Re: World of Warcraft used to be under 50 GB install

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.
 

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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.
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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.

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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. ;-)

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. ;-)