alt Hacker NewsFrom a business perspective the disk footprint is only a high cost if it results in fewer sales, which I doubt it does to any significant degree. It is wasteful, but can see why optimization efforts would get focused elsewhere.
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Ekaros • today at 2:08 PM
Also the cost is often offloaded to the "greedy" Valve... So there is less pressure to optimize their own CDN use.
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bombcar • today at 2:26 PM
Given how many Steam games are bought but never even installed, it would seem not terribly worth optimizing for.
On phone, I bet you see some more effort.
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LtWorf • today at 2:54 PM
It might but they have no way of measuring it so they won't take it into account.
I think certain games dont even bother to optimize the install size so that you cant fit other games on the hard drive, I think COD games are regularly hundreds of gigs