Galacticare just got the 1.03 update today. Somehow, the game triples in size. What the heck are you doing, GOG or Brightrock?

Is this legit or mistake?

I don't own it and I gotta say this is scary.

My bet is that they added voiced translations to the game.

It looks like someone has already asked about the GOG version on Steam forums. I sent a support ticket as well. I hope this is a mistake. The steam version looks alright.

Looking at the patch notes, I would take the scary bet over the introduction of additional voice files bet, it's all minor fixes in a "small update." I'm quite interested to know the circumstances behind this now.

I would bet the same, but the gamecard still says only English is supported (voice; other languages with text only), and the size is listed as 24 GB (which of course might mean the installed version with only one set of audio files, while the humungous offline installer includes all the various languages in one big pack).

I just hate how games have audio in several languages. Do Spanish and Italian people really HAVE TO have all the dialogue voice-acted for their languages? Can't they read subtitles, if they don't understand English? It is not like I ever get Finnish voice acting either, and frankly I prefer it that way.

If you really insist on having voice-acted audio in 12 different world languages including hindi, persian and arabic, use AI instead, to generate the voice acting on the fly. That should take much less space than actual voice files in various languages.

And why on earth do voice files take dozens of gigabytes anyway?!? Can't they compress them to mp3 or something? Do we really need some uncompressed 12-channel multistereo FLAC audio for mere speech? Ooh, it is so hi-fidelity that I can clearly hear the lisp of the voice actor!

It just seems so stupid that nowadays mere audio (speech) seems to take the bulk of storage space in games.

BTW, was that change of size both the installed size, or the offline installer size?

Thanks for the quick responce

I really appreciate you developers replying to the thread and fixing it. Thank you! It looks like it was the install size for offline and Galaxy.

Id laugh myself silly if someone goofed and uploaded the source code or the dev kit xD

edit: typo

Now the offline installer is 4.1GB instead of 24GB, which is a plus.

25.3 GB ⇒ 105.6 GB ⇒ 4.4 GB
That doesn't sound right, either...

source:
https://www.gogdb.org/product/2031000462#changelog

Especially since it is supposed to be a sane 12 GB.