We are the Collective. Lower your firewalls and surrender your distros. We will add your software and configurations to our own. Your customizations will adapt to serve us. Resistance is futile.

I mean I get that decompression can be expensive, but there’s nothing stopping them from having a base version of the game with smaller lower quality assets and allowing players that want to download the huge assets do so with a free dlc. Many games have done this in the past.

I don’t get why modern AAA refuses to compress / distribute lower storage requirement assets.