They have a few options, right?Ī) Give a compressed texture pack that more PC users will be able to play out of the box, but could ultimately limit how long people want to continue playing the game based on texture alone.ī) Give a completely uncompressed and unoptimized texture pack that fewer people will be able to use out of the box, but we know modders are going to tweak it no matter what so let's just give them the original assets and many people will still be able to use it and we can still future-proof the game for longer.Īnd to counter the point that people often make about user mods being preferable to vanilla textures, I don't think that user mods are the end-all for making a game look better. I reckon they're playing the long game here.
