[forrestthewoods]

Download bloat is net less impactful than build time bloat imho. Game download and install size bloat is bad. But is a mostly one time cost. Build time bloat doesn’t directly impact users, but iteration time is GodKing so bad build times indirectly hurt consumers.

But that’s all beside the point. What I was really doing was criticizing the <waves hands wildly> HN commenters. HN posters are mostly webdevs because most modern programmers are webdevs. And while I won’t say the file bloat here wasn’t silly, I wonder stand for game dev slander from devs that commit faaaaaaaaaaaaaar greater sins.

[Dylan16807]

Web devs are not a hivemind. That kind of criticism doesn't work well at all when pointed at the entirety of the site.

> Download bloat is net less impactful than build time bloat imho.

Download bloat is a bad problem for people on slow connections, and there's a lot of people on slow connections. I really dislike when people don't take that into account.

And even worse if they're paying by the gigabyte in a country with bad wireless prices, that's so much money flushed down the drain.

[forrestthewoods]

Believe you me I wish every website worked on 2G. HN is great at least.

For consoles total disk space is an even bigger constraint than download size. But file size is a factor. Call of Duty is known to be egregious. It’s a much more complex problem than most people realize. Although hopefully not as trivial a fix as Helldivers!

In any case HN has a broadly dismissive attitude towards gamedevs. It is irksome. And deeply misplaced. YMMV.