we need legislation banning games >100GB
OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT BETTER THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A 150GB GAME!!!
upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake
to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50
Helldivers 2 heard you and went from 156 to 23
wait is that real
just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost
on their own dev blog they said that after verifying their assumptions it turned out that it did not actually help much with HDD load times for their case (also only 11% of people who played the game run it from HDD), so they are going ahead with deduplication
however it does make me wonder: 1.) how many other game developers follow similar rationale 2.) how many people installed their game on HDD specifically because it was too large to fit on their SSDs
