MEGA, its shit. stop hosting files there.

[moonhowler1972]

Agreed. Mega has become an utter wank act.

 

[Insomnimaniac Games]

I'm not fond of the limits on Mega, but it's mostly reliable.
Mixdrop, on the other hand, is absolute trash. Every single file I've tried downloading from Mixdrop has set off my antivirus. And that's after fighting past the shitstorm of ads they throw at you. A million ads, then a virus? No thanks. As far as I'm concerned, Mixdrop should be outright banned.
Other ones are annoying, but they at least work. We're downloading shit for free. Beggars can't really be choosers.

And then there's mediafire. Been there since 2006, decade old links still working. How the hell do they do it?

 

[Folda]

I enjoy Mega, but of course only as a once a day type of thing haha

 

[Enot1964]

I'm not fond of the limits on Mega, but it's mostly reliable.
Mixdrop, on the other hand, is absolute trash. Every single file I've tried downloading from Mixdrop has set off my antivirus. And that's after fighting past the shitstorm of ads they throw at you. A million ads, then a virus? No thanks. As far as I'm concerned, Mixdrop should be outright banned.
Other ones are annoying, but they at least work. We're downloading shit for free. Beggars can't really be choosers.

Anyway, there's always torrents.

 

[Fuchsschweif]

I've never once had a problem with mega, uploading or downloading. I have, however, had terrible experiences with pixeldrain and mixdrop.

Nah, Pixeldrain is the goat. Gofiles is one of the best, and mediafire seems also to be back in its best shape.

Mega sucks ass. You have that limit and this download-in-browser-first thing is awkward.

 

[TurtleGiroflex]

Anyway, there's always torrents.

While torrent may look nice, i wouldn't download through it without an VPN. Specially in countries where ISPs usually annoy you because of torrents.
And then again, if you have a good VPN MEGA download limit won't pose a problem to start with.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

The site always provides a bunch of alternative links for a reason.

 

[Enot1964]

While torrent may look nice, i wouldn't download through it without an VPN. Specially in countries where ISPs usually annoy you because of torrents.
And then again, if you have a good VPN MEGA download limit won't pose a problem to start with.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my country they try to block torrent trackers (unsuccessfully), but there are no legislative measures against citizens downloading content via torrents. Besides, the saying "the strictness of laws is compensated for by the non-binding nature of their enforcement" was not born in our country for nothing

 

[Sphere42]

Since we're apparently throwing around personal anecdotes: MEGA is perfectly serviceable. Not "DA BESTEST111" but it's pretty fast, has decent folder view options, can play video directly in the browser, has a decent daily cap which can be partially bypassed via megatools, and links don't seem to die all that quickly. The "download into browser first" thing is different sure but not actually bad.

Pixeldrain's ability to preview archive contents makes it better for ZIP files specifically. Gofile, mixdrop and workupload seem to be more lenient with their quotas but I got "file contains malware" warnings from mixdrop too. Google drive is good for image galleries as it's pretty responsive and generates previews e.g. for PSD files, but gets annoying with its virus scans and "zip the zip" nonsense.

Uploadhaven is slow, filen and dropbox have atrocious UI/usability but should be fine for singular game archives. Most of the others seem to be dead by the time I get to them, but obviously I can't tell whether they're actually worse or just less well maintained by the uploaders.

Most of the time the best option is to grab one file from each of the decent sites if you're downloading in bulk, for single downloads google drive's compression antics and the 5GB limit on at least MEGA and Pixeldrain are the main issue.

 

[Dessolos]

When a game is within the download limit I always use it, it's alot faster for me. Other than that I go for gofile then whatever else.

 

[SubjunctiveGames]

I've never had any serious issues with Mega, but my current favorite is definitely Pixeldrain.

 

[Mookys]

I prefer to use alternate hosts and a download accelerator.