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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by lazyjones on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:37PM (#18766203)
> Pray-tell, what magic compression technique would you use to do better AND still support 4K textures?

How about downloading textures and movies on demand in the background when you enter new areas? It's not like all that stuff is required for the game to start.

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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by michaelmrose on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:12PM (#18766727)
Given 55GB of data and the internet speed the average person has, the fact that most users will ultimately need to load most data, and the fact that a huge mass of users will need the data on day one this seems like a bad strategy.
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