A lot of games waste a monumental amount of space with uncompressed PCM/WAV audio. Everything from sound effects to 2 hours of ambient music, all uncompressed. Titanfall for example, has 35GB of uncompressed audio...

Here’s a thought, how about we get the option to not download Hires textures and uncompressed audio, video game publishers?

You know what’s funny? Piracy.

I wish there was a stronger culture of efficiency of design in game development.

Dirt cheap? Wow. I just bought the most affordable 500GB SSD I could find with decent performance. It cost the same as my months electricity bill, or 1/3 of my months groceries. I could have had double the storage in HDD for the same price. But Dirt cheap it is not. 

It’s not that a type of game. It’s the 4K textures for sure.

And when your ISP charges extra anytime you go over 1TB in a month, and you’re sharing the internet with the rest of the household...

File size is very annoying, but download size hurts me more. Ever since data caps became standard i’ve had issues. My house always hits 90-110% of its data cap every month. 200 Gigs is 20% of it alone. (I know these two games aren’t going to be 200 GB downloads, but the next ones will be).

Exactly. If you are one of the unlucky people that have an ISP with a data cap, you’re damn near screwed downloading a game + an update for a month.

I think it’s less games as a service and more western triple-A publishers that are unwilling to invest resources into compression. They don’t make any more money to compress the file size, so they just skip it.  And they can get away with it since there’s not a lot of pressure from consumers, especially on PC, to…

Whooo I remember installing Mechwarrior 2 and gasping at it taking up like 80mb of space. PC games have always been voracious when it comes to HDD Space. This isn’t a ring the alarm situation, they are only gonna get bigger.

Its not just for PC, its both PC and console. They have gotten huge. Its the graphics requirements mostly. Combine that with updates that are just as big and we are going to need 10TB hard drives with 5TB external’s for backup.

“Rightfully” in so much as it was a colony of the UK (with citizens enjoying full commonwealth benefits) that was “handed back” to China in a deal between the nations without a lick of input from the citizens who were told they would go from being British to being Chinese. I’m not sure any government has an inherent…

I heard credible reports they’re giving those thugs pensions and little vests with “police” written on them too.

This is pretty shitting trolling.

Hypocrisy, Conservative be thy name.

Wait, you mean there’s an absence of integrity at Apple?!

It’s pretty obvious at this point that unfettered capitalism doesn’t support the western ideals of freedom.  

While I think this is something that needs milking, and that Blizzard who tried to make an example of a person to itself be made example of.... I actually think your dare is a good dare.

You would have a better idea if you bothered to research the conflict in Hong Kong and what it’s actually about.