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Buy More Memory
Cordova, TN; February 13, in the year of our Lord
2017--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is giving an opinion on
the “Buy More Memory” response to the problem of video game
installations being so large. Why can’t we just play off of the
disc? Previous video games let us play off of discs. Why are we
denied that right now? Why does every game have to install?
There is only so much memory on any of these machines. That
means we are constantly deleting games, and then re-installing
the games months later when we decide to go and play them again.
This would not be an issue if video game companies did not deny
us the right to play off of discs again. This is not progress in
any way shape and form. Why not? It takes too long to install
these modern day video games.
I do not find the mantra of “Buy More Memory” to be valid. Why
should we have to spend more money on more equipment to play
these games? Why can’t the designers come up with an intelligent
design? Better yet why did they go away from the intelligent
design of playing video games off of the discs? Some people tell
me to purchase a new machine. I know there are newer Xbox One
and Playstation 4 video game systems with more memory.
Eventually that could all be used up as well. Especially with so
many video game companies wanting to constantly update their
games. Obviously they can’t get it right the first time, so they
keep monkeying with it. I do not want to constantly purchase new
hard drives, or systems because of poor design from the video
game manufacturers. Why reward those video game companies for
their poor design?
Another issue with the “Buy More Memory” mantra is it requires
the usage of an USB port. Have you looked at the modern day
video game systems? They are lacking severely in the USB port
department. If you want to charge a controller on the system
that takes up one. If you have a peripheral (like Lego
Dimensions portal, Skylanders portal, Disney Infinity portal)
then that takes up another one. Some of these systems only have
two USB ports. That means we have no space for the external hard
drive to plug into. So then I would have to determine which game
installations are on the main system, and which game
installations are on the external hard drive. The more complex
we make these things the more trouble they wind up giving us.
Why can’t these things be kept simple? Why can’t we have some
intelligent design? Playing off of the discs worked marvelously
in the past. Why do we always need to install the games and use
up precious disc drive space?
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming