GGG needs to compress some files. 124 go disc space for this game is insane.

The comparison the Helldivers 2 is honestly a little disingenuous. Helldivers 2 had a massive install size because they used an untested loading optimization technique by literally duplicating assets to make the travel time of HDDs reading head shorter. They assumed this would help the 10% of people who use a HDD but in reality it did not. They also reduced the install size by 5x not 2x.

By comparison path of exile 2 has many many more high quality assets than Helldivers 2 which naturally take up more space. There’s really nothing egregious about the install size of path of exile 2 given how much content is already there.

I’m also sure they will take some optimization paths before release because GGG are much more competent developers than Arrowhead but even after that the size will still likely be over 100GB and I wouldn’t really expect less.

There are 100% options for gaming with smaller install size budgets like Grim Dawn or D2 or others. And these days game streaming is honestly very viable if you have a limited install size. The option I personally use is stacking up cheap HDDs for most of my games while moving ones I want better loading for on to one of my M.2s as needed.

I just wouldn’t assume that just because Arrowhead have some bad developers and could pull off a 5x optimization means that other developers have the same optimization opportunities. PoE2 is already rather well optimized, so this isn’t really an issue.

Compress deez

maybe delete games, or software? what are you talking about? I have 1TB m.2 SSD for games and its more then enough. I never have installed more then 2 games.

They could bring down the size a bit by letting us download the highest res textures separately. Dont know why so few games does that.

Been on the struggle since the release.

Only have room for 1 game next to the OS (on the SSD) was about to kick PoE1 for 2, but noticed that the size difference removed the choice.

Running PoE 2 on an actual HDD is ROUGH.

It is compressed. the game has lots of visual content, 3d models, terrain models, effects and textures... all much higher fidelity then original POE, so it will only get bigger as things get added

Why not a regular ssd? Obviously not as fast but aren't they still relatively cheap still or is the whole ssd market fucked?

100 gigs from them are just 4k textures. You can’t do match about them, maybe only create 2 separate games one for 4k and one for 2k max textures

While I fully agree with you, it is still in early access. I know helldivers went through something very similar before releasing the slim version.

Delete games u finished…