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remember when Sony criticised Xbox for not allowing secondhand games? Yeah… that aged like a fine vintage milk.
Corpo probably owns the sub
Grow a fucking pair and make a sacrifice for the world you want to see. Ppl are so fucking weak. Adjust your life to remove the liability of corporate greed, whenever possible.
I did that when the Oblivion horse armor dropped and I felt strength and community in my little rural highschool of like-minded gamers that aligned on the “world we want to see”.
fast forward 20 years. our sacrifice doesn’t matter, companies run like big ocean trawlers and some retards will swim into the net and make it worth their while 😞
Thinking you have to change the whole world for a sacrifice to be worthwhile is one way to see it.
I see your point but it’s pointless when most people are sheeple. The 1% of power users never make a difference in the world of today.
Those power users are the ones who build the alternative. That path already exists, you simply refuse to walk it. The more who do, the better it gets.
But big business is very, very skilled at exploiting the parts of us that change behavior. Who am I, with a few words, to convince you to change, regardless of how much better would be if you did, when I’m up against the relentless propaganda expertise that convinces you, everyday, to keep accepting the path that is worse in the long run?
Those power users are the ones who build the alternative.
And then what? Nobody uses it besides other power users. You get no money, no support, besidrs that of your little group of people with a brain.
That path already exists, you simply refuse to walk it.
Do I? Weird, I guess informing literally everyone I know is meaningless then.
Why are you talking about me and what I do and refuse to do like you know me?
I agree with you, but the way you put it, really puts me off.
It is easier than you think bur your mindset is a big roadblock
Voting with your wallet works, just look at the billionaire epstein class doing it for proof
It’s their walled garden, which they control and were they get to do whatever the fuck they want.
Never, ever jump into a tech stack which is a walled garden, because sooner or later you’re almost certainly going to get shafted by those who control it. This applies just as much as a tech consumer as it does as a tech professional.
While I agree, the average person doesn’t consider things like this (even though they should), and we should avoid getting close to victim blaming.
The first part it is indeed true.
For the second part it really depends: one thing is a technologically naive person who gets themselves into such a situation because of not knowing better, a whole different thing is somebody who should know better but still go in because of convenience and hoping for the best.
In my eyes the former are victims, but not the latter, so I’ll definitely blame the latter for jumping in with some awareness of the risks thinking “I will probably be alright” - if you jumped in the pool were you knew there was a shark and got bitten that’s on you.
I also definitely blame fanboys, because their actions help pull in more of the first kind - when one is too ignorant about the broader implications of a choice, they shouldn’t be actively be trying to get other people to make that choice.
We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.
It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.
I agree but it’s not even a point of education (for the most part) imo. It’s that a large amount of people are easily manipulated and are not properly equipped to fight it off.
Societal peer pressure carries a lot of this stuff very far. If two friends but the latest game, a third will likely do so as well; and the sample size is rarely limited to three.
General public is tired, mfs working minimum wage and want some joy out of their paycheck, they want to play the lastest sports game with their friends, doesn’t appeal to me but ik plenty of power users who still buy those games and play them too actually, honestly its not even expensive if you work and actually play those games all year every year?
They charge what they want because the general public still likes it and cares enough to support it every year, they still get more than enough value out of it, blame the lack of comeptitors and ppl being hung up on needing licensing
Should they? I mean if they don’t consider it, is honestly because they don’t care. And if they are happy paying full price on the PSStore let them.
I used to be a playstation, couch gamer. I pretty much quit gaming when the ps4 came out. Things have only gotten worse since. On the bright side, I did manage to get a bachelor degree instead.
you can still play chrono trigger
You could almost say it’s timeless
☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)No way, it’s FULL of time.
So full, that it actually has multiple times.
Well done. I finished my degree once I quit drinking
That is fantastic! Congrats on both!
I’m still a couch and controller gamer primarily, I just use a PC to do it lol. Honestly, with Steam, it’s really easy to just change Steam Big Picture mode as the default shell for Windows, so even if you don’t want to install SteamOS, you can still have the console experience of just turning the machine on and booting right into your games menu.
