*We have followed through on our plans and made small reductions in the PC installation size over the last few patches while still adding new content. While this was a good start, our short term fixes have not been enough to keep up with all of the new content in the latest patch. The longer term goal has always been to bring the PC installation size much closer in line with the console versions. We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected._
By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%). We have completed several rounds of internal QA and are ready to roll this out to early adopters as a public technical beta. Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases. This is live NOW!*
There are various coop games that no longer get played by me and my friends, entirely because of their install size.
Someone uninstalls to free up space, and then because it would take longer than our gaming nights to download, never gets played again unless one of us is instant that they download it ahead of time.
We just play something else.
To be fair that’s still an issue of out dated rigs.
It’s an understandable problem, but it is a “you” problem more then anything.
Companies could do a lot more to compress files and reduce file size but then you just move the problem from storage space to out dated CPUs with long load times and poor performance.
Really having less then 3-4 terabytes at this point is baffling.
But we’re not talking about compressing data. Just not wasting storage by having duplicate data in there. And I fail to see how it is a user’s problem when it’s the developers who are introducing the issue to begin with. If you are sold a product with an easily fixable problem from factory, you don’t take it accept the fault as your own.
I got 4TB of total storage, but i struggle severely with storage between all the car and flight sims with mods, multiplayer games with massive installs, and enormous single player games.