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I heard that this deletion was done to remove game files from people’s computers - maybe so they don’t hack the game to make it playable offline?? But they are
by blackeyeblitzar 3y ago
I heard that this deletion was done to remove game files from people’s computers - maybe so they don’t hack the game to make it playable offline??
But they aren’t the first.
Bungie (then part of Activision) famously deleted the original campaign Destiny 2 shipped with and did the same to subsequent expansions one by one, claiming that older content took up too much space on people’s drives or some other excuse.
- maccard 3y agoWhere did you hear that? > claiming that older content took up too much space on peoples drives or some other excuse. Well which is it? I've worked on games where we've stripped old content in a patch. Like code, content has a cost to maintain it. If we update an Uber shader do we need to keep a branch for ever for that one edge case of an asset that we know 11 people out of our 1 million players use? The flip side is that when we don't strip content, we get accused of being lazy or incompetent - see any thread on patching or updating games here for what I'm talking about.
- blackeyeblitzar 3y ago> If we update an Uber shader do we need to keep a branch for ever for that one edge case of an asset that we know 11 people out of our 1 million players use? Yes, I would think you do need to keep it. It’s content people paid for already.