{"id":92672,"date":"2026-11-06T06:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92672"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:13:20","slug":"nier-automata-dev-working-on-fix-for-patch-that-accidentally-bloated-the-game-size-to-366gb-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92672","title":{"rendered":"Nier: Automata Dev Working on Fix for Patch That Accidentally Bloated the Game Size to 366GB on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/nier-automata\">Nier: Automata<\/a> got a patch yesterday to add support for more languages to the game (Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese), but it accidentally bloated the game file size to 366GB on PC. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-preload-times-and-install-size-confirmed-rockstar-announces-physical-cover-art-poster-and-map-of-leonida\">1.5 copies of GTA 6<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>A bug caused the entire game to be applied to every DLC pack included in the PC edition, ballooning the overall file size to Call of Duty-esque heights. Nier was previously around 50GB to download. <\/p>\n<p>The game saw a wave of negative reviews come in on Steam following the patch, with players complaining that they were unable to play or, you know, download any other games.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"the-nier-automata-mod-that-fooled-the-world-ign-inside-stories\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Claude, please add new language support for my game, no mistakes, masterpiece. It&#8217;s 366 gigabytes now? Splendid,\u201d said one review, making a joke about Square Enix using AI. \u201cUndeniably good game which I&#8217;ve had to remove from my computer because some genius, presumably misusing automated tools, packed it into itself six times over, making a 360 gig install file. I&#8217;ll recommend this game after it is fixed,\u201d said another. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the funniest part about the \u2018slight\u2019 issue with the new update for language support is the Steam page still lists a 50gb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nier: Automata got a patch yesterday to add support for more languages to the game (Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese), but it accidentally bloated the game file size to 366GB on PC. That\u2019s 1.5 copies of GTA 6! A bug caused the entire game to be applied to every DLC pack included in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":92674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92676,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92672\/revisions\/92676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}