Call of Duty: Warzone is a big game. According to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick in an interview with VentureBeat, Warzone has now been downloaded a whopping 80 million times, and assuming an install size of 250 GB, the cumulative drive space is a staggering 20 billion GB!

The size of this downloads is a staggering 20 billion gigabytes.

This size assumes, of course, that all of Warzone's content is installed (including Modern Warfare - we're going big here), and since the free-to-play battle royale game has fluctuated since its release, the actual downloaded The amount of data downloaded could be much smaller. However, the total amount is even higher because of updates in addition to installations. In short, it is a tremendous amount of data.

In case you missed it, Warzone is a very big game in other ways as well, and will have an impact on how Activision engages with the Call of Duty player base in the future. CEO Bobby Kotick said during the company's quarterly earnings call today that the addition of the "free-to-play experience" has more than tripled the number of monthly players and increased play time sevenfold year over year. since Warzone's release, this rapid growth has led to Activision's marketing changed to "reflect the size and scale of our unique network." [In August, millions of players accessed the public trailer for "Black Ops - Cold War" by playing interactive content within Warzone, creating a truly virtual in-water moment and generating significant interest in the new title. Reaching out directly to player networks in this way is more effective marketing than any paid media network."

Activision intends to apply such a broad strategy to all current and new games, citing last year's launch of World of Warcraft Classic as an example: for example, the free World of Warcraft Starter Edition does not offer access to Classic characters, Kotick said that since Classic went live, the World of Warcraft subscriber base has doubled, and pre-sales of the upcoming expansion, Shadowlands, are "the best we've seen at this stage of pre-release. the best we've seen at this stage of pre-release," he said. How many gigs will this be?

World of Warcraft: Incidentally, Shadowlands will be released on November 23, while Call of Duty's next expansion, Black Ops - Cold War, will be released on November 13.