Hi!
I have many friends who would love to play Sea of Thieves, but don't have the computer for it. Also, me and my brother play on our father's PC, but he thinks it's pretty anoying that Sea of Thieves takes so much storage away from him. Our other games are nowere near such big as Sea of Thieves and every update of SoT is another 5GB. I would like to know why it takes so much storage and, since there are also constantly things removed, why the storage space keeps expanding. Anyone who know why this is and why other games do not have this issue?
Sea of Thieves is a BIG game :)
I don't think it is very large, it is about average for an open world game these days. Updates, while they require you to download some decent size chunks, don't always mean the game is increasing by that much space. Often, things in updates are overwriting things that already exist and so the bulk of what you download is essentially replacement and not flat out addition. I think this game is still somewhere around the 50GB size.
@daancanfyn keep in mind the updates are not necessarily “adding” another 5gig. most of the time a lot of it just replace or update existing files so its not like your game is growing by 5gig every update. SoT is fairly reasonable in size id say. I think the main issue is that your playing on your dad’s computer. For this, only time will help im afraid. there is not much Rare can do about it.
@like-500-ninjas I have 2 external 4TB HDDs for backup game storage, and 2 separate 1TB SSDs for active game storage, along with the 1 or 2TB internal SSD that came with the console. Each 1 (minus the internal) ran me about $75-120, depending on various sales and discounts, and I bought them all a few years ago now. They hold my 900+ game(s) library just fine. 🙂
@like-500-ninjas said in Sea of Thieves is a BIG game :):
@galactic-geek said in Sea of Thieves is a BIG game :):
Storage space is much cheaper then it used to be - if you need it, buy more.
This is very true, though I was surprised that buying a 2TB M.2 SSD drive for my PS5 still ran me $270. I have a 5TB external drive for my PS4 that cost me barely $100. Obviously a speed difference, but was just surprised they are still so high.
I think I paid $120 or so for my Xbox 4TB external drive. I can remember when 1TB was thousands of dollars, so yeah....you're absolutely correct.
Those are very very different types of drives and tech. hdds are cheap as hell. Nvme drives, specifically gen 4 drives and the newest gen 4 drives are quite expensive.
For a pc those you can easily get away with sata based ssd or gen 3 nvme drives which are fairly affordable. I would never use an hdd for readily accessible items as they are slow.
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