Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won’t be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    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.

    • ampersandrew
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      81 year ago

      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
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        21 year ago

        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.

    • CIWS-30
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      61 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

      • @Katana314
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        11 year ago

        I don’t think Blu-Ray transfer speeds are fast enough for most common gaming use cases. The consoles tend to only use those discs for installation and owner verification. At some point, their presence just gets in the way.

    • LoafyLemon
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      41 year ago

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

      • QHC
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        21 year ago

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