“This Is Not Okay” – Players Get Mad After Finding Out Even Starfield Weighs Less Than the Latest NBA 2K Games!

In the 21st century, games went through revolutionizing changes. From fine-tuning graphics to resource utilization, developers tried their best to ensure games ran on all the hardware devices perfectly without much storage needs. As a result, fans spotted Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate 3, which offered an unthinkable amount of content without causing much stress to the fans about storage needs. 

While the majority of developers are always on the edge of optimizing their games so that fans do not worry, it looks like some companies still lag behind this optimization. The recent Reddit comparison between Starfield and 2K games brought fans’ frustration over a few developers not paying attention to game optimization well. 

Fans find 2K games more storage need than Starfield “not okay”

Recently a Reddit user shed light on some game’s improper optimization, which lands players in storage-related trouble. While the majority of the next-gen console devices offer great storage for fans, recent game titles also demand huge storage spaces for containing the game’s vast contents. However, some big developers like Bethesda believed in-game optimization. That is why despite Starfield’s unimaginable contents, the game needed only 101GB storage on Xbox. But it didn’t look like a set standard for others. 

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This Reddit user’s post contained a screenshot, which showed 2K’s two famous basketball titles NBA 2k23 and NBA 2k24 taking almost 70 and 60 GB extra storage spaces than Starfield. Now following Starfield’s open-world platform and huge immersion features, fans are totally surprised how it managed to function in less space than 2K games. While fans are surprised, they also felt- “This is not okay.“

Fans are extremely disappointed with games’ storage needs these days

Since the Reddit post was made, fans expressed their disappointment over developers not paying much attention to the game’s optimization. In the comment thread, fans were spotted referring to Baldur’s Gate 3 as a great example of optimized games. 

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Most of the people agreed that 2K games are poorly optimized and so these games would need more storage than many big productions- “Because the game is very poorly optimized.” Some people felt that it was a market tactic of the developers. 

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Some also stated their surprise as their Xbox X requires 139 GB for Starfield’s installation. However, people corrected them saying that it is higher than the Xbox S series’ optimized version- “StarField is a 139 gig, idk why yours says 101.” People suggested deleting old titles to accommodate new games. 

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Some fans also believed that microtransactions can be the cause of Starfield weighting down than 2K games. 

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Starfield’s less storage certainly shows Bethesda’s creative approach to optimizing the game for all devices. Now it is kind of unfair to compare 2K games with Starfield following Starfeld’s massive budget and time. Also, NBA 2K24 performed really worse on Steam receiving horrible rates. However, the Xbox device’s 1 TB storage is quite enough to accommodate a few favorite titles together. So, don’t worry and start your constellation journey with Starfield available on both Xbox and PC Game Pass.

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