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Wanted to play Rocket league with my friends one night. Had to reinstall and download 16 GB! For some radio cars driving around in an arena, what the H? This sh
by martindbp 5y ago
Wanted to play Rocket league with my friends one night. Had to reinstall and download 16 GB! For some radio cars driving around in an arena, what the H? This should be 500 MB tops, and that would be generous. But it was nothing to my gamer friends, they couldn't understand why I'm so upset. Look, I've got kids and I have no time to wait for a 16 GB download when all I have is 2 hours to play. Another time I wanted to play some Minesweeper and found out it's not included in Windows anymore, you have to create an _account_ with Microsoft to download it, and lo and behold, it's over 100 MB. Like really? This should not be much more than 100 KB, 1 MB to be generous.
When it comes down to it, developers are disrespecting users, whether it's disregard for the compute (Web slowness), bandwith or storage. I can understand if textures are higher res these days, but in many cases I suspect it has more to do with skins, IAP and general developer laziness.
Buying and downloading Valheim was a breath of fresh air though, something like 1 GB and a beautiful game.