{"id":92701,"date":"2026-11-06T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92701"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:38:46","slug":"nier-automatas-file-size-now-reflects-how-good-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92701","title":{"rendered":"Nier Automata\u2019s File Size Now Reflects How Good It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/nier-automata\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"304697\">Nier Automata<\/a> is my favorite game of all time, and I&#8217;ve been telling everyone I know to play it for nearly a decade. On PC, however, Square Enix accidentally made that a little bit more difficult, because the game&#8217;s latest patch ballooned the game&#8217;s file size by more than 600%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update, tested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpgsite.net\/news\/21708-new-nier-automata-steam-update-additional-language-support-install-size-bug-dlc\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rpgsite.net\/news\/21708-new-nier-automata-steam-update-additional-language-support-install-size-bug-dlc\">RPG Site<\/a>, takes what was a pretty reasonable 50GB file size and raises it to 366GB. It appears to be incorrectly assigning a file size of more than 40GB to each piece of DLC. The patch itself was supposed to simply add three new languages to the Steam version: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eIMZYgb85xg  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are currently investigating the cause and working to resolve the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience,&#8221; Square Enix said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/524220\/view\/704410206513135933?l=english\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/524220\/view\/704410206513135933?l=english\">post on Steam<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the giant file size is linked to the different pieces of DLC, you can temporarily resolve the issue by going to &#8220;Properties&#8221; and &#8220;DLC&#8221; on Steam and unselecting them. Of course, this also means you won&#8217;t be able to enjoy that DLC, so if you mostly want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/you-can-fight-square-enixs-ceo-in-nier-automatas-n\/1100-6449387\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/you-can-fight-square-enixs-ceo-in-nier-automatas-n\/1100-6449387\/\">fight the former CEO of Square Enix<\/a> in the game, you&#8217;re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nier Automata is my favorite game of all time, and I&#8217;ve been telling everyone I know to play it for nearly a decade. On PC, however, Square Enix accidentally made that a little bit more difficult, because the game&#8217;s latest patch ballooned the game&#8217;s file size by more than 600%. The update, tested by RPG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":92703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92701","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\/92701"}],"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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92704,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92701\/revisions\/92704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}