Thread 722895909

What is it with western game devs thinking +100 gb games are acceptable?

Compression is too scary and not really inclusive please understand.

>>722895909 (OP)
The more space you game takes up, the less space the competition is left with

>>722895909 (OP)
buy the ssd chud

>>722895909 (OP)
There is a very explanation, but you won't like it. Decompressing assets takes hardware power and increases load times, can even lead to micro stutters, while assets that aren't compressed in the first place only take up more space and longer to download.

>>722895909 (OP)
It's not like they're optimizing anything anyway.

>>722895909 (OP)
Helldivers devs recently said that almost half of the storage their game takes is duplicated for physical alignment of files for retards who still use HDDs. It's 150Gb on PC and 50 on consoles. I guess it's consoles who really hold the gaming back, yeah...

>>722895909 (OP)
I think it started out as bait for normalfags who have next to no clue about anything, with marketing like "UNCOMPRESSED AUDIO!!!".
They then kept it because it was a deterrent to pirates.
Nowadays I truly think the knowledge of how to compress is pretty much lost.

>>722899420
>developer says

SSD have been a regular thing for PCs since 2014, even laptops from back then came with ssd(m.2).
intel's release of the chipset z97 was just a update for the z87 that added basically just m.2 support and thsi was in may 2014.

>>722899595
prebuilts still use HDDs to cut costs

I was pretty astounded to see that DK Bananza is only 9 gigs.

>>722898667
LoD solves this.
Asset didn't load in time? Don't fucking block the engine. Just replace it with a lower-quality version and load asynchronously.

>>722899710
>google "prebuilt pc"
even cheap pcs that cost $699 come with ssd

nope.

>>722895909 (OP)
You're not a poorfag, are you?
Just buy new SSD.

>>722899420
So they should release different builds for different platforms.

>>722895909 (OP)
my personal favorite

>>722900014
but jews arent white

>>722900014
it's black males watching cuck porn

>>722900014
Based

>>722899595
Ok? 12% of their players still do, and that is what matters to them. You seemingly forgot about this small part of the world, that is not US or a couple of Western European countries.

>>722899420
Because those sweedish rats are well known for their honesty, like with the PSN thing.

>>722899846
Can't think of a single game that isn't using LOD. But it's only one tool of many, just like uncompressed assets.

>>722899710
I just have HDDs in my build
Unga bunga

>>722900121
But explain to me the difference between PC and console installation sizes then.

>>722895909 (OP)
Can snow really preserve that much data?

>>722900884
lower res textures

>>722895909 (OP)
Blame 4kfags

>>722895909 (OP)
Umm... but Helldivers 2 was made by Swedes, who are located east of me? Lol?