This might not work for you, but at one point I had three HDDs running all the time in my small apartment. What I did to keep my sanity was set up a schedule in qBittorrent so that it completely stopped at night and used most of my bandwidth the rest of the day. I also recommend setting up permanent seeding with Hardlinks and auto-deletion when it reaches a certain ratio (this may differ based on how popular your torrents are). In my case, it was 10:1.

Based on the TRaSH Guides, x264 is better for 1080p content and x265 is only worth it for 2160p and above. But I don’t know how they would compare in the case of 720p x264 vs 1080p x265. I think I would prefer 720p x264 if it had a higher bit rate.

The “it’s not fair we pay for these games for them to then be pirated” says it all, it’s not about the company becoming bankrupt because of piracy, it’s because they don’t want to feel bad once they have been scammed with a half made game that others have gotten for free. Because a half made game should be worthless