think about what you just said very carefully, they have a 4tb drive and it costs $60 per tb for a new SSD. You’re expecting people to just drop at least $240 to replace their working hard drive just because it could be a little bit faster. You can get a 4tb HDD for less than the cost of a 1tb SSD.
And just so I’m not going to respond to a second comment separately, yes some people do need all that space. It can take multiple days to install modern titles over my connection, so uninstalling them to install something else isn’t really an option.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I would need 2tb and they are definitely not $60 for anything but garbage. I’ve bought the bottom of the barrel SSDs before and I’ve had most of them fail.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
Do you REALLY need 2TB though?
$60 gets a Crucial or Patriot SSD, which are definitely not “bottom of the barrel”
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
No, I don’t need a 2tb SSD or a 1tb SSD because the hard drive I have works fine.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
That’s not what I asked, and you know it’s not.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Amazon has a Crucial BX500 2 TB SSD drive for 106 USD
While I fully understand the need for devs to support older hardware, this is also a very low cost upgrade that has a massive impact on user experience. Hell, for 20 something years now there have been articles about how getting an SSD (now nvme) is the biggest noticeable performance improvement someone can do.
As for the topic at hand: I like that they support older systems. But this is also similar to language packs (and high res textures back in the day) where it REALLY should be handled via an opt-in DLC-like system. Because the reason people “need” massive amounts of storage on their gaming systems is BECAUSE of stuff like this. That support for a spinner means the people with SSDs or NVMEs need to spend more disk space on this game which means they need bigger storage which means they start going cheaper and…