During the install, his laptop fan whirred loudly. The progress bar froze at 33.4% for ten minutes. Alex almost cancelled it. But he remembered DataDribbler’s final tip: “Compression is like origami. Unfolding takes time. Be patient.”

Then, he found a friendly tech forum called . A user named “DataDribbler” had posted a guide titled: “How to Squeeze the Beautiful Game.”

At 37 minutes, the bar jumped to 100%.

One evening, while watching real match highlights, Alex typed into a search bar: “Download PES 2021 PC Highly Compressed.”

The first few links were dark alleys of the internet. Pop-ups screamed he’d won a virus. Fake "download buttons" led to sketchy surveys. Alex felt lost.