Gaming - Any developer born after 1993 can't optimize games... all they know is post-processing, hire hollywood actors, patch, add microtransaction make dlc & lie

Developers still optimise the game, but the optimisation is focused on things different than the filesize – the best possible framerate and the required considerations. Streaming-in is a prevalent tech these days, and thus to save on CPU time all the textures and sounds are uncompressed and are as close to raw format as possible.

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