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Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games (kotaku.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (11 children)

You have the same problem with Steam already for years.. I mean you do not have a physical copy anymore. In fact if Steam is down, you might not be able to download, play or play multiplayer. So you own nothing and be happy - WEF.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

And people think I'm crazy for buying physical discs of movies and having 20+ hdds spinning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That is crazy. Why not upgrade to SSDs instead of HDDs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cost per GiB is higher and long term reliability is lower in most scenarios.

The failure scenarios for spinning rust tends to work better with large storage arrays as well.

Not all absolutes, but enough of them are true on a common enough basis that spending the extra on SSD's isn't usually worth it.

If you want some real in depth explanations there's probably a datahoarder community somewhere or reddit if you are so inclined.