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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:25:04 JST Rich Felker

   There needs to be some kinda crackdown on "you need to download 15-100 GB every few days to keep playing something you already paid for". 🤬

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     Pete Orrall (peteorrall@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:29:58 JST Pete Orrall

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     @dalias That is an unreasonable quantity of data.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:29:58 JST Rich Felker

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     • Pete Orrall

     @peteorrall My coworker plays Fortnite and it used to be a ~5GB update at most a couple times a month. Recently it's been 45 GB, 15 GB, etc. sometimes multiple times per week. 🤬 And even worse if you don't turn off high res textures.

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     KasTas (kastasmykolas@river.group.lt)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:30:40 JST KasTas

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     @dalias well, in case of EU, there is some.... action going on the right direction, it would seem:
     https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

     Technically, it's rather about "pulling the plug", but still.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:33:41 JST Rich Felker

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     Like, the legal requirement should be you can say no to new features and just not have access to them, updates only to components necessary to interoperate with server side changes to what you're already using. If new assets are required, option to fetch ultra low quality versions of them.

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     Pete Orrall (peteorrall@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:35:32 JST Pete Orrall

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     @dalias Wowza! That's more than an operating system.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:35:32 JST Rich Felker

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     • Pete Orrall

     @peteorrall It's because they're incompetent at differential updates, don't care because they think everyone is in US with unmetered 100 gbit cable or fiber, and think everyone cares about UHD textures and 4k displays.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:37:32 JST Rich Felker

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     • Pete Orrall

     @peteorrall Yes, AAA gaming is utterly out of control bonkers. I hate it. There's no excuse for games to be more than a few hundreds of MB.