Wanted to better illustrate my point about asset modernization, here’s an example of what I’m talking about : This is a 7.45MB animated GIF embedded among several others on the page for Helldivers 2 store page on Steam : Image

Here’s that same animation converted into an animated WEBP at 789KB… (I did an AVIF at 215KB with default settings from some random online conversion tool, but apparently Lemmy won’t allow those to be embedded / shown directly) : Image

It is literally ~10% the size, looks identical (could make better with less compression for just a few KB more), loads faster, and will play back in everything except e-machines from the late 1990s.

Additionally, modern formats support things like wider color gamut - which means you can create HDR assets.