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eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s not Steam games, it’s AAA games.
Save cost on optimization. Increase the demand for storage. Manufacture the need for data centers. Profit. Why make a product ready for you when they can sell you a problem and a solution along with it?
Indie games on Steam tend to be a few GBs at most.
filcuk@feddit.uk 1 week ago
AAA do not manufacture demand for storage, that’s frankly ridiculous.
This is a simple issue of optimization:
A: noone cares to optimise the size when performance is a much bigger issue.
B: games are still often optimised for HDDs on consoles (duplicated assets), then ported to PC with as little effort as possible