joppo: "See, if you're a smart pirate you won't want our bloatware in your system. That's a punishment that we only want to inflict in our loyal paying customers."

wpegg: It got me thinking - with the digital download market becoming so prevalent, but these games adding more and more high res content, how big will they get?

Nicole28: I think it's retarded. Is there a need for splashed out graphics the size of a movie theater screen? The last Triple AAA game I bought was Dragon's Age Inquisition, and the installation size was around 26GB, and it looked terrifically gorgeous if you tune the graphics up to ultra. So, at a heightened point, twice that size would suffice (DAI is a decently sized open-world title, with a lot of land area and quests to do).

Another point, is due to the corruption of internet services in a lot of the west (and lack of modernization in the 2nd/3rd worlds). Speeds are slow except in the city, and they charge you an arm and leg for it, with a lot of bandwidth caps. This is different from the top asian cities where internet is consolidated, speeds are optic-fiber fast and often sold in cost-effective unlimited packages. Because if everyone is able to have speedy internet, the size of games would probably be a further away concern. But that will usher in a new era of game streaming, the ultimate DRM. Heh.