I’d very much like, with the ever and rapidly increasing client size, to have the option of deleting the cinematics. They really just sit there and waste precious hard drive space.
It could be an advanced option, as yes we all know it’s the default to play it extra safe protecting less knowledgeable users from messing up there install.
This game isn’t generally aimed at users with high-end PCs, and those that have hard disk space in abundance.
Disk space isn’t about having high-end PCs or “have hard disk space in abundance”. Just buy more.
You mean SSD? Don`t tell you still use HDDs 
spend £15 or on a new 128gb SSD and move it to that. Most Motherboards have enough space for 4 or 5 SATA HDDs or devices.
I like cinematics
Then don’t delete them. 
I guess I see the point. There’s a lot of content in WoW that you never visit where it’d be nice to just stream it in if you ever do. Cool tech, but I’m not sure I’d put it very high on the priority list.
What a ridiculous response.
Funny you entirely failed to mention the very real fact WoW, and it’s success indeed, is it’s compatability with very modest PC setups.
Oh and disk space is in fact about “having hard disk space in abundance.” Kind of like the colour red is about red.
“Just buy more” Well, that’s just a silly reply because a user should not have to do this for files that are just sitting there wasting disk space. We ain’t talking about essential game files here, and cinematics are generally only viewed once.
I do mean the full CGI ones that play at the front-end, because yes there will be some messiness deleting all the ones that play during gameplay like those crappy pre-recorded game engine cutscenes that we have to endure increasingly more often these days. Yea, they’re a waste of space after you see them once and are probably most of the reason why the client has ballooned so much in the last few years.
Try to install CoD Warzone and rethink that quoted opinion.
WoW increasing its file size by ± 10 gb per expansion is all it does.
My current WoW folder is around 75 gigabytes.
Were a simple CoD Warzone patch can be as big as 40-50 gigabyte 
So for the current ‘‘issue’’ you wanna fix a 120 gigabyte SSD and only install WoW onto it will still keep you safe for atleast 3 more expansions or around 6 years.
With the current prices of SSDs we are talking about 10 quid or so you did ‘‘shell out’’ to keep runing WoW on your modest PC.
Where as any other game or upgrade requires a new GPU or CPU way earlier than WoW does. (and increasing the amount of money needed to keep playing way higher than that 1 SSD for now)
Its just not such a big deal tbh, and i highly doubt removing cinematics will remove so much data that the file size of the folder even ends up being half of its current size.
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