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Microsoft just raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $29.99/month, and fans aren’t happy. Many are canceling, some are calling for a boycott, and even Microsoft’s website is struggling to keep up.

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago

You can get huge HDDs for about $15~20/TB (US) right now -- possibly even better priced if you spend more than the 30 seconds I did looking. You can get up to 30TB in a single disk now if you really want.

I have hundreds of games I've bought on GOG over the last decade or so. I have a copy of the offline installers for every single one of them, and they can fit on a single HDD. Literally the first thing I do when I buy a game is download the offline installer so that it's mine forever.

If you give a shit about preserving the games you bought and don't do the bare minimum of downloading the offline installer for what you paid for... that's not a problem with GOG; that's on you.