Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha

I started with small, so you can

Good luck!

If you don't want it upload it somewhere and share it, every collection has worth.

A lot of old mobile games become lost media. Absolutely 100% worth it. I would honestly recommend you to see if you have some lost media in there

I have 500 gigs of media(sitcoms and movies)

No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.

I think many would be incompatible or will be, soon

Make sure to have different versions of Android on tap as well. Custom roms from XDS would be a good place to start.

for only 8 gigs i wouldn't even bother thinking about it tbh

Anything you find value in keeping safe is worth saving

It's worth it to hoard anything.

Except for CP of course.

Share them so no more get deleted

Keep

Update: I am fairly new to the nature of this sub and I realized I made a mistake. I should have asked if anyone here wants to hoard these files for me as I am already clearing my APK files. Tbf I havent touched these apks for almost 7+ years.

For additional context, I am not rich and I only have 2TB storage for data hoarding.

Ooh, so much better versions of games you have

Considering how often a game or app gets taken down from the play store or simply refuses to install because its not been updated for your version of android, (even though the game will likely work just fine) I would highly recommend archiving APK files.

How do you keep up with updates?

The biggest problem is all the data that's lost because many games are sideloading content/updates on their own. So we need not only the apk's (which are also important of course) but all the extra stuff/real content which has to be dumped from the devices.

Do you have any Jackass or Jackass related games?

if you enjoy hoarding stuff like this then it's worth it. 8GB of space for such a massive archive is really not that much, so it's not like it is costing you anything to archive them.

If you don't want to hold on to these files for whatever reason, upload them somewhere such as archive.org then other people can hoard them if they choose to do so. I bet there is something in there that someone has been looking for, and I guess that's what hoarding data is all about, making sure that media, in this case games, don't get lost to time like many have.

Yes

Absolutely, I got drives full of all sorts from the last 20 years

This is gonna bite you in the ass one day.

I would say yes.... for the following reasons:

- some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc...

- then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices

- perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?

So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)