• Tervell [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, we make gains in the efficiency of the tech, and then promptly wipe those gains out by just not bothering to optimize. My favorite thing about modern video games is how at some point devs just decided "well, everyone surely has massive SSDs now, so we can just have our games be 100 gigs, why not. Just stick all the uncompressed audio for a dozen languages in, sure".

    At least pirates make releases where you can cut the size down by not downloading a bunch of the extra stuff.