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Subject: Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:20:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:05 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:10:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 07:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> On 08/07/2025 17:11, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>> As a follow up:
>>>> 
>>>> PCGamesN has an article* on the very subject, pointing to the data of
>>>> the June 2025 Steam Hardware survey** where Valve reports that storage
>>>> is increasingly becoming an issue for gamers. 15% of gamers survey
>>>> have less than 100GB free on their drives; 25% have less than 250GB
>>>> free. That's space for one or two modern "big" games (or about half of
>>>> a full install of MS Flight Sim 2020 ;-).
>>>> 
>>>> Modern games do require a lot of disk space --all those high-res
>>>> textures and sound files are storage hogs-- but developers /could/ be
>>>> a bit less profligate with our hard-drives if they needed to be. I
>>>> don't NEED multiple language files for every game installed on my
>>>> computer (or, worse, multiple cinematic video files with different
>>>> languages); the developers could give us a choice of which we want
>>>> when we install (some developers do just that, and offer the other
>>>> language packs as free DLC should we suddenly desire to play Call of
>>>> Halo LXXIV in Swahili, or something).
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe this survey will start making them realize the necessity.
>>>> 
>>>
>>> I've got 1.5TB SSD + 1TB HDD and find that is pretty much enough as I 
>>> don't tend to play the bit hitters when it comes to storage so I can 
>>> have more than enough games installed and then occasionally do some 
>>> house cleaning if it get below 0.5TB free.
>>>
>>> It's one of the things that's nice about Steam, it can take some time 
>>> but reinstalling a game is just easy and you even have cloud saves as well.
>>
>>
>>Yeah, but also I have a small enough library that I can fit it on
>>internal storage with a fair amount left.
>
> You have failed The Number. ;-)

Oh, I just mostly play more indie games and stuff, my laptop is way
underpowered for modern games and also Linux.

> I'm afraid to know how much space it would take to install all the
> games in my Steam library (much less /all/ my games). More space than
> I have available by at least two orders of magnitude, I would guess.
>
> But that's only for now. I remember struggling in the 90s trying to
> get space enough for games. Now, I have pretty much every DOS-era game
> installed onto a single hard-disk. One day soon, I hope, I'll be able
> to say the same for games of the 2020s. ;-)


Once we get petabyte drives...
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