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JohnBooty • today at 5:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

FWIW, the PC install size was reasonable at launch. It just crept up slowly over time.

    But this means that before they blindly trusted 
    some stats without actually testing how their 
    game performed with and without it?
Maybe they didn't test it with their game because their game didn't exist yet, because this was a decision made fairly early in the development process. In hindsight, yeah... it was the wrong call.

I'm just a little baffled by people harping on this decision and deciding that the developers must be stupid or lazy.

I mean, seriously, I do not understand. Like what do you get out of that? That would make you happy or satisfied somehow?

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the_af • today at 5:23 PM

Go figure: people are downvoting me but I never once said developers must be stupid or lazy. This is a very common kind of mistake developers often make: premature optimization without considering the actual bottlenecks, and without testing theoretical optimizations actually make any difference. I know I'm guilty of this!

I never called anyone lazy or stupid, I just wondered whether they blindly trusted some stats without actually testing them.

> FWIW, the PC install size was reasonable at launch. It just crept up slowly over time

Wouldn't this mean their optimization mattered even less back then?

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