Xeshra: Not that troublesome hoarding games unless it is up to 24 TB because such a HDD can cost 500 hard earned coins and several of them are required. I know some people hoarding cars, the entire place is of full of cars... they can barely put down a deckcair at this place anymore, and the scrap is that heavy... they had to use a crane in order to put a broken car on the roof of another car. Data is a pretty compact thing, and even a fat PC is still a small object... compared to a junkyard.
I have a 18TB USB HDD (WD MyBook) specifically for my GOG offline installers. :) Luckily still some terabytes free... Naturally you can also divide them to several HDDs, like I have two 5TB USB HDDs, several 2-3 TB HDDs etc... It would be nice to be able to combine those effortlessly and securely into one big storage pool, by using software RAID with e.g. btrfs or OpenZFS filesystems...
While I have a hoarding tendency when it comes to digital content, especially games, luckily I don't have quite the same tendency for physical objects. I do recycle old PCs and electronics if I don't find meaningful use for them (in fact, by now I should recycle my PS2 console even if it might still actually work; and also recycle my Roland SCC-1 soundcard and CM-32L MIDI module, they are unneeded in this time and age to thanks to superior Munt emulator and General MIDI soundfonts. I admit they probably still are somewhere in the cupboard because I still figured maybe they are worth some money and someone wants them... but nah, to recycling. I'll do it when I bring that massive Apple HD Cinema monitor to recycling too, as it doesn't work anymore.
I still have couple hundred physical PC and console games, but with the PC games I already years ago got rid of the cardboard boxes to save space (I could fit the physical games to like 1/10 of the space by putting the CDs and manuals into small plastic bags). The boxes might have had actual value for collectors if I chose to sell my games, but meh, I didn't feel like trying to sell them nor keep the boxes. I could just as well throw those physical games to trashbin, at least those where I have e.g. a GOG version too. The reason I didn't do it yet was that in the GOG versions, in some cases, there was missing or incomplete soundtrack from the original game; I recall e.g. Total Annihilation being like that, some of the music would cut short or something?
Digital content is fortunately quite easy to keep (hoarding), but it does take money for those hard drives.
Somehow I feel though "hoarding" is in quite many people's genes? For instance, I know lots of normal people who have thousands of old photos in their phone. They don't want to flat out get rid of them because they fear they'd lose something precious, the last photo of their dog or grandma or something, while in reality 99% of the photos are just selfies from 25 different angles.
Apple even had a TV ad recently where they suggested that with the new Apple phone you don't have to try to delete your old photos because the new Apple has so much more space for them, so keep hoarding your photos folks!
EDIT: Oh yeah, this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bks2zGnssMY Shame on you Apple, shame on you, taking advantage of people's hoarding mentality and inability to let the past just be, making money with people needing more and more room for their thousands of selfies... It is mental disease, just like alcoholism and pr0n addiction!
Naturally people claim it is not about hoarding, but them just being lazy to go through several thousand photos, trying to figure out which to keep and which not. Frankly, here AI could really help, identifying pictures which are very close to each other (e.g. taken on the same day and seem to be the same face from several different angles), and offer to semi-automatically remove the ones which seem to be redundant to the AI, and keeping only the photo which seems sharpest, has the best lightning/colors, and the AI deems as most "beautiful" face?
I am not a photo hoarder, I take no selfies and photos of a pizza I ate yesterday. The only photos I take is e.g. if I need to take a note of some sign or written instructions on some paper, or trying to read some food label that is too small to read for my weary eyes, take a photo of it and zoom, old folks' trick. I regularly delete those photos, when they've become irrelevant, sometimes even the same day. I think I have only like 50 photos in my phone, taken over many many MANY years.