Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install

As a follow up:

PCGamesN has an article* on the very subject, pointing to the data of
the June 2025 Steam Hardware survey** where Valve reports that storage
is increasingly becoming an issue for gamers. 15% of gamers survey
have less than 100GB free on their drives; 25% have less than 250GB
free. That's space for one or two modern "big" games (or about half of
a full install of MS Flight Sim 2020 ;-).

Modern games do require a lot of disk space --all those high-res
textures and sound files are storage hogs-- but developers /could/ be
a bit less profligate with our hard-drives if they needed to be. I
don't NEED multiple language files for every game installed on my
computer (or, worse, multiple cinematic video files with different
languages); the developers could give us a choice of which we want
when we install (some developers do just that, and offer the other
language packs as free DLC should we suddenly desire to play Call of
Halo LXXIV in Swahili, or something).

Maybe this survey will start making them realize the necessity.





* article here
https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/hardware-survey-june-2025
** survey here
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey