• mbtrhcs@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    because the earth is big and you don’t have a hard drive big enough to store it locally?

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            Imagine you would save all YouTube videos on your hard drive. You don’t have enough space for that (and time to download anyway). So the next best thing is to just stream those videos and parts you actually watch.

            And this is kind of how this game works; it will only deliver those parts and download in the background (which is called streaming) what you currently visit and need. Because you don’t have enough space on your drive.