goodeye8

Just take some basic safety steps, like discharging the capacitor and you’ll be fine

You already lost the average gamer at “discharging the capacitor”.

Because the verification system doesn’t take performance into consideration at all. It’s more of a “how much effort does it take to get the game running” indicator.

Young me got that lesson when trying to play ARMA 2 on a 5400RPM HDD. It would run 60FPS if I didn’t move but as soon as I started moving the game started stuttering. When I installed it on a 7200RPM HDD the game no longer had any performance issues.

It all comes down to what specs the game was designed for and I imagine most modern open world games are designed for SSD-s. Putting them on HDDs will absolutely have a negative effect.