~75hrs in and have done tons of crafting. many many times have had my inventory overloaded. have pretty much been through all of the things that users claim contribute to this "bug" but have had no issues whatsoever.

all of my separate save folders(AutoSave-0-9, ManualSave-0-6, QuickSave-0-2) range from 4.2MB - 4.4MB.

have had no issues with saves taking too long to load.

i imagine this is a true problem since many have seemed to experience it.
but i also believe it isn't such a big problem as many claim. most of the times i see this mentioned it is just people complaining about the game in general and this is just one of the many things they always spout off as part of their list.

50 hours, my saves go around 2,7MB, but I see an earlier save in the rescue mission that is 1,1MB, so yeah, save files do grow in size, it seems.

88 hours, been crafting like a one man factory to boot, last save file is only just over 5K

Haven't noticed any increase in loading times from the save size, though obviously it takes longer to load if saved in the middle of Jig Jig street than it does standing on an empty highway in the Badlands.

I... well... mostly have been going over dialog trees and replaying missions to see if things change (dialog and lore junkie here)... so not that far in. I do save excessively and had a backup of act-1's saves so I threw this together. I checked it and yes, occasionally my save file sizes do go down by 1kB... don't know if the game likes my slow play style Rather worrying that there is some doomsday point where the saves just won't work anymore.

00:01 1080 kB
00:40 1228 kB
01:01 1258 kB
01:42 1402 kB
01:47 1401 kB
01:53 1409 kB
02:29 1474 kB
02:33 1470 kB
02:42 1546 kB
04:37 1756 kB
05:51 1772 kB
06:17 1771 kB
07:03 1814 kB
07:41 1827 kB
08:07 1840 kB
08:24 1842 kB
08:46 1848 kB
09:06 1879 kB
09:25 1948 kB
10:57 1960 kB
11:36 1959 kB
11:48 1973 kB
12:26 1981 kB
12:37 1980 kB
12:50 1980 kB
13:09 1974 kB
13:18 1977 kB
13:36 1984 kB
13:54 2044 kB
14:04 2056 kB
14:13 2057 kB

I'm on my second time around. My last save file first time was 5.2 MB after ~ 80 hrs. Currently I'm at the "parade" stage on my second and the size is 4.7 at around ~70 hrs.

Didn't craft at all first time and I had a lot saved in my stash. Second time I'm only crafting quickhacks and selling everything regularly with a mostly empty stash.

I am at 62 hrs and my save file is at 4.34 mb and I have done very little crafting and no exploits at all.

you can buy additional 5mb in the gog store!

todd says: "hi!"