Hey, what if I want to play Baldur's Gate 2 again later this year? I mean, it needs to be on here! Just in case!
You get the internet, like, once a year or something? But on a more serious note, I agree with rusty: if the connection is great you don't need anything being installed, at all. My own screen just non-cheating one, forgot to uninstall them all except for Colony Ship with its updates (as an indicator to check logs etc) and Atom TG which I need access to due to my help in making a guide. On the other hand, if the connection is shit then you basically have no choice but to install every game you might wanna play at any time.
No I get this. Just consider it my personal form of brain worms. I think it comes from being old and used to things being on disk and (much later) on dial up, etc.
Same. I got so many installed games because I prefer having them on disk. Also, I only uninstall games once I finish them or when I really need some space.
I still got Far Cry 5 installed despite finishing it some time ago, because I wanna play through the DLCs before uninstalling. But I took a break from the game now, so it's gonna sit on my disk for a couple of months. Uninstalling would gain me 50 gigabytes, but the disk is a 1TB SSD and still has over 130 GB left, so it's not like I need the space right now.
Some games stay installed forever and never get uninstalled, even if I take a years-long break: Thief 2, Civilization 4, Rome and Medieval 2 Total War, Quake, etc. Those tend to be games I play with mods, so I keep them installed in case a new mod comes out that I want to play with it. They're also older games that don't take up a lot of space, so whatever.
Uninstalling a game and then reinstalling it a month later sounds like a dumb idea to me. I'd rather keep it installed all the time until I'm finished with it. Especially with modded games, where reinstalling would also mean installing all my mods again. And I'd have to make sure to backup my saves. Why go through all that trouble when I can just leave the game installed?
My internet connection is decent enough. I can download with 5-6 MB/s, which isn't super fast but acceptable. Still takes me a couple of hours for bigger games (AAAs with 40+ gigs). When it comes to smaller indies that only take a minute or two, with 1GB or less... why uninstall them if they take up that little space, unless I'm definitely finished with them or absolutely need more space? Why go through the trouble of uninstall/reinstall when I can just leave it on my disk until I feel like playing it again?
That's how I end up with hundreds of installed games, and I don't see anything wrong about it.