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Subject: Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:30:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote at 02:21 this Sunday (GMT):
> 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).


Yeah, it is kinda ridiculous how much storage everything takes up
nowadays. I know my laptop didn't, and I had to get a seperate TB hard
drive later.
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