EIGHTY SIX GIGABYTES (86) no matter how good it looks and sounds its bloat guaranteed

4K all the way!

I cant play a blurry low res game. Hurts my eyes to even look at it.

There's a lot of very good reasons why they don't compress games anymore.

And the main one is, that it's just not needed. You don't get a performance increase from compressed Data, you actually get a worse performance. It was done this way for decades because storage was limited, internet bandwidth was limited. And those just aren't issues anymore.

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 wrote:

Just to verify: Are you suggesting that your solution to GGGs wasteful product is to work around their failure and pay a tax to Amazon, screw open my Steam Deck and slot in a bigger disk?

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Akedomo#3573 wrote:

There's a lot of very good reasons why they don't compress games anymore.

There's also a lot of very good reasons to not ship a 100 GB product. Your internet bill and dedicated devices with low storage to name just two.

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Akedomo#3573 wrote:

And the main one is, that it's just not needed.

Well, I disagree.

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randrew#4970 wrote:

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 wrote:

Just to verify: Are you suggesting that your solution to GGGs wasteful product is to work around their failure and pay a tax to Amazon, screw open my Steam Deck and slot in a bigger disk?

What do you mean by wasteful? I want to understand you better. Could you elaborate?

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randrew#4970 wrote:

Just to verify: Are you suggesting that your solution to GGGs wasteful product is to work around their failure and pay a tax to Amazon, screw open my Steam Deck and slot in a bigger disk?

Just to verify:
- are you suggesting that GGG should make their product less good for the 99% to cater to an incredibly small fraction of their customer base?

- have you ever written a single line of code?

- do you have any tangible development optimizations to suggest?

- do you have the slightest understanding of modern CI/CD?

- should they refactor the entire game in rust? (yes)

- do you understand that what you are referring to as a "Steam Deck", is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux?

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

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randrew#4970 wrote:

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Akedomo#3573 wrote:

There's a lot of very good reasons why they don't compress games anymore.

There's also a lot of very good reasons to not ship a 100 GB product. Your internet bill and dedicated devices with low storage to name just two.

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Akedomo#3573 wrote:

And the main one is, that it's just not needed.

Well, I disagree.

Well, if you're in a situation in which you have limited storage and internet. Then I understand why you'd be frustrated with this.

It's a valid frustration in that case, and you're right to be upset over it.

Hmm. I'm going to just say it though. Compressing games isn't easy. It costs a company a lot of time and effort, and only a small portion of the playerbase would benefit from the smaller files.

If you're playing on a steamdeck too, you have to consider that you don't have the best CPU on it, and unpacking data to play would probably cause even worse performance for you. Not better. As packing data requires it to be unpacked, in real time, while playing. Tanks performance.

They made devices like steamdeck upgradable for this very reason. 2 terabyte SSD's are very affordable these days.

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

that reminds me, I should buy a 4tb ssd before the tariffs begin.

LOL

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 wrote:

Just to verify:
- are you suggesting that GGG should make their product less good for the 99% to cater to an incredibly small fraction of their customer base?

Yes.

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 wrote:

- have you ever written a single line of code?

Yes.

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JODYHiGHR0LLER#6171 wrote:

- do you have any tangible development optimizations to suggest?
- do you have the slightest understanding of modern CI/CD?

Yes. My rate is 300$/h. And I want power over hiring decisions.