I recently picked up Far Cry 5 from Epic for $4.99 using the $10 coupon and linked it to my UPlay account. Today, i decided to download the game from UPlay and got a very pleasant surprise. They game me the OPTION of downloading just the normal textures for 35Gb or the HD texture pack for an additional 30Gb. I am very happy with UPlay to let me decide what is best for me and my internet and PC setup. I watched a Youtube video that compared the versions and decided that the normal textures will be good enough for me and saved myself 30Gb of un-necessary download and storage. With modern games getting larger every year and internet server speeds not keeping up, this is a fantastic step forward by UPlay. If Red Dead Redemption 2 had this option, i might be tempted to buy it, but currently at 150Gb download, i'm just not interested, same goes for Call of Duty 2019, Final Fantasy 15. With games getting larger every year, saving 50% download time and 50% storage space is HUGE (150GB vs 75Gb). I hope future AAA titles will start giving this option.

I'd always want the best textures, but it is kind of crazy games are like 100-150GB now and look barely any better than the ones that are 20-30GB. I'm replaying Dragon Age Inquisition and even with "ultra textures" and 3 expansions it's still like 30GB, and looks just as gorgeous as RDR2 does for the most part.

Fallout 4 has a High Resolution Texture Pack as a free DLC, just download and install if you want to use

This would be really nice to have.

Great idea and be able to remove 4k videos too. I agree 100 percent. Dead Space 2 looked amazing and it was only 8Gb....those were the days :)

Sorry, but this made me laugh.....only 8Gb.......I remember games being 20meg and thinking at the time, must be a bloody big game.

Heck games when I started were barely a few kilobytes! Heck, my first foray into graphics was UDGs, 8x8 girds which could be on or off to makes shapes.
I do remember C&C demo, I had to pkzip across 7 3.5” floppies, and then one failed!
Size is subjective though, you can have a game which encompasses the entire universe, but being ascii graphics is quite small storage space wise. Or you can have far cry 5/new dawn, which are pretty bad all round, but are vast storage wise.

You should try out ARK , only 220gb atm.

There is also the audio files that takes a lot of place, if a game have a lot of different languages, the size will increase too, so they should also let you download only the languages you need.

You must be 102 or so and at least 2 years older than me:)

The method suitable for GOG would be in the form of free dlcs.

A mere fiver for Far Cry 5?! Now that game plummeted in value really fast.

Or just different install bin files just for the differed parts.

No wonder when they push out nearly the same games each year.

You mean a professional installer with componentised parts for localisation, extra graphics, additional content etc. all working at maximum performance. Don’t be daft these publisher spend all their money on dreadful system destroying drm and online data hooks to care what end user experience is. Its UPay not UPlay!

it is very cheap to buy a sata HD, 4 or 5 Tb's and move files between your HD and SSD or M.2

that said, options are most of the time more pleasant then being forced into something

also, i don't have a clue if uplay allows the changing of files. Steam and Origin allow for game file transportation from within their program, GoG works with autodetect maps where you can freely copy games to another drive for gog to have them reconfirmed again if working with galaxy