Such a substantial update surely means a more meaningful overhaul than some tacked on assets, right Frontier?
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30GB is not exceptional for some of the games in my library.
Then again, 30 GB is bigger than some other games entirely, such is life.
Pre-Horizons Elite: Dangerous was ~5GB total and even 3.8 is still sub-20GB.
Baldur's Gate 3 is 140GB. Starfield is 120GB. However, even these bloated titles aren't as bad, proportionally speaking, in terms of cost of storage and the like.
I remember doing a full install of Daggerfall (~450MB) back when HDD space was over $0.50/MB (in FY1996 Dollars), and not even being able to do a full install of the original Baldur's Gate a few years later because it was five CDs (about 3GB) which was more than total capacity of the average HDD in 1998.
Easy there, partner. Money trees haven't flourished yet everywhere...
Money trees are everywhere, it's just that few are fortunate enough to have inherited or stolen one and their seeds have been patented, trademarked, and copyrighted.
Anyway, with 1TB SSDs being available for sub-50GBP/EUR/USD, 30GB of storage shouldn't be terribly problematic even for the masses forced to subsist on the trickle down dregs.
Aren't they so old now, they are starting to be worth something? ... And not just to people awaiting the apocalypse?
Dial-up modems aren't worth much of anything as they have negligible utility, even for retro enthusiasts.
Some other parts are getting pretty pricey though. My retro PC with a Voodoo 4 4500, AWE 64 Gold, and Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500 rev B has a higher resale value than my main RTX 4090 build and I'd probably kill someone (if no one was looking) for a mint condition late Socket 478, Socket A, or S754 board that has DDR DIMM slots, an AGP slot, and a bus mastered ISA slot.
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