I’m a gamer from back in the days when a “games console” was a ZX Spectrum or an Amiga, not an open standard like the PC mainly because back then nothing was standard, but far more open than modern consoles.
Then came the PC and for a time it was the dominant platform for games (basically the good old days of Shareware and a few years after).
Then consoles were reinvented, with the modern console business structure and tech stack which most present day gamers are acquainted with. This time around consoles were a locked down tech and the business was a walled garden model.
At that point I was so used to PCs and to piracy as an alternative to source PC games (or even just a way to unlock purchased games by cracking their DRM), that I never really jumped into modern consoles as it was too locked down. Also by then I was already a Tech professional and aware of the risks of jumping into a tech stack wholly controlled by a 3rd party.
So, yeah, here we are now with the closed down walled garden tech stack were there wasn’t even a proper piracy culture to disincentivize abusing locked-in customers having enshittified to extreme levels.
This shit was entirely expectable already back then.
I hope that the whole modern day business model for game consoles dies a horrible death, though people being people I expect that a decade afterwards they will get swindled again en masse by a reinvention of this console model.
I’ve always had computers to play games on, but consoles have also always been my primary gaming hardware. The additional cost of PC hardware, as well as having to constantly tinker and upgrade parts to be able to run the latest games, was the main reason. But now that consoles are doing away with the used market and also no longer have significantly cheaper hardware, Paying more up front for PC is the only thing that makes sense.
Well, the upside of PCs is that you can keep on upgrading just parts of it, whilst console upgrading is generally just buy a new one, something that has become even more so around the late 00s when the upgrade cycle slowed down quite a lot, even for gaming PCs.
I think (but am not sure) that as long as you didn’t aim for top of the range parts and instead used the ones just below (generally much cheaper for only a little bit less performance) all in all it was cheaper to just keep upgrading one’s PC than keeping on replacing one’s console with a new one as they came out.
Mind you, I’ve jumped out of the “keep up with the latest titles” threadmill over a decade ago since, with the notable exception of Indie titles, I don’t actually find them as entertaining (they’re generally very “guided” linear experiences whilst I like lots of freedom and high complexity) plus I discovered that I derive far more enjoyment from great gameplay than I do from great graphics: the latter can indeed be amazing and impressive for the first couple of hours, but it’s the former that gets me back to a game again and again and again, even years later.
PCs and Patient Gaming is way cheaper than consoles, though I guess that by now there’s also a lot of Patient Gaming in consoles since people keep on using the older one rather than buying the new on.
Further, upgrading one’s PC or even just knowing what kind of things are better to upgrade at any one point and how to chose the right parts for upgradeability (such as enthusiast motherboards instead of just cheap ones and the kind of CPU socket that was recent enough that was likely to keep getting new CPUs for a while) requires quite a lot of technical expertise and is beyond most people. even gamers.
“Paying more up front for PC is the only thing that makes sense” for me, specifically. For others it would vary. I was thinking the other day of what I would recommend to a person who isn’t tech-savvy, has no gaming hardware, is on a budget, and wants to get into gaming on a TV. Oddly, the Switch 2 seems like the best cost to performance ratio right now.
You don’t have to pay them anything.
You know, it reminds me a lot of when Google got rid of “do no evil” in their mission statement.
There are a few threads in that sub complaining about the lack of physical discs. There’s even a megathread. My assumption is that this one got removed for posting outside the megathread or something similar considering that other similar threads are still alive and kicking.
“Designated free speech zone”
“Where are the reporters?”
“They’re in the free press zone.”
Was curious about how corporate compromised Reddit has become.
Oh, it’s been a shitshow since before the IPO.
So, it’s like Nintendo, but the console is twice as expensive? Yeah, no.
No, the games are also worse.
I would have never thought I would not regret gaming so much when I was younger, with the current state of gaming.
I mean, those games from the time you decided not to play games are extremely easy to access these days, with the exception of dead multiplayer titles. There is something to be said about being young and having much more of an ability to experience wonder and enjoyment than later though.
No used market means PIRACY will run free.
The used market is called ‘emulators’ for some odd reason.
Shocked Pikachu?
I’m sure everyone can afford that with the world collapsing. Joke’s om them.
Arghhh
