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banana_meccanica, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

Well then i hope phisical games come back to be a thing because i will never downlaod a 100gb+ game. They should make game in USB or Hardrive format that an user can buy at store like was with CD and DVD.

discodoubloon,
@discodoubloon@kbin.social avatar

I could see that happening if SSDs of that size drop below the $10 mark

QHC,
@QHC@kbin.social avatar

Flash drives are already at that price point for consumers, let alone at manufacturing/bulk prices.

CIWS-30,

Honestly, things like this were why I thought that Blu-Ray drives would take off. It's why I bought a Blu-ray RW drive in 2014 for my PC build because I thought it would be the future as game and media sizes would only get bigger and more of a pain to download.

I was wrong, but I wish I hadn't been. At least I can rip my PS3 Blu-rays to play them on emulators now. It's hard to go back and play them at 720p on a big screen without all the features that emulators give me. Rendering at 1440p (minimum) just being the start.

banana_meccanica,

Soon or later the progress will gonna need to going back as new generation of physical disk-like. Also this depency on the net is simple unsafe, service can go offline anytime and hundred of dollars in game just become nothing. We should relearning the value of owning something really in our hands and not in virtual libraries.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

Never? There's that infamous quote about how people will never need more than 64KB of RAM that comes to mind. SSD prices are falling rapidly, and internet bandwidth is only increasing. I understand if you don't have the means right this moment, but 100+ GB games are here and will only happen more often.

foggenbooty,

I don’t have a problem with large games if I get the option of what I want to download. Most often these large sizes are because it forces you to get full 4K textures and multiple copies of the audio files for languages you don’t speak.

I would bet half the size of this game is unnecessary for the average player. We really need the ability to download the core game and then these add-ons separately.

LoafyLemon,

This would create excessive waste, and the EU would never approve of it.

tal, (edited ) w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it
@tal@kbin.social avatar

Why do people care?

I mean, yes, all else held equal, I'd rather have a video game two days earlier or whatever, but this is way down the list of things I'd get worked up about.

Hell, the !@PatientGamers crowd waits for at least a year after release, at which point all the patches and whatnot are normally out, often sales are on, hardware to run a game tends to be cheaper, and often people have done substantial work on game wikis and the like. I can understand someone not wanting to wait for a year, but who can't handle a day or two?

EDIT: Or let me put another perspective on it. The release date is essentially arbitrary from a player's standpoint. Suppose some serious bug had shown up late in development -- which could easily have happened -- and that release date had been pushed back by five days. I doubt that anyone would have said anything, even though they would have gotten their hands on the game several days later. But the inability to preload making that same game show up playable a couple of days later has articles being written complaining about it. Why? The delay happens either way.

Awall, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

Where is Pied Piper when you need it!

ono, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

I smell poorly compressed textures/media at resolutions much higher than most people need.

Come on, Larian. Be better.

EvilMonkeySlayer, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

Good thing I just recently upgraded my internet connection to a full gigabit.

Montagge, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it
@Montagge@kbin.social avatar

Cries in 8Mbps down

Muffi, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

So glad I just invested in a 20TB disk for this kind of shit. Got so tired of uninstalling and reinstalling games to manage space.

lightninhopkins, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

That’s insane. Let me get it on some kind of physical media.

WanderingPoltergeist, w Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series: Larian Studios says not this year
@WanderingPoltergeist@kbin.social avatar

That's a shame as I was hoping to play Baldur's Gate 3 on my Series S sometime this year. I'll just wait for it to release on Xbox instead of getting it for PC. I've got other games to entertain myself until then.

harpuajim, w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

Seems like Australia gets screwed with these types of things more than other first world nations. Even a lot of third world countries have better speeds on average than Australia. Even then though with a 50mbps connection you can just download it overnight or start it before you leave for work and you’ll be good to go.

syphe,

You guys beat us at most things, but at least we have the Bledisloe, and fibre internets

JJROKCZ, w Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series: Larian Studios says not this year

I guess trying to make a current game work on the lower “next gen” model is harder than anticipated based on that article earlier this week where they said getting split screen working was a challenge

mp3, w Xbox Is Suspending Players Caught Using Emulators
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Sounds like a bad idea in general to play cracked/emulated games online in the first place…

CmdrShepard,

It sounds oike people aren’t getting banned for playing games, they’re getting banned for using an emulator without paying Microsoft a vig.

Knusper, w Xbox Is Suspending Players Caught Using Emulators

Ah, yes, the good old you-bought-a-full-fledged-computer-but-you-don’t-actually-own-it switcheroo.

luthis, w Xbox Is Suspending Players Caught Using Emulators

PCMasterRace

Itty53,
@Itty53@kbin.social avatar

Honestly, leave it on Reddit. That sub was just ASUS and Corsair in a trenchcoat. I can do without the commercials.

Emu, w New trailer for my personal project. I wish I could quit my job instead of spending nights and weekend days working on it.
@Emu@kbin.social avatar

Don't compare your game to another game which is literally a billion times better. Yours is just space invader in a circle but worse. Sorry but that was a very boring trailer, not highlighting very many interesting customisation if any.

FVS,
@FVS@kbin.social avatar

Thank you for being honest. But hey, how dare I compare my side project to those mega super hits? I just used them as references since they are really games that inspired mine. It's not and not meant to be VS or Brotato killer. No. But I do hope and am trying my best to make it have values of its own. Give it a chance when the free demo is out, will you?

rigatti,
@rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

That person was insanely harsh for no reason. I’m sure lots of people thought similar things about VS before it took off. Don’t sweat it, your game looks cool.

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