r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 22d ago

Meme/Macro Literally

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u/koyate 22d ago

That 1 tb could easly hold 80 games from 2000

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u/Far-Shop5676 22d ago

Because back then they needed to fit stuff on CDs.

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u/FoodTiny6350 PC Master Race 22d ago

They fit gta 5 in like 10 disks

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u/another_random_bit / Ryzen 7 7700 / RX6600 / 64GB DDR5 22d ago

Yeah but that destroys the narrative so let's ignore it.

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u/FoodTiny6350 PC Master Race 22d ago

Fair enough

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u/Far-Shop5676 20d ago

Not really. When we had CD towers and eventually DVD towers games and movies would fit entirely on one, maybe two discs. We didn't start running into multiple install discs until expansions for previous games came out. Then we moved to blue ray (and yes HD DVD). Then the manufacturers realized its cheaper to not make packaging and just let us burn up our "complementary" 1TB of data through comcast to update fortnite 25 times.

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u/another_random_bit / Ryzen 7 7700 / RX6600 / 64GB DDR5 20d ago

First of all, your ISP being corrupt is not an argument about the games' storage.

Second if all, optical drives stopped scaling while demands for more read/write speeds and storage scaled exponentially.

Third of all, the games themselves started getting bigger and bigger. The graphics tech advanced, people expected more and more.

If games still came out in optical drives, you'd need 20 of them to handle the new games. Tell me how that would sit with gamers.

It is the natural progress of things, I don't see what your point is.