Why can't developers compress downloads?

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The Witcher 3 with all extra content downloaded is just under 70GB.

Battlefield 4 with it's patches and DLC rounds off to around 100GB. That's a fifth of my console's internal memory.

I dislike that the current gen consoles are favouring gamers who live in urban centres who have access to 4G/20Mbs+ internet so downloading 4GB patches isn't that big of a deal. Meanwhile in bumfuck nowhere, Wales, I'm stuck with waiting a few hours to a fucking day for it to download with a psuedo-internet blackout.

At this rate, I'd rather go back to LA Noire's 3-disc system than this migration to digital copies.

I keep forgetting you're in Wales too


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I live in New Orleans area. Fastest I can get is 10Mbps. So what, that's like 1.2MBps? :( It has a 150GB monthly cap too.


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uh, welcome to the fucking 2010s guys

where have you been
Every other time it has been brought up as an issue on b.net, a hailstorm of shills has instantly shut down all discussion of the topic.

Just because it's been around for a while doesn't mean I don't have anything to say about it anymore.


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What type of Jewry is this? Games look 10 times better on PC and they aren't 75 gigabytes plus 45 of updates.

Even then, on PC people can swap out their hard drives to a bigger one. And from the information I have, you'd have to buy a new console for increased hard drive space which only adds a measly 500 gigabytes.

Can you at least use an external hard drive to store/run games from on the Xbox One?

Console developers have never been as good as PC ones.

To my knowledge the xbox is also the only console that allows you to use third party external hard drives for it. So you can grab a cheap 3tb seagate and use that if you want.

Aren't Seagate drives bad? I've heard they have a pretty high chance of failure.


 
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What type of Jewry is this? Games look 10 times better on PC and they aren't 75 gigabytes plus 45 of updates.

Even then, on PC people can swap out their hard drives to a bigger one. And from the information I have, you'd have to buy a new console for increased hard drive space which only adds a measly 500 gigabytes.

Can you at least use an external hard drive to store/run games from on the Xbox One?

Console developers have never been as good as PC ones.

To my knowledge the xbox is also the only console that allows you to use third party external hard drives for it. So you can grab a cheap 3tb seagate and use that if you want.

Aren't Seagate drives bad? I've heard they have a pretty high chance of failure.

oh yeah, they're bad and i'd never use one for my actual gaming pc

but it's an external hard drive for an xbox so it's not really a big deal to me if it fails


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
The DVDs that X360/ PS3 games were printed on could only store about 6GB of data. Blu-Ray discs can store about 45GB. That, combined with the increased quality of textures, audio, and so forth mean games are a lot bigger. Factor in DLC and endless title updates and games are pretty big.

I can understand DLC that came after the games release or separate from the "Vanilla" disc itself need downloading, but with Blu-Ray holding 45GB why do I now have to download it to my current gen console too?

On '360 the only games that required a download-before-play were multiple discs, IIRC games that were at the end of the last gen's shelf life, (Dragon Age 2, GTA V) understandable if they needed 12GB of data to run at peak for old hardware.

Hell, looking at my Steam library I see Vanilla Fallout 4 comes up at 26GB with all the bells and whistles that the PC brings (Extreme graphics), while it's PS4 equivalent has a disc and a 40GB download for the game I presume is at lower settings. What in blue blazes are Sony formatting this shit in, Katakana?!

I buy physical copies because the best network infrastructure in my area is shite and unreliable, a mere upgrade from dial-up, so digital copies (and most PC games nowadays) are out of the question. I'm not sure if I should be focusing my frustrations towards the UK's shitty broadband and fibreoptic coverage, the push by the console gaming industry towards digital copies, lack of storage space and hardware limitations, or all of the above.


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The DVDs that X360/ PS3 games were printed on could only store about 6GB of data. Blu-Ray discs can store about 45GB. That, combined with the increased quality of textures, audio, and so forth mean games are a lot bigger. Factor in DLC and endless title updates and games are pretty big.

I can understand DLC that came after the games release or separate from the "Vanilla" disc itself need downloading, but with Blu-Ray holding 45GB why do I now have to download it to my current gen console too?

On '360 the only games that required a download-before-play were multiple discs, IIRC games that were at the end of the last gen's shelf life, (Dragon Age 2, GTA V) understandable if they needed 12GB of data to run at peak for old hardware.

Hell, looking at my Steam library I see Vanilla Fallout 4 comes up at 26GB with all the bells and whistles that the PC brings (Extreme graphics), while it's PS4 equivalent has a disc and a 40GB download for the game I presume is at lower settings. What in blue blazes are Sony formatting this shit in, Katakana?!

I buy physical copies because the best network infrastructure in my area is shite and unreliable, a mere upgrade from dial-up, so digital copies (and most PC games nowadays) are out of the question. I'm not sure if I should be focusing my frustrations towards the UK's shitty broadband and fibreoptic coverage, the push by the console gaming industry towards digital copies, lack of storage space and hardware limitations, or all of the above.

Part of it is a holdover from when the consoles were going towards DRM bullshit. The other part is to help loading. It means that even if the disc doesn't work fully, you can still play the game and load things in a somewhat reasonable time.

Like, my Halo Reach disc got a crack on the inside of it when my 360 was acting up so it wouldn't load any multiplayer maps. Installed it to the system and from then on out it worked fine.

Even towards the end of the 360's lifespan you'd see games doing installs. Destiny required a few GB of your hard drive to install shit, Halo 4 also required an install of something, Titanfall made you load in textures and whatnot manually each time you launched so the game would look halfway decent.

Blame it primarily on console developers being shit this generation and putting crap hardware and crap Operating Systems in the consoles.


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Blame it primarily on console developers being shit this generation and putting crap hardware and crap Operating Systems in the consoles.
And also this
the push by the console gaming industry towards digital copies


 
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Fuck off Zoro
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Also saw that episode where they met Brooks the dinner part got me good
I'm only up to episode 90 so you better not spoil it for me or I will personally come over to your house to body you so bad in Mario Kart you never look at it again


 
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Ahh don't worry I've forgotten so many plot points of one piece that I'm actually considering reading it all over again, but that's what happens when you wait for each new chapter of the manga to release. Jesus christ how long has it been?!
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Fuck off Zoro
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Also saw that episode where they met Brooks the dinner part got me good
I'm only up to episode 90 so you better not spoil it for me or I will personally come over to your house to body you so bad in Mario Kart you never look at it again
Ahh don't worry I've forgotten so many plot points of one piece that I'm actually considering reading it all over again, but that's what happens when you wait for each new chapter of the manga to release. Jesus christ how long has it been?!
Speaking about cheeky release schdules, Berserk is on hold again. He managed to keep to the monthly release schedule for almost a whole year.


 
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Wait

mangas end?


 
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*lifts tail*
Then come here and take it
with data caps and downloading speeds increasing each year
Not here in fucking backwards Canada.


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His eyebrows sparkling, his white beard hangs down to his chest. The thatched mats, spread outside his chise, spread softly, his splendid attos. He polishes, cross-legged, his makiri, with his eyes completely absorbed.

He is Ainu.

The god of Ainu Mosir, Ae-Oine Kamuy, descendant of Okiku-Rumi, He perishes, a living corpse. The summers day, the white sunlight, unabrushed, ends simply through his breath alone.
Wait

mangas end?
Most manga are printed chapter-by-chapter in magazines and last about a year. They only run longer if they are on a monthly schedule or they become popular enough to continue past that.


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ayy lmao
You want your games to have more lossy compression than they already do?