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As a guy who has a lot of experience with old emulated Nintendo games and things like that, I keep a bunch of ROMs on a cloud storage service for backup. But all those files add up and eat storage space. For a service like this, do you just have the installers themselves stored for easy installing/uninstalling? How big are those files, for storage purposes? I have a lot of PC games, but, you know, I don’t like paying for all of them. Are you able to have tons of “alternative” Steam games or does storage space run out quick?
This program is used to transfer your games from your own server, to your computer. So you can store as many games as you can afford to.
Maybe this is the use case I'm not understanding. Do many people have servers that they just keep software they're not using on? I mean this makes sense with movies and maybe music, but I feel like I've never heard of this with games and such.
Plex for games. That's how I'm reading this. The advantage to me being that when I have a LAN party I can say "Grab Quake 3 from this URL" instead of "grab Quake 3 from this network folder". Not a huge thing. But it might help not over sharing.
I think you've got cooler friends than I do.
I keep a few on my nas that i like going back too, fo4, sims, gta5, stuff like that. but navigating to a network share has never been an issue.