• GreenBottles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean I can understand how textures add up but 161 gigs for a basketball game seems like a lot of unoptimized stuff going on

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      1 year ago

      Do they not even use compression anymore? I’ve been wondering since Steam came out if I was downloading compressed game files or wasting bandwidth every time. They used to try to conserve storage, compressing everything to fit on one or two discs (or floppy disks before that)