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From: Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:21:13 -0500
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:05:05 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>> say:
>>
>>> It's currently 150+.  Why don't they just make it a terabyte and no one
>>> can fit it on their comp?
>>
>> You _don't_ have a multi-terabyte drive?
>>
>> What, you think it's 2010 or something?
>>
>>
>> Current System:  2TB SSD + 16TB of Spinning Rust
>>
>> Hell I even have a 1TB USB Stick.
>>
>> Xocyll
> 
> In fairness, a lot of laptops (and even some computers) are /still/
> shipping with hard-drives* less than 1TB, and I'm always surprised at
> how many people use ordinary laptops --not even overpriced gaming
> laptops, but just regular 'designed mostly for office work' laptops--
> as their primary gaming platform. Space for games on these machines is
> at a premium, and dedicating 100+GB to a single title can be /very/
> annoying.

It's kind of like a bubble that pops when the install is 100+ GB.  I had 
this with Street Fighter V, GTA V and Baldur's Gate III.  When I finally 
decide to uninstall, about ten other games instantly fill the vacuum.  I 
started to realize that <2 GB for a game is nearly trivial (on half a 
terabyte).

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