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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ignores the 300 gig is largely already heavily compressed saving you terabytes of space

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

I’d argue that this is similar to stores writing “you saved x [currency]” on the receipt. There’s a lot of unnecessary data in AAA games.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Ignores the 300 gig are made up of partially duplicates assets to improve loading times on shit drives.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's been a common method since CDs first showed up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So? Still makes the games way bigger than necessary!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, high def assets aren't exactly light on disk space.

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