Why is the download size so small?

[Decado]

9.8 gig or whatever it was, that’s pretty small for a game of this type. Is there little by way of content? As a comparison, myth of empires is around 120 gig.

[Mampf]

mb it is optimisation for ssd, on hdd you need biger and more data to smaller the loadingtime

[RPGpro]

I think the question is more "why are other games so big", the answer is that these days a lot of devs don't try to optimise file sizes, since the know the majority of players are ok with larger files.

The elder scrolls online is a good example: during alpha/beta the game's file size was around 180GB (I think it even went over 200GB before they optimised it). The devs were clear that this was to help speed up patches/etc. and it would be lowered later.
After optimisation it was reduced to around 25-30GB, no files removed, just some were compressed and others had junk data removed.

Soulmask is probably well-optimised.
Meanwhile myth of empires probably isn't.

Originally posted by Mampf:

mb it is optimisation for ssd, on hdd you need biger and more data to smaller the loadingtime

This is actually the opposite, on an SSD larger file size can be loaded faster, while a HDD would load it slower. There is an exception to this where the files aren't optimised but are instead compressed, which would slow down both SSDs and HDDs, with HDDs seing the biggest impact.
Files are often compressed to speed up download times, at the cost of performance.

[Dradiin]

ROFL !

Devs cannot win, The game is too big ! Now the game is too small ?

[SundA]

Originally posted by Decado:

9.8 gig or whatever it was, that’s pretty small for a game of this type. Is there little by way of content? As a comparison, myth of empires is around 120 gig.

Easy fix! download then uninstall and repeat the process maybe 10 times or until you´re satisfied. Enjoy.

[jmspldnl]

Originally posted by RPGpro:

This is actually the opposite, on an SSD larger file size can be loaded faster, while a HDD would load it slower. There is an exception to this where the files aren't optimised but are instead compressed, which would slow down both SSDs and HDDs, with HDDs seing the biggest impact.
Files are often compressed to speed up download times, at the cost of performance.

Not entirely true. You have to deal with fragmentation on an HDD. One way to get around that is to store each section that will be loaded together on disk. This requires assets that are used in multiple sections of the game to be duplicated and saved in each section, so the HDD doesn't have to move around (seek) the disk as much to fetch the data from multiple places. SSDs don't have this issue, because there isn't anything mechanical that needs to physically move to access other locations on the drive.

[Flyingbox]

It's GREAT that a game is small size. "Western optimization" has us accepting that upwards of 100gb is normal.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by RPGpro:

I think the question is more "why are other games so big", the answer is that these days a lot of devs don't try to optimise file sizes, since the know the majority of players are ok with larger files.

The elder scrolls online is a good example: during alpha/beta the game's file size was around 180GB (I think it even went over 200GB before they optimised it). The devs were clear that this was to help speed up patches/etc. and it would be lowered later.
After optimisation it was reduced to around 25-30GB, no files removed, just some were compressed and others had junk data removed.

Soulmask is probably well-optimised.
Meanwhile myth of empires probably isn't.

Originally posted by Mampf:

mb it is optimisation for ssd, on hdd you need biger and more data to smaller the loadingtime

This is actually the opposite, on an SSD larger file size can be loaded faster, while a HDD would load it slower. There is an exception to this where the files aren't optimised but are instead compressed, which would slow down both SSDs and HDDs, with HDDs seing the biggest impact.
Files are often compressed to speed up download times, at the cost of performance.

That exactly what the other person said but longer, they OPTIMIZE now by compacting as much as possible because SSDs make it possible with peoples old HDDs you can't do that as it takes freaking ages with load times to unpack everything sigh.

[Decado]

Some legit stupid responses here, thanks

[SundA]

Originally posted by Decado:

Some legit stupid responses here, thanks

Did you like my suggestion?

[papa player]

Originally posted by Decado:

9.8 gig or whatever it was, that’s pretty small for a game of this type. Is there little by way of content? As a comparison, myth of empires is around 120 gig.

Originally posted by SundA:

Originally posted by Decado:

9.8 gig or whatever it was, that’s pretty small for a game of this type. Is there little by way of content? As a comparison, myth of empires is around 120 gig.

Easy fix! download then uninstall and repeat the process maybe 10 times or until you´re satisfied. Enjoy.

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