Nomadski wrote:
Files will be compacted for ease of download, extracted when installed fully. Im sure you will see a significant size increase.
We're still talking about gamefiles, though (many of which have their own inherent compressions - e.g. image formats, 3d models - and don't really compress any further efficiently). I don't think I've ever seen a modern game with compressed size of less than 80% of normal - being generous and allowing a 3/4 compression, we're still at, what, 5.something gigs? That's still a small size for a modern game.
Also, doesn't steam unpack the data instantly? The installation size on disk should be the final game size once it's been downloaded - so if that's 4.4gigs, then that's 4.4 gigs.