Not everyone has unlimited gigabit fiber. A 100 GB FFXV download might take days on a slow connection. Repacks use advanced compression (e.g., FreeArc, LZMA2) to cut that size in half. Users download the smaller repack, then decompress locally—a trade-off of time for bandwidth.
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