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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by lowdownfool@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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

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[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] discodoubloon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could see that happening if SSDs of that size drop below the $10 mark

[–] QHC@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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