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    4 hours ago

    The thing about compression is you have to process it to decompress it. It may be benificial to people with limited bandwidth, or for peer-to-peer sharing, but it’s probably better for most users for someone like Valve to share the uncompressed version. Bandwidth isn’t the issue it used to be.

    It also makes progressive updates harder. The best you can do is compress each update individually, not the whole package.