Re: Prime Gaming 16 April 2025

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:43:59 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

You don't have to install them on either Epic or Amazon, they'll still
be in your library to download.

God, can you imagine thinking you had to download all the free games
we get and keep them installed on your hard-drive or you lose them?

Epic has given away more than 500 games over the past six years. I
don't know the average size in disk-space for each game, but Epic has
given away some truly-large disk-stuffers over the years, so I
wouldn't be surprised if that average was 25GB or higher. Assuming you
nabbed each freebie, you'd need a >12GB drive just to store your free
Epic games.

And then another one for all the Amazon games. ;-)

(Also, that doesn't include any space for save-games, some of which
can get quite huge these days. Maybe throw in a third 12GB for that
;-)

Then again, maybe it would not require that much space. My GOG
collection --which has significantly more games in count-- weighs in
at about 1/3 that in disk-usage. Of course, the vast majority of those
games are Good OLD games, from an era when games were distributed on
CD-ROM or floppy, so disk-usage was much less than even most Indie
games (e.g., "Overcooked 2" alone weighs in at 10GB). So maybe it's
not a fair comparison.

I wonder if there is a way to calculate how much disk space I'd need
if I installed all my Steam games. I suspect that number would be...
large ;-)