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

Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote at 02:21 this Sunday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:05:05 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
 

Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
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It's currently 150+.  Why don't they just make it a terabyte and no one
can fit it on their comp?

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You _don't_ have a multi-terabyte drive?
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What, you think it's 2010 or something?
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Current System:  2TB SSD + 16TB of Spinning Rust
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Hell I even have a 1TB USB Stick.
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Xocyll

 
In fairness, a lot of laptops (and even some computers) are /still/
shipping with hard-drives* less than 1TB, and I'm always surprised at
how many people use ordinary laptops --not even overpriced gaming
laptops, but just regular 'designed mostly for office work' laptops--
as their primary gaming platform. Space for games on these machines is
at a premium, and dedicating 100+GB to a single title can be /very/
annoying.

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It's kind of like a bubble that pops when the install is 100+ GB.  I had
this with Street Fighter V, GTA V and Baldur's Gate III.  When I finally
decide to uninstall, about ten other games instantly fill the vacuum.  I
started to realize that <2 GB for a game is nearly trivial (on half a
terabyte).

Yeah, it is kinda ridiculous how much storage everything takes up
nowadays. I know my laptop didn't, and I had to get a seperate TB hard
drive later.
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