mrsmr2 wrote:

And it was only dlc (that I didn’t own) that was being downloaded each time.

This is the most irritating practice for me. Whatever the reason for doing this is it needs to piss right off.

ChopperByrne wrote:

Pretty certain it's because Microsoft and Sony charge them more for patches than a fresh dump of the game.

That's interesting, never heard that before. There must be something like that going on, or down to the delivery methods they use, because it shouldn't have to be like that. The process on steam for updating builds is really simple and does all the clever stuff for you so that only things that have changed are uploaded/downloaded. but then that means they're storing lots of revisions of the same game, rather than just one copy of the latest build.