With PC drives become both larger and cheaper, I'm curious to see if people still take the time to uninstall games they no longer play or just keep them piling up.
With a 750GB drive, I currently have 6 games installed.
Hows about you?
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How many PC games do you have installed?
I used to have like 30+ games installed but now I'm running a 120GB SSD so I have to keep games to a minimum. I don't need to play all those games anyway.
Hm about 100, but there is a lot of old stuff like Diablo 1&2, Quake 1-4, TLJ, Monkey Island 1-3, Sam&Max, Grim Fandango etc.. games I don't really play anymore, but since I no longer got a floppy drive I need to keep some of them on my hdd and some are too good to delete. Nostalgic value, you know. ;)
Enough to fill my 40 gig SSD. Morrowind, Rift, GTA4+TBoGT which is due for an uninstall so I can put BC2 on instead, Blops, Quake 1, Solitaire and a few music games I'm trying out. Considered L4D2 again but, ugh, that playerbase.
The limited space of an SSD is good for you. The faster and often non-existent loadtimes are also good for you. In Rift, an SSD is a direct advantage.
42 on Steam
3 on EADM + 2 EA Free to play titles
1 through Windows Live
and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
49 in total if I haven't missed anything. I have 1.44tb remaining on a 1.81tb volume.
80. Thats all my steam games plus about 10 others.
EDIT: (oh yes, that's on a TB HDD. I also have a 250GB which mostly runs windows and backups)
I unistall games which I'm not planning on playing in the near future... Currently I have 7 games installed but I need to unistall Mass Effect 2 because I'm done with the 3rd playthrough. I'm playing only one game right now - Dawn of War 2: Retribution beta. The other 5 games are the unfinished business games... but I probably should uninstall them because I don't plan on playing them until the summer...
I have an update, as I bought Batman: AA, uninstalled some demos and was given BioShock 2 as a gift (installed it but not played it yet) so it's more like this now:
40 on Steam
3 on EADM + 2 EA Free to play titles
2 through Windows Live
and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
So that's 48 titles using up 0.38tb of 1.81tb.
I have only installed what I actually play, so it's just Starcraft II and a bunch of smaller steam games (Rush, Shattered etc.) at the moment.
According to steam I have 31 games installed, but I would say it's probably closer to 35-40 since not all of my games are on Steam. I only have a 350 GB hard drive.
Well over 100 across three hard drives if we're including steam games (I have games installed on my 128GB SSD, a 1TB drive and a 2TB drive). Storage space isn't a big issue though. Even if you have 200 games installed, that probably only ends up being 1TB to 1.4TB of data (since most games are 5-7 gigs or less). Considering I have 10 TB of total space, that's not a big issue.
About 85 games on a 1 TB drive. About 83 are on steam with a couple of blizzard games rounding it out.
Without looking those games are taking up roughly 300-400 gigs.
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