🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 10 months agoAnon wants to play CoDsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down11
arrow-up131arrow-down1imageAnon wants to play CoDsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 10 months agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoWhat the hell? Surely someone at their professional game development studio is capable of writing a patcher? It’s not black magic.
minus-squarehstde@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoBut hosting and letting everyone download the whole file is cheaper for them.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoSurely the bandwidth costs alone should be more expensive, no?
minus-squareyhvr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoI assume the console / game store pays for the bandwidth, not them. No skin off their back
minus-squaredecisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt is extra work for them so they make more money by not having a team implementing a patching system that can handle distributing only the changes. They just don’t care.
minus-squareregbin_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThey probably encrypt the packages so one small change changes the whole file.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoWell, I know this one girl who’s really good at repacking shit… maybe she could teach some of their devs!
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI’m sure she could teach them to FIT the updates into a much smaller file.
What the hell? Surely someone at their professional game development studio is capable of writing a patcher? It’s not black magic.
But hosting and letting everyone download the whole file is cheaper for them.
Surely the bandwidth costs alone should be more expensive, no?
I assume the console / game store pays for the bandwidth, not them. No skin off their back
Meh. Ranged download is a thing.
It is extra work for them so they make more money by not having a team implementing a patching system that can handle distributing only the changes. They just don’t care.
They probably encrypt the packages so one small change changes the whole file.
Well, I know this one girl who’s really good at repacking shit… maybe she could teach some of their devs!
I’m sure she could teach them to FIT the updates into a much smaller file.