Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoThe Original GOTY edition was 5.3-5.4GB depending on language. Elden Ring with DLC is 60GB. How much fucking horse armor are they stuffing in this?hexbear.netimagemessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down12
arrow-up1117arrow-down1imageThe Original GOTY edition was 5.3-5.4GB depending on language. Elden Ring with DLC is 60GB. How much fucking horse armor are they stuffing in this?hexbear.netPosadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squarePosadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·4 days agoNah, I’m putting this squarely on executives being dogshit at actually managing game development for the purpose of appeasing shareholders.
minus-squareAradino [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·4 days agoYeah but back in The Day publishers would push for small file sizes to fit on less physical media. Then there were things like late 360 games coming with like six disks
minus-squareLe_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 days agogoing from swapping disks on whichever mass effect to pirating it on pc was cool
Nah, I’m putting this squarely on executives being dogshit at actually managing game development for the purpose of appeasing shareholders.
Yeah but back in The Day publishers would push for small file sizes to fit on less physical media.
Then there were things like late 360 games coming with like six disks
going from swapping disks on whichever mass effect to pirating it on pc was cool