• DaDragon@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    It doesn’t actually need 130gb of updates, that’s the fun part. They probably only made a couple gigabytes of changes at most, just their shitty folder/packing structure requires downloading every single ‘unit’ of the game again because they made minor changes

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      What the hell? Surely someone at their professional game development studio is capable of writing a patcher? It’s not black magic.

      • hstde@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        But hosting and letting everyone download the whole file is cheaper for them.

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            7 months ago

            I assume the console / game store pays for the bandwidth, not them. No skin off their back