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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

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[–] crystalcorvid@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'd be willing to bet that the game will be available in a compressed format from a repack site with no content loss. At least 30% smaller. A recent example that I just checked, Forspoken, Original Size: 103.9 GB Repack Size: from 63.6 GB

Before I had an unlimited connection for monthly bandwidth usage I would frequently download an already purchased game from the repack site and then have steam "repair" it. Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War come to mind specifically. Saved so much of my limits at the time.