This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 314 - 203: Hard Drive Crisis
"You mean that when NPCs evolve, the game client becomes more bloated?"
"Exactly!"
Chen Ba frowned and said, "When NPCs evolve from level 1 to 9, no additional resources are generated, because the client already includes those parts."
"But when NPCs evolve to level 10, the game will generate some new resource files..."
This process is quite hidden.
So hidden that Chen Ba didn’t notice it at first, and regular players would pay even less attention to this detail. After all, everyone’s focus is more on the in-game experience, so who cares about changes outside the game?
When hundreds of gigabytes, or even terabytes, of hard disk space are secretly occupied by the game by a gigabyte or two, would anyone really notice?
Even if they did notice, they wouldn’t think it’s a problem with the game’s core, but rather suspect that another update was made.
"Is there really such a thing..."
Lu and Yang Dong were shocked after hearing this and quickly opened their computers to check the remaining storage space on their hard drives.
"Wow, did it really get bigger?"
"196.74GB, are you kidding me? I remember the ’Global Evolution’ client wasn’t this big, how much has it expanded?"
After checking the game file size and confirming that Ba wasn’t lying but speaking the truth, Lu’s eyes widened.
The game file is almost 200G!
It sounds somewhat okay, acceptable?
Don’t forget, according to Ba, as long as the NPCs in ’Global Evolution’ continue to evolve, the client files will keep expanding.
200G isn’t the end, it’s even a starting point. At this rate of expansion, it might not take long before it becomes 500GB, 1TB...
"The speed of file expansion depends on the speed of NPC evolution and the number of NPCs above level 10."
Chen Ba explained, "In other words, with the current trend, the longer time goes on, the larger the game files will become, until the hard drive is filled."
"What happens when it’s full?"
"Do you even need to ask? Of course, it’s missing game files, and the game can’t be opened or run normally!"
At this point, Chen Ba was at his wit’s end.
Hundreds of thousands of players banding together to form an army, besieging the outnumbered NPCs. As they played, they ran out of hard drive space...
Who could handle that?
It turns out that this is the NPCs’ strongest move: continuously evolving to occupy the already tight storage space, making it difficult for players to enter the game, conquering without a fight!
...
Most players haven’t realized the issue of ’Global Evolution’ game files continuously expanding with NPCs.
But there are a few who have noticed this insignificant detail.
For example, Cui Dafu!
Cui Dafu is 30 years old this year and works as a high school physics teacher. During holidays or when resting at home, he likes to play games to relax.
It’s not strange...
Teachers are human too, and besides, he’s so young. Who says young teachers like him can’t play games?
In fact, not only does Cui Dafu play games, but he’s quite good at it. There was a time when he roamed around wreaking havoc in ’Star Emperor’. If it weren’t for his age, he might actually have a shot at going pro or something.
Of course, that’s just a joke.
After all, he’s well-educated and got the teacher certification, so even if he had this chance, he probably wouldn’t become a professional e-sports player.
Earning money is one thing, but that’s a young person’s game!
Moreover, only a handful of those at the top of the industry pyramid make a lot of money among professional players, and others can barely make ends meet.
Being a teacher is still better...
After all, it’s been Cui Dafu’s dream since he was young. The sense of responsibility standing on the podium and the rewarding experience of teaching children are more valuable to him than mere money.
’Global Evolution’ is a game Cui Dafu just got this winter vacation.
He’s been playing for quite a while, with over 100 hours of game time. His impression of the game is that it’s okay, decent for passing the time and somewhat fun.
But just two days ago, his teacher’s unique attention to detail led him to discover something quite strange.
The hard drive space is continuously shrinking!
Yes.
After all, Cui Dafu is just a teacher, his salary isn’t that high, so his computer setup isn’t as great as one might think.
Most of the budget went to graphics cards and other major components, so the hard disk and RAM are just middling. Especially the SSD, which only has 1TB of space.
That’s more than enough!
Cui Dafu doesn’t spend much time on the computer, and he doesn’t just download anything randomly. He just plays a few games and occasionally edits some documents.
Logically speaking, for a player with his needs, a 1TB solid-state drive should never be full. But now he’s facing a situation where there’s only a few gigabytes left.
What’s going on?
In response to this anomaly, Cui Dafu immediately performed a major scan of his computer’s hard drive to find out what was occupying the storage space.
The result was that ’Global Evolution’ took up as much as 194.6GB.
Is this game really that big?
If Cui Dafu remembers correctly, this game wasn’t this big when downloading, was it?
Feeling deeply puzzled, Cui Dafu hesitated about whether to uninstall other games to free up space, but when he woke up the next day, he was shocked by what he saw.
The ’Global Evolution’ game file, originally 194GB, had expanded to 196GB overnight...
Cui Dafu was certain that over the past night, the game didn’t have any updates, and he hadn’t received any update notifications.
So the question is!
He didn’t do anything, so where did these extra 2GB of game files come from?
