if i had to guess two things: 1. big battle royale maps need huge sizes, almost all battle royale games are over 100 GB 2. skins and other assets used in promotions. lots of them. stored in high quality for high end users and uncompressed to decrease load times.
fortnite has been going on for 8 years i think and in each season there have been at least one or two promotion or crossover events, and a shit ton of skins (which were more than they could show on their storefront so they could cycle the skins into and out of the shop to create a FOMO effect). it just adds up in the 40 seasons or so fortnite has been running. and there is no end in sight so get ready to break the 200 GB barrier in a year or two.
The OG world of Warcraft map is much, much bigger than Fortnite, there’s a ton more skins of weapons, armor, enemy sprites, etc, and the OG install is probably <15GB.
you cannot compare uncompressed 4k textures with probably compressed 720p textures, they are orders of magnitude bigger in size. and the OG wow map pre flight is basically a bunch of valleys carved with mountains there are massive gaps in the map geometry (it’s still big though just not as big).
if i had to guess two things: 1. big battle royale maps need huge sizes, almost all battle royale games are over 100 GB 2. skins and other assets used in promotions. lots of them. stored in high quality for high end users and uncompressed to decrease load times.
fortnite has been going on for 8 years i think and in each season there have been at least one or two promotion or crossover events, and a shit ton of skins (which were more than they could show on their storefront so they could cycle the skins into and out of the shop to create a FOMO effect). it just adds up in the 40 seasons or so fortnite has been running. and there is no end in sight so get ready to break the 200 GB barrier in a year or two.
The OG world of Warcraft map is much, much bigger than Fortnite, there’s a ton more skins of weapons, armor, enemy sprites, etc, and the OG install is probably <15GB.
you cannot compare uncompressed 4k textures with probably compressed 720p textures, they are orders of magnitude bigger in size. and the OG wow map pre flight is basically a bunch of valleys carved with mountains there are massive gaps in the map geometry (it’s still big though just not as big).
Fortnite is a cartoonish style, low-res game. I can compare the textures if they look comparable to my eye