Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself

Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by reaperducer on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:54PM (#18453248)

you can easily end up with customers having broken installations that you can't fix

I sometimes wonder if games were distributed on cartridge again if they would be more thoroughly tested before being released.

Plus, they'd load a brazillion times faster.

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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by tracker1 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:35PM (#18453641)

TBH, I think that cartridges in this case could be replaced by USB thumb drive keys... effectively a 128GB USB drive with a hardware key, and maybe even an embedded OS. Updates download and apply into the Key. Take it with you, run on any common x86 system, it could be great.

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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by heimidal on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:07PM (#18453352)

Consumer expectations of scope, game length, release time tables, DLC, etc. have made this an impossibility.

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