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I realize they’re trying to optimize for a wide base, but I have plenty of spare cores to decompress audio, and SSD space is limited. For me, the net result is
by haswell 4y ago
I realize they’re trying to optimize for a wide base, but I have plenty of spare cores to decompress audio, and SSD space is limited.
For me, the net result is that Titanfall was one of the first games to go when I needed space. Low hanging fruit.
Even if it was deliberate, I have to question the logic and wonder how much usage they enabled vs. uninstalls from file size over time.
- kristianp 4y agoYou've already bought it, so the game studio got their money, despite having a "bloated" install. So the incentives aren't quite there to reduce the size. I was thinking about buying Mass Effect yesterday, the recent update, but it requires 150GB and I don't have a Windows partition that big! (I'm Dual booting Linux) So I think money is being lost in people who aren't often gamers and haven't bought big disks for gaming.
- yellowapple 4y agoDo you have a big enough Linux partition? Mass Effect Legendary Edition runs pretty great via Proton.
- haswell 4y ago> You've already bought it, so the game studio got their money, despite having a "bloated" install. So the incentives aren't quite there to reduce the size. They may have some of my money, but not much (discount!), and they’re not getting money for DLCs, arguably the reason the base game was so cheap, and I’m not in a rush to buy more stuff that I can’t fit on my PC. Prior to the era of the initial game purchase being just the entry point I’d have agreed with you, but many modern games have monetization strategies that make uninstallation a problem. And if they have a strong enough incentive to care about CPU usage, they’re clearly putting effort into optimizing for some audience.