Wasn't it under 10gigs back in 2014-2016?>muh 64bit>muh upgraded texturesnone of this adds up, why did they bloat their game on purpose? the textures are still a blurry mess.what the fuck did the cocksucking devs do to the game? why are they bloating old games? are they retarded? people don't have either infinite internet speed or even enough storage.can we start scooting these nigger devs already?even regular programs are getting needlessly bloated and don't mention electron. even fucking Blender is needlessly over 200 megs and is getting bigger every update (for "some reason")WTF IS GOING ON?
Just stop being poor
>>736888289check resident evil 4 (2005) on steam
>>7368882892011 High quality textures DLC included by base + Creation Club shit
>>736888289It's barely half that 30GB, with a ton of it being huge texture files. But that's not all it is. It's downloading creation club shit, and adding to to the game, but making you pay to unlock it.
>>736888637the warcraft 3 reforged move
>>736888289skyrim was made by indians which is why it's programmed so badly
>>736888289The blurry textures are the fault of a combination of engine settings, you can alter those to fix it. Also, the stock textures the game launched with were much better than you might realize because of this. What I'm getting at is that yes, it is pointless bloat.
I'm noticing a general pattern with all software (all of it) getting needlessly bloated. it's not just because of the usage of specific frameworks, libraries or game engines. it's just everything is gathering more bloat per update.Godot used to be like 20mb and is now reaching 200mb. it's still small but in the overall it just doesn't scale with the features added.Counter-Strike: Source was if I recall back in 2012 like a gigabyte or even less. in the past two decades it has been relatively untouched save for bug fixes. and it's now 4.5GB.everything is getting bloated, even old semi-abandoned softwareWHY?no really why? this is an issue as it is rendering "cheap" storage pointless. I really want to know why developers are bloating their crap on purpose.
>>736889319Two reasons:high res textures takes up a lot of space, people bitch hard when they see a low res texture in video games. Hell, one of the most popular mods for skyrim is even higher quality texture mods which boosts the file sizes highersecondly, storage has been extremely cheap for the longest time. People hate loading screens as evidenced with Starfield. By duplicating data and ensuring that you dont need to decompress data to read it, you bloat the file sizes but make the loading faster which makes people happier.In the end it's all about pleasing consumers.
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just pirate the original then retard
>>736888289It allocates extra storage for the mods shop bullshit
>>736888885You wish jeet
>>736889484>duplicating dataThis only work on hdd
If you can't download 30gb fast in 2026 it's not the game's fault
