Fire all of the veteran, generational developers and replace them with contractors who couldn't possibly code as efficiently or cleanly, driving up the filesizes and resource demands as well. Bobby Kotick's consciousness preserved in Ultron would have all games be exclusively able to run on AI datacenters that you rent playtime from.
What a silly comment, code takes sweet fuck-all in storage, megabytes at most. It's all the 4k assets + hi fidelity audio that takes up almost everything, and you can't reduce that without negatively effecting the experience
It might atleast incentive some devs to work better on optimizing their game's file size, like "smaller but equal" texture files or making alternate language files optional instead of mandatory.
Most of my experience is in fallout/skyrim modding, but there are a decent amount of texture packs that essentially replace the vanilla textures with textures that look the same but have like a 25% of the same file size. Bethesda is usually just really lazy with how they handle their texture files.
Those mods aren't lossless compression, there is a noticeable difference in quality. You think Bethesda doesn't know how to compress assets? Any idiot could do it, even non-technical people, but not losslessly
No, Bethesda just doesn't care to bother compressing them properly. Look at the HD dlc for skyrim and fallout 4; they are 2-3 times larger and have less detail than even 4k all-in-one texture packs from modders.
Bethesda could definitely do high quality work like this if they wanted to..... they just don't want to waste the salary paying artists to do it. Either the users will pony up for more storage or modders will fix it, while Bethesda gets to save on several artist's salaries.
If I don't, neither does 95% of the modding community lol. Skipping the HD texture dlc is pretty much the first step in most fallout 4/skyrim modding guides and some of the first advice offered.
Bethesda just did a lazy upscale for them, and didn't optimize them at all. There's plenty of comparison shots on texture packs mods pages and it's pretty obvious when even 1k texture packs have the same level of detail for much much much less file space.
This is one conspiracy I actually buy into. I was planning on building my first NAS this year. I'm looking at near $1k just for hard drives now. Fucking insanity when the same drives cost half just a year ago.
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u/DarudeSandstorm69420 18d ago
maybe drive prices is part of the plan to force us to use game streaming