Why Games Are Massive

Been thinking for a while now how nice it would be if they let you check what you want to install. In detail.

Do you have a bandwidth cap? What region do you live in?

I'm in the Rocky Mountains. I'm an Xfinity customer capped at 1 terabyte a month.

No caps, super speeds here. Wasn't always like that though. Used to have to put up with either dial up or satellite internet haha. So I feel that pain of having a bad internet.

I'd like to expand your thread to talk about not only the option to choose the files relevant to you, personally, but also talk about why devs haven't improved upon matchmaking activities.

We need smarter online multiplayer matches. For instance, I can quit a match that sucks, only to be thrown right back in to the same match. Or skill levels don't match up well. Still a lot of lopsided matches of players on teams that are stacked on one side, and super weak on the other.

If they can improve resolution, game mechanics, controllers, and everything else, why not matchmaking?

I would definitely stop the ridiculous bloat that you download. I live in a rural area that struggled with speeds/caps prior, but I currently have a 1Gb connection with unlimited bandwidth. I live in an affluent town, although I can assure you that I am not in the same boat lol.

Edit: As for the vid, you may want to summarize, like posters do with DF. I'm watching Man in the High Castle, so i'm not gonna stream a vid ATM.

Why you gotta size shame?

I watched that video the other day it was pretty good.

My country has one of the slowest internet connections in the world. I'm on 200 gigs a month, lol.

Would be a obvious addition to games and very pro consumer.. that being said have a 1000mbit connection and no cap, so don’t care much either way

I’m shocked that places still have caps! Don’t think that’s been a thing in the UK for ages

Sweden. 30mbit/s, no limit. Not that great, not that bad.

Choosing what to download is possible with some games. Should be possible more often.

Croatia. Usually no cap, but I'm at the building where there's no cable or optics. Just ADSL. The buildings that are around 300 meters from our building have optics lol

So I'm using a 4G router with a 400 GB cap. Speeds are around 40/25. When I hit the cap, the speeds get to 4/4

930 Mbps down, 115 Mbps up fibre, no cap.

Much more concerned with storage than download size, hence why I'm keeping my 6TB HDD after I get my SSD this Tuesday.

Gigabit and no data cap here.

Nothing wrong with offering people more options:

- uncompressed audio: make it optional

- 4K textures: make it optional

- 5 different gamemodes: make them optional

- 6 years worth of DLC: not interesting for a singleplayer gamer, make them optional

Yeah it would be nice. It wouldnt be new either: game developers used to do it when HDD space was at a premium. ah the days when a 2-3GB HDD was a very large HDD. the 6 CDs of BG1 and its expansion were always a hoot. but it let you install parts of the game and load other parts from the disc.

It's certainly doable but a fair bit of work around tooling would be needed. they could even make it more seemless by having users select a universal preference in their console for performance mode or quality mode and TV audio Vs full high end surround sound. then just download what needed for the game based on those settings (audio and textures and the big bulk of space used).

also Sony/MS should certainly nudge devs to ensure that DLC for a game only needs to be downloaded by those who buy it (though that is not always practical).

@ezekiel43: Comcast customer too, I use to pay the $50/month for unlimited, that got reduced to $30 I believe now, but you can get that reduced to $25 with the xFi complete or whatever that includes modem rental cost so not sure how that works with their packages but something to consider

We get the xFi complete now for getting second modem because we have two people working from home who need to be hardlined at opposite ends of house so that worked out to reduce bill ironically.

Curious if game engines will ever be able to cut out big texture files completely by optimizing a method of giving objects qualities it can render more efficiently in real-time.

300mb with no cap. Expensive as hell since I live out in the country but well worth it after being stuck with 3-8mb for over 10 years.

Internet is not fast (ATT 16 mb/s, no cap). I play a lot of independent games, which generally means no dialogue, no big textures, and no pre-rendered cutscenes. I think those things often make games so huge.

If they don't have those things, this makes the games super small (relative to "AAA" stuff).I'd say average size of my game downloads is 10 GB, and that's including monsters like CoD and Doom Eternal.

I can't believe Steam still doesn't have an option to only update ALL games when I launch them. You still have to do it for each of them individually, for some dumb reason. Just wasted 1.3 GB of my allotted 1024 for DMC5, a game I almost never play, and now I might as well finish the remaining 1.2 GB of the update, since I'll just have to start over later if I cancel it.