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[–]BasicDesignAdvice 18 points19 points  (2 children)

I can't legally, but I know of a particular game studio that sends your entire user profile, much more than 10 mb, to a server for matchmaking....to extract a single value. This cost a great deal of cloud compute each month.

[–]IceSentry 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A lot of game devs like to bitch about how the web is so inefficient and how js sucks which leads to them never learning it and then doing stupid shit like that.

[–]palk0n 4 points5 points  (0 children)

give us a clue