Furthermore, high compression serves as an unofficial form of digital preservation. It challenges the modern gaming industry's trend of bloating file sizes due to unoptimized assets and non-compressed audio. It proves that with effort, large-scale software can be packaged far more efficiently than AAA studios care to do. The Dark Side: Security and Stability Risks

This reduction is achieved through several aggressive data manipulation techniques:

Repackers use powerful, non-standard compression tools like LZMA, Zstandard, or proprietary algorithms that scan for redundant code and compress data much more efficiently than standard zip files.