So one of the games I was considering picking up this sale is an MMO by the name of Black Desert Online, which is about 50GB in size. Nothing particularly unusual there in this day and age.
Found out there was a free trial, so I went to download the non-Steam version's Installer, started it up... and found that that 50GB was not compressed. At all (and from what I've heard, the patch data is similarly unoptimized.)
For comparison, NieR Automata is also 50GB, but is compressed down to (if memory serves) just a little over 20GB while you're actually downloading it.
Anyone else ever found themselves in a situation like this?
Found out there was a free trial, so I went to download the non-Steam version's Installer, started it up... and found that that 50GB was not compressed. At all (and from what I've heard, the patch data is similarly unoptimized.)
For comparison, NieR Automata is also 50GB, but is compressed down to (if memory serves) just a little over 20GB while you're actually downloading it.
Anyone else ever found themselves in a situation like this?