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What the hell? Surely someone at their professional game development studio is capable of writing a patcher? It's not black magic.
They probably encrypt the packages so one small change changes the whole file.
It is extra work for them so they make more money by not having a team implementing a patching system that can handle distributing only the changes. They just don't care.
Well, I know this one girl who's really good at repacking shit... maybe she could teach some of their devs!
I'm sure she could teach them to FIT the updates into a much smaller file.
But hosting and letting everyone download the whole file is cheaper for them.
Meh. Ranged download is a thing.
Surely the bandwidth costs alone should be more expensive, no?
I assume the console / game store pays for the bandwidth, not them. No skin off their back