Why are game file sizes so big these days?

>>384508714
No attention given to optimization or compression.

>>384508714
I am annoyed to find that launching Steam has greeted me with a 34.7GB update to DOOM. I am never going to play the online yet id software feels the need to steal even more of my SSD.

SEVENTY SIX gigabytes??
What the fuck?! That is outrageous

>>384508874
Oh god you're right, I forgot about that cancerous online portion, the beta for that was so trash.

>>384508874
ID software has been bragging about their super cool texture sizes, so it's not really shocking.

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Woah....it's almost as if technology moves forward or something...

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>Bought Black Desert Online on launch
>Decide to play it the other day
>84 GB update
>Uninstall

uncompressed textures cause everyone has 4k capability right? Also uncompressed audio and FMVs. They think it stops pirates, and it did, before repacks started being a thing. fuck you rockstar, and fuck you max payne 3.

>>384508714
I really wish Valve and the console manufacturers would do something about this shit. I own the PC and PS4 versions of DOOM and they're taking an additional 35GB of my PC SSD and 24GB of my PS4 hard drive for something I will never play.

A 4TB HDD is 120 dollars nowadays, why not buy one?

>>384510296
because I don't want to wait 10 minutes for DOOM to load. I only game on SSDs and this is 50GB of bullshit that I don't care about being taken from my SSD. Why should I be forced to buy more storage to fit content I can't even opt out of, since Steam doesn't let you disable game updates?