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I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Baldur's Gate 3 is currently taking up all the storage space I would give to Bethesda's sci-fi RPG.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm kind of sad about how large games have become and how little goes into optimizing that since "space is cheap"; though it seems people don't really care about the bandwidth (environmental) cost of downloading that now that everything has gone digital (not that I'm saying physical doesn't have waste).

I just kind of wish there were alternates, maybe high-res (free) DLC packs or audio localization packs which I feel like were done in the past but never really became a thing. I find myself sticking to indie games that are only hundreds of MBs instead.

I don't think the article provides any conclusions besides beat games faster to delete them to clear space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

how little goes into optimizing that since “space is cheap”

More and more developers seem to assume everyone else can afford what they consider to be cheap, and feel entitled to gobble up all the resources on other people's systems as if they aren't needed for anything else.

And speaking of environmental costs, there's also the pollution and e-waste generated by constantly pushing people to upgrade their hardware instead of optimizing the software.

As a developer myself, I find it embarrassing and sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More and more developers seem to assume everyone else can afford what they consider to be cheap, and feel entitled to gobble up all the resources on other people’s systems as if they aren’t needed for anything else.

It's adding insult to injury when most of these games are now also launching at $70-80 these days, too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space might be cheap, but SSDs are too small for the slot they take up that could've had a much bigger HDD, and now graphics cards are so big there's physically less room for disks and cables too.

I don't want all SSDs to have room for all the games and nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My cousin just bought a 2tb nvme for $60, $10 more than a 2tb hdd cost 2 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But I want 8 TB drives. Or more, when they're more reliable.