delivery!
Happy with this approach to Mass Effect's pre-load, or irritated by it? Let us know down in the comments.
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After much frustration with the preload option on the Xbox phone app, I finally got it to reinstall beyond the 100mb placeholder to around 21gb. I wish they'd give you the option to pre-load directly from the store on the console for those awiating a physical release. Presumably, there will be a day 1 patch still to add on top of this?
@sikthvash How did you manage this? All my app will give me is "Launch Game". I don't have it installed at all. Not even the 100mb placeholder. It normally works without issue but this has been a headache.
@InterceptorAlpha Apologies if you know the first bit already, but starting from the begining... Using the Xbox app on Android or iOS, you can search for Mass Effect then click on 'Download to Console'. It will then take you to a list of console registered to your account, so for example, it might say 'Series X' as that's the nickname of my console & you click continue. Here's the thing though, after installing the 100mb option I had to delete that based on what someone said on Reddit and try again. It took about 10-15 tries before it would register and actually pre-load - I had to spam press the install option. I've not had any issue with any other game, just this one. I think the install option was borked.
Just to clarify, it didn't look as though there was any option to update it, so deleting & starting again was the only option. Such a weird setup!
I like the idea, especially if you have a Series S for example, but it would be nice to have an option if we want to download the whole thing.
@sikthvash Yea, been through all that. The 100mb place holder is deleted as well. In app though the install button has been replaced by launch game. There is no option to install anymore despite it not being on my Xbox. And pressing that just turns my Xbox on and opens the store page.
@InterceptorAlpha Ah, that's irritiating. Maybe full shutdown of the Xbox and maybe uninstalling the app on the phone and re-registering might clear it? Your guess is as good as mine!
@sikthvash Yea. I've dried hard resetting the Xbox. Signing out of it. Signing out of the Xbox Beta App. Uninstalling the Xbox beta app. Even tried the non beta Xbox app.
Guess I'll just be waiting until I pick up mt copy to install.
@InterceptorAlpha Ugh, that sucks =0( maybe I just got lucky, as you're not the only one with the same issues.
I managed to start downloading the retail copy by selecting something else as well using my phone app. so far just the 20gb at the moment, but better than nothing. When my copy hopefully arrives on Friday in the post i got a head start in updating it and maybe even start playing the 1st game.
@InterceptorAlpha Try downloading something else using the App, working for me now
@Cyberpunk1964 No issue downloading owned games. Only preloading this one.
So I just found out that the PS4 save will not work on the ps5 while the Xbox one version will work on the s and x. Kinda stinks for PlayStation people .
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