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Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction by wongarsu on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:16AM (#46230988)
It's pretty standard to do that duplication for games on CD/DVD because seek times are so long. It probably just got carried over as the "obviously correct" way of doing things, since HDDs are like DVDs if you squint a bit
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Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction by jayd16 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:26AM (#46233432)
The game does ship on disc for console, no?
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Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction by Teknoman117 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:19PM (#46234940)
The current generation of consoles can’t play games directly off the disk. They have to be installed to local storage first.
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Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction by Arrath on Thursday December 11, 2025 @03:15PM (#46236542)
I had assumed the practice started to die off when installing games became dominant over streaming from the disc even on consoles. Seems I was wrong!
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