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Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction by maccard on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:20AM (#46242333)
> All Steam downloads are automatically compressed.

Titanfall wasn't on steam when it launched.

> It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio.

The person that I replied to (not you) claimed "They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconvenient for pirates to distribute."

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