> All Steam downloads are automatically compressed. Titanfall wasn't on steam when it launched. > It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompre

> All Steam downloads are automatically compressed. Titanfall wasn't on steam when it launched. > It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio. The person that I replied to (not you) claimed "They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconvenient for pirates to distribute."