Hopefully, Microsoft and other game developers and distributors will keep this in mind as large games are released in the future. Moving forward games will need to get more modular, especially if games continue to explode in terms of storage requirements. Right now on Steam PC gamers can disable optional HD texture packs for games like Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and more recently Fallout 4, allowing PC players to save storage space by not using high-resolution textures, which can have a limited effect on visuals at low resolutions and simply cannot be used by older hardware with 2GB of VRAM or less. In a world where games are becoming increasingly large, it is important that gamers are able to reduce their game size to make the most out of their SSD and HDD space. This raises a very important question for the Windows 10 Store, as it is undeniable that some gamers would like to reduce this game's storage requirements by only installing desired elements of the game, similar to how several PC version of Call of Duty come with separate Single Player and Multiplayer downloads on Steam. This means that singleplayer-only players will need to spend a lot of time and bandwidth to download and play this game and dedicate a lot more storage space than was previously necessary to play the game.

Gears of War 4 now has a big problem on its hands, as this excessive amount of additional storage is mostly dedicated to the game's multiplayer mode.

Today we have one big example of a game that has become significantly bulkier thanks to post-launch DLC and patches, with Gears of War 4's PC version not taking up over 100GB of system storage, taking up almost 20% more storage space that the game occupied at launch.

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