Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.
- Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2AEX8wgN
- Game Website: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI (scroll down to ultimate edition to read and see what it contains)
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VI
Edit: VPNs unblocked now. There was a setting I overlooked, my bad. I did not block VPNs intentionally. Sorry. Please vote now if you can (and want to).
open results for 24 hours mark
Not interested 58.95% (293 votes)
Wait until sale 35.01% (174 votes)
Day 1 Standard Edition for 80 Dollars 3.02% ( 15 votes)
Day 1 Ultimate Edition for 100 Dollars 3.02% ( 15 votes)
Total votes: 497
You are not entirely wrong, but you can always delete games which you currently not play. And redownload it later when you want to, provided your internet access is fast enough without a cap to make this strategy viable. I have enough space, but I still delete games often because their constant updates are annoying.
Yeah, depends how long you are likely to not play it. For me a large game is at least an overnight download. Still, quicker than waiting for the weekend to go to a shop.
I fully understand. Because my old internet access was much slower too, where I had to download the entire night and half the day before able to play large games.
Workaround idea:
I think there could be an alternative, at least when using Steam on PC (or Steam Deck). Steam has an option to move games from one place to another. So if you have, you could install game on an external hard drive (not SSD) with plenty of space, that doesn’t cost your arm and legs. Then when you want to play the game again, simple move it with Steam from external drive to your internal SSD. I am not sure if this is possible with Playstation, the Xbox supports it I think. And besides that, some games are playable from slower drives anyway.
I do move games around already, currently in the process of moving from HDD to SSD storage, hence cutting down heavily on large games.
Few years ago I was planning on getting a 4TB SSD when they were getting close to £200. Not a chance now! So instead I am just going to downsize on data capacity instead. Some of the HDDs are approaching a decade of power on time at this point. 1+2TB.
Just today got 2x512GB SATA SSDs second hand. Plan to get a 256GB M.2 for my OS to sit on too, which frees up my current 500GB SATA SSD to join the new SSDs as well. Fairly easy to add more drives later on too, just have to remind myself how the LVM commands work each time.
Tonights job is to add the SSDs to the LVM and remove the HDDs. Might get the M.2 over the weekend and then decide if I go for a new OS install or just copy it over. Probably time I did a fresh install tbh.