Seems like they haven’t compressed the download yet, if one isn’t up going to do a quick compression and see how small it actually packs to.
Edit; Using 7zip on ultra using the LZMA 2 I manage to only compress the game by another 450mb so its not worth it unless you have a really speed of around 125kb/s.
Steam already does a really good job compressing the game data, i beleave.
The game can’t be played without it being registered and DL’d through Steam, if your intent was to do it without those 2 things.
The download and HDD are the same file sizes. Was looking pretty odd because usually I expect a 5gb download to uncompressed to around 8-10gb but this stays the same.
Also @Sixaxis its possible to launch steam games just by using a shortcut with the same params assigned by steam itself. Usually it looks something like -server “blahblah” -steamident “484xfgvvf48vfg84fg498bg9874z” along with all the optional config options for launch. But in this case I was only testing out if it was truly compressed or not.
I was unaware that applied to MMO games aswell. Will try it when I get home then, arigato.
Uncompressed ToS distribution size is aprox 5.8Gb.
Compressed;
-rwxrwx—+ 1 * * 5.3G Oct 25 01:56 TreeOfSavior.rar
-rwxrwxr–+ 1 * * 5.6G Oct 25 02:03 TreeOfSavior.tar.bz2
-rwxrwxr–+ 1 * * 5.6G Oct 25 01:56 TreeOfSavior.tar.gz
-rwxrwx—+ 1 * * 5.6G Oct 25 01:55 TreeOfSavior.zip