omarfw comments on Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance

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[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago (6 children)

It's more likely that the devs are not being given the time or resources to do this kind of thing properly. Their bosses are too concerned with what will save money and generate shareholder value.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

This implies fitgirl is doing it properly. Which it's trade off faster download longer install times or vice versa.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

Decompression during install is generally less of a bottleneck than network bandwidth, so fitgirl is doing it properly.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Gamedev is notorious for basically having permacrunch so this is the most likely reason

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

It's basic math for these executives, the cost of bandwidth is magnitudes less than than the cost to pay someone to reduce it. They do not care about the cost to gamers.

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[–] klay1@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

absolutely this.

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