Poll #30 To HD or not to HD

Heyo!

Got a question for you about your preferences on quality vs size.

I'll need to give a little background information for this poll. When making renders, they are created as png files at sizes that usually range from 1.5MB to 2.5 MB or so.

I convert these to webp images with a minimum of compression added in, this reduces file size by ~75%. For a specific example, in episode 7 the original images are 1,81 GB, while the compressed images are 416 MB. Quite the difference, yeah?

I have, however, not been all that happy with the quality. I've made various attempts at using sharpness filters, since otherwise facial features and skin textures sometimes disappear entirely.

A large reason why I've been so concerned with size is that it's rather difficult to upload larger sized files to share with others. Well, since I now pay for Gofile, that's actually not much of an issue anymore, so I've been thinking that I might want to change the images to lossless compression instead.

Lossless compression maintains a much higher quality, but only reduces file size by something like ~33%. For example, if I do that for episode 7 the size might go from 416 MB to anywhere between 800-1300 MB. Don't know exactly since I haven't tried it yet, lossless compression takes a lot longer.

In other words, I expect the total file size of the game to double.

The question then is as thus: Do you guys want the higher quality at the cost of size? Or do you prefer things as they are? In theory I could try doing both in separate projects, but that's honestly really annoying and I'd prefer not to. I'll put an option for both on the poll anyway, but I will not make any promises.

I still have the pngs for every episode except the first one, not sure where those went, so I could take a day to redo the compression of every image in the game. The earlier episodes might not see much change, since my rendering skills were subpar back then, but later ones would look significantly better.