120 gb is actually absurd

[Dusk the Umbreon]

This is just...far too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ big. No game should be breaking 70gb for any reason at all.

It used to hover around 60. 120 is mind-boggling.

The game BADLY needs storage space optimization.

[Reggie]

While I agree, the solution is culling models and compressing data. It's ♥♥♥♥ I know, lots of people ask "wtf did they do that?". But you're better off moving onto other things. SoT is not one of those games that bends for it's clients, it's the clients that bend for the game.

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Originally posted by Dragova:

While I agree, the solution is culling models and compressing data.

Well....not entirely. There's other options.

But yes. They're gonna need to downscale and compress ♥♥♥♥. Usually, though, this can be done without sacrificing noticeable quality. But even if it somehow can't in this case then that's just what they need to do.

120 is too much for some people to download

[Aaron]

Oh my goodness, it's actually that much? I was recently wondering if I should get this, but seeing that it's actually like this is the deal-breaker for me. I kinda sorta wanted it because my friends were playing it, but now they're not, so yeah, no, this isn't for me.

[hungry jack's guy]

for such a bad game hell yeah

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Originally posted by José:

for such a bad game hell yeah

The game itself is fine. Perfectly fun with friends. But no game is remotely at a scale to justify 120 gb, no matter how good.

Like. In order to justify THAT much storage space, it'd need to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dwarf Fortress with HD 3D models. Anything less than that cannot possibly justify that much storage space.

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Originally posted by Aaron:

Oh my goodness, it's actually that much? I was recently wondering if I should get this, but seeing that it's actually like this is the deal-breaker for me. I kinda sorta wanted it because my friends were playing it, but now they're not, so yeah, no, this isn't for me.

It's a couple gb less, but yeah.

And it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks, because the game IS good! But I have friends who at this point literally cannot install the game anymore because it just takes up too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ space!

It's good we're out of the era of games having to be optimized to fit within a few dozen mb, but optimization shouldn't have been completely abandoned like it has been. Studio execs need to give devs time to actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimize games again.

[Magi]

You guys will complain about literally anything.

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Originally posted by Magi:

You guys will complain about literally anything.

Obvious bait is obvious. Points from clown awards denied.

[monstera]

Originally posted by Dusk the Umbreon:

This is just...far too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ big. No game should be breaking 70gb for any reason at all.

It used to hover around 60. 120 is mind-boggling.

The game BADLY needs storage space optimization.

Yeah, I hate this too. It's like each water polygon is 1mb or something. There's no good excuse for the game to be as massive as it is

[looz]

What kind of a smoke signal connection and toaster oven PC do you have for 120GB to be absurd?

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by looz:

What kind of a smoke signal connection and toaster oven PC do you have for 120GB to be absurd?

For what this game is and what it offers, 120GB is kinda insane.
I recently installed Grounded - it's like 12 gigs.

Sea of Thieves is practically on par with Red Dead Redemption file size wise.
Starfield - an arguably much bigger game - sits at around 132 gigs.

I just can't really understand how this game is as big as it is, and its double bad for Insiders who have the game installed twice. I had to get a second SSD just for games because they are just too big to really fit onto my main drive now, since I also have a sizeable amount of personal files and various project files, making it kinda hard to have 240 gigs worth of JUST SEA OF THIEVES on my drive.

Especially bad when I was only able to sometimes get around to playing, depending on when people had time, and its too big to just quickly reinstall if need be. There's a few games I have that are like that so really no way around other than to get a lot of extra storage.

[HerrDave]

The filesize is absolutely insane, I agree

If you consider the biome tilesets for the islands, island prop assets and monster textures, it's clear that's not where the filesize is being eaten up.

It's the cosmetics.
- Tons of high-resolution skins for every ship and even unused skins for player outfits
(^These are insanely high resolution, knocked down only by mip maps)
- Uncompressed sound-files
- Very high polycount cosmetics and weapons
(^This will only get worse because Rare gets their continued revenue from the in-game shop; Old items stay in the game files even if they're unobtainable now, and new stuff will be added forever)

This is more-or-less a snowball running down a mountain, building mass and filesize with every update.
- Monetarily this is good for Rare, it means they can keep making money.
- Functionally this is bad for Players, it means you'll have to uninstall other games to make space for this one in the future.

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Originally posted by looz:

What kind of a smoke signal connection and toaster oven PC do you have for 120GB to be absurd?

That's over 10% of a terabyte.

Idk man, maybe I just think people should like. Actually be allowed to install more than 10 games at once if they have a 1tb drive. Especially when the game STARTED well under 120GB, back when 512gb was acceptable!

People shouldn't have to buy new hard drives just to continue to fit the games they already bought and installed on that drive onto it.

Also, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ download times end up atrocious even if you had infinite storage space.

[sp1der]

True, this game was twice smaller just 3 years ago, since then they added:

• big boat event
  
• few more recycled forts
  
• recycled tornado
  
• mixed event of recycled tall tale tornado with ghost fleet
  
• few types of weapons
  
• bunch of recolored and non pirate themed skins

They really think players care about skins when game loop is repeatable of recycled activities, especially new players who will never see a half of all of these skins

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by on tha linë:

They really think players care about skins when game loop is repeatable of recycled activities, especially new players who will never see a half of all of these skins

This....
A good chunk of skins are locked behind Twitch Drops as well, or events that have long passed. Cosmetic exclusivity seems to be a big thing for Sea of Thieves but I dunno man, game seems pretty bloated now with so much content you won't see.

I'm willing to bet all the files for the time limited Adventures are still in the game too, further adding to the bloat.