They will exploit you right up until the point where you commit crime. So steal and pirate your way to liberation.
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I recently pulled out my old PSP from way back when. If I don't have any options to buy anything to own, guess there's less incentive to buy anything new. Give me options pls
And there's a talk going around about single-player campaigns won't come to PC, they'll be PlayStation only.
single-player campaigns won’t come to PC
glances at the Steam catalog
glances at my unplayed Steam library
laughs
To answer OP's question, I think the place "we went wrong" was allowing ourselves to be driven by the industry hype cycle rather than enjoying the genuine quality games in the orgy of content available on every platform.
There are more high quality games released in any given five year span than you could play in the next ten. If 90% of AAA publishers released nothing but slop for the next 20 years, you would never miss a day of gaming if you just stuck to the existing stock of bangers.
You don't even need a particularly good computer to play the classics - your Starcrafts and emulated Super Marios and Forza racing sims. Nevermind the privately hosted MMOs that can eat up thousands of hours of playtime. Go check out FF14 or Guild Wars 2. I've got a friend who has been doing WoW for 20 years.
If new games are slop, who cares? We are at the tale end of a Golden Age of game development. You're sitting on a treasure trove. Just don't buy the next Call of Duty game and you'll be fine.
Well, that's not how gaming works. Those 5.7 million games installed in your laptop mean nothing. Gaming is a passion for a specific game and its further additions. For example, if I love a game called "Test Game", and then they released "Test Game 2", then "Test Game 3", I am gonna play all of them. And when "Test Game 4" comes out and I find out that I cannot play it because SONY wanted to be an @$$, all those other games installed in my computer are just useless .exe files because SONY broke my chain of story progressions and experience with a game. We don't play games to increase the count of games installed in our computer, we play games for the love of gaming and certain games feel like home for that love. Just installing any random .exe file without a meaning to increase the count of games installed and laughing at a steam library makes no sense for a gamer. Digital hording and gaming are different things.
Where it all went wrong was the industrial revolution
Where did it all go wrong?
Enclosure after the Black Death.
I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.
If you buy them off Steam you don't actually own the game. You own a license to play the game, and that license is non-transferable and can be revoked. Doesn't matter if it's on your hard drive.
How long is that going to work though? Today's slop is not going to unslop in 5 years, and it seems like every big name game publisher is exclusively doing slop now. Especially the optimization issue won't go away, and it looks like the times where you could just wait for a generation or two of more powerful hardware are over, too - hardware might be getting more powerful, but the performance per dollar isn't improving because the performance is only improving incrementally and I don't see hardware prices going down to what was normal pre-Covid.
Still plenty of indie devs making good games. Really, you could just work through all the good games made up to this point and be fine for the rest of your life.
Otoh, if what you really care about is the social connection you get from playing games and talking about them with other people, you can just take up gardening or community service or pole dancing to get that.
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Cross out "of PC gaming" and you got it.
At least we'll always have the classics. Download, play, and seed emulated games folks.
The future of PC gaming is the community support of vintage games that you loved.
The future of consoles is amatuer AI taxidermy remakes of your childhood memories. A distorted uncanny-valley resemblence of a game you once held dear, stuffed to the brim with synthetic fluff and hung on a generic skeleton twisted and bent to roughly resemble a once vibrant and living thing.
The console wars are over. Xbox is being spun down.
Xbox is going to be a subscription game console service, like stadia was.
Microsoft is going to use the "free" compute cycles when their AI slopcenters aren't at full utilization to run Xbox games.
SO RIGHt
Also with microtransactions
I wish I had more than one upvote for this.
Where did it all go wrong?
When we stopped publicly executing politicians and millionaires (there were no billionaires yet at the time).
Elon Musk is on the path to become a trillionaire.
Seeing shit get worse and worse every year has thr goblinest mask of all callin' like:
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OOP is wrong about one thing: They're not happy.
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