So my friend and I were going to have a quick blast on Payday 2 on Saturday. Loaded up my laptop and fired up Steam. Straight away, Steam said that Payday 2 needed to download updates in order to play. Fine, thinks I, I'll just wait, but after 20 of downloading, my computer says there's no space on my hard drive.
So I check, and the downloads folder for Steam has hit 17gb and is still going.
I clear as much as I can off my SSD, but it's only 110gb, and payday 2 + this insane update file is taking up nearly half of it.
Eventually, I got to the point where I couldn't delete anything else off my laptop, and Steam was still trying to download the update (21gb and counting).
I gave up. There's no way to play that game now. I checked, and the update is only 4.5gb, but the way it installs is to uncompress itself first, and then delete all the guff, so the interim size can be enormous.
This is why I'm firmly console over PC, because this shit is ridic.