Wtf is with the launcher file size?

[LivinLoki]

18 gigs for just the launcher is absolutely wild!
Is there any actual reason for it to be like that?

[Falleax]

Bad programming. But I think it's also because it's running a whole ass separate engine just to display the multiplayer customization menu or something.

[countgrey]

It also has all of the season rewards and customization options with it too iirc.

[jurando]

Just the menu background movies themselves take up over 5 gigabytes due to poor file compression. This is actually quite common in modern game design because developers have become quite complacent with large disk spaces and 50gb+ downloads.

[Rose the Dark Gooner]

Originally posted by jurando:

Just the menu background movies themselves take up over 5 gigabytes due to poor file compression. This is actually quite common in modern game design because developers have become quite complacent with large disk spaces and 50gb+ downloads.

On the topic of 50gb patch downloads, sometimes stuff like that is impossible to get around because of how the game was packed together. If a game stores most of it's data in one big datapack or multiple moderately sized packs any changes/fixes made down the line will lead you to basically redownload the whole entire pack and/or any others that may work in tandem with it.

Ex: The Calisto Protocol has a set of 10 or so files that take up 70Gb and when the game was getting regular patches you'd have 50 or 60Gb downloads which were some number of those 10 files with stuff added so all in all you'd still end up with mostly the same files size as before unless they add actual new content over time whic did happen for that game.

Iirc the MCC front end uses UE4 but the games use their original engines. Most of it is probably UE4 itself ,background videos, and the armor customization. So the size makes sense

[The New Crusader]

That's a weird trend for PC games I've noticed: they're way bigger than they have any right to be. The Final Fantasy X Remaster is almost 40 GB.

[LivinLoki]

I've passed on buying a few games for the time being just because of how huge the files sizes are. It gets pretty ridiculous.

[The New Crusader]

Originally posted by LivinLoki:

I've passed on buying a few games for the time being just because of how huge the files sizes are. It gets pretty ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is putting it nicely. Destiny 2 is over 100 GB. The most expensive gaming PC on Amazon only has a 2 TB SDD. Destiny 2 literally takes up 1/20th of the available space on the most powerful PC money can buy.

[LivinLoki]

Originally posted by STAW PRATENUM:

Originally posted by LivinLoki:

I've passed on buying a few games for the time being just because of how huge the files sizes are. It gets pretty ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is putting it nicely. Destiny 2 is over 100 GB. The most expensive gaming PC on Amazon only has a 2 TB SDD. Destiny 2 literally takes up 1/20th of the available space on the most powerful PC money can buy.

That's the exact reason i haven't gotten gta V for the PC yet. it's like 115gb or something, and i don't care about it that much.

[acSiegemaster]

Originally posted by STAW PRATENUM:

Originally posted by LivinLoki:

I've passed on buying a few games for the time being just because of how huge the files sizes are. It gets pretty ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is putting it nicely. Destiny 2 is over 100 GB. The most expensive gaming PC on Amazon only has a 2 TB SDD. Destiny 2 literally takes up 1/20th of the available space on the most powerful PC money can buy.

devs certainly could be optimizing asset sizes more but this is a weird post.
A. Whatever you found on probably isn't the "most expensive gaming PC on Amazon", especially not with a 2TB drive
B. 2TB isn't as impressive as it used to be, it's maybe slightly above average, but nowadays storage has become far cheaper than before
C. It's absolutely not "the most expensive PC money can buy lol