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Like obviously not for newer cutting edge games but for newer indie games and older AAA games?

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[โ€“] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Much faster, yes. Unfortunately a lot of people have monthly bandwidth caps and a single game could take up a huge chunk of that, so better safe than sorry!

I have a 1TB/month download cap, after which speed is throttled to nearly nothing until the next billing cycle. With several people using the same connection it's hard to know how much we have left, and redownloading a 250GB game could easily push us over.

[โ€“] theboomr@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I don't have a bandwidth cap but my download speed is 40 Mbps max, soooo copying back and forth between HDD and SSD is way faster for me lol.

Plus, it doesn't happen much (if ever) that a game gets delisted/removed, but I prefer having a local copy of game files for games I care about rather than trusting remote servers to always have it available.