• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    Day one patches

    I don’t play many modern games (I’m currently replaying Watch Dogs 1). I bought a game a few years ago (can’t remember which one) and there was barely anything on the disc! My xbox copied maybe 100MB of data from the disc, and had to download the remaining 30+ GB. The disc was essentially just a giant license key and a small 128MB USB stick probably could have taken its place.

    It made me think of this revolutionary idea: Why not finish the game before the deadline, and put the game on the disc? Wow.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, yeah, that’s the new normal, I’m a bit surprised they gave you a whole 100MB to call your own.

      The modern Dad pro-move for giving the kids a game console for Christmas is to sneak the box open, set it up, do all the ridiculous downloads and patches then sneak it all back into the box nice and tidy so that the kids can just open it and go on Christmas morning.

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        Oh, yeah, that’s the new normal, I’m a bit surprised they gave you a whole 100MB to call your own.

        …and then you realize that they will eventually shut the online service down for that console and you won’t be able to play the game you bought anymore at all, despite buying a physical copy.