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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by markx2 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:55AM (#37964434)
Agreed.

I am not condoning piracy, but when looking at game sizes, go check out fitgirl repacks. Right now there is a Steam game there reduced from 20GB to 10GB. Another is reduced from 3.5GB to 1.1GB. The downloads from there are consistently and significantly reduced.

If a pirate can do that, why not a game company? or Steam?

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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by Lvl999Noob on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:15AM (#37964772)
If pirates can reduce the size, I would imagine that the sizes are from DRM or obfuscation.
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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by msz-g-w on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:53AM (#37973385)
They are not.
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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by underyx on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:18AM (#37964787)
A lot of repacks cut all languages except English.
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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by markx2 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:50AM (#37964924)
Cutting languages makes perfect sense.

Why should I have to download gigs of languages I will never use? Just give me the language option at the time of download?

That of course makes for more work for the game companies.

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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by c-hendricks on Sunday October 22, 2023 @06:43PM (#37979742)
IME fitgirl repacks trade download time for extraction time. I've purchased and downloaded some games while waiting for the same game to extract.
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