Arghhh
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 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?
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
You know, it reminds me a lot of when Google got rid of “do no evil” in their mission statement.
It made plain something that was true from the start?
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.
The amount of companies that I’ve seen dive face-first into walled gardens because “they wouldn’t screw us over, we’re paying customers!” is mindblowing.
2 years later, and those same CHUDs have
and are yelling at me because prices have gone through the roof, and there’s no way to get out of the stack without a complete redesign.How do the idiots that make these decisions keep failing upwards?
In most countries Management is not Meritocratic - people whose job is Organizing, Tactical Planning and even Strategical Planning are in practice selected on Networking (the social kind, not the tech kind), Social and Image Management skills as well as Knowing The Right People (which often is Coming From Well Off Families And Attending The Right Posh Schools) instead of concrete metrics on the skills they’re supposed to have and apply on the job.
Since performance measuring in that domain is often pretty nebulous (especially in IT), it’s a lot easier to get away with being mediocre at the job than it is in more strictly measurable domains where results are clearly PASS/FAIL.
So you get tons of Shoot From The Hip, Make It Up As You Go and generally insufficient problem space analysis, none of which conducing to reliable, sustained and robust outcomes. Since generally the management pyramid is people like that all the way up, the higher ups just see the inevitable problems that emerge later as “just the way things are” because they themselves did the exact same thing, and often even promote such people because they’re like them:
The
- Some manager does insufficient upfront analysis and preparation, and then, when things needlessly blow up because of that, in a “superhuman effort” “saves the day” by avoiding catastrophe, hence is seen as a hero and gets promoted.
is very common exactly because upper level management themselves work in the same way and are thus unable to spot the causal relationship between not doing something they themselves don’t do and the later crisis when a “unknown unknown” that should’ve been a “know unknown” for which there was already some defensive planning turns into a near catastrophe for which in their eyes “nobody could have seen coming” is a valid justification.
Mind you, this actually varies quiet a bit from country to country as the overall management culture is not the same - in my own professional experience it’s not at all the same thing in Northern Europe and Scandinavia as it is in Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon countries and in turn between those and Southern Europe and Latin America.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
So this is more about reddit mods than anything else. Yeah, reddit mods, for the most part, are complete dicks. Reddit sucks.
Reddit men, what did you expect?
No used market means PIRACY will run free.
yarr harr harr, what be this then?
The used market is called ‘emulators’ for some odd reason.
I’m sure everyone can afford that with the world collapsing. Joke’s om them.
People buy this shit on installments. Consumer culture has turned the average person into a product chugging zombie.
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.
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 can still play chrono trigger
You could almost say it’s timeless
☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)No way, it’s FULL of time.
Well done. I finished my degree once I quit drinking
That is fantastic! Congrats on both!
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.
Nintendo also still sells physical games for now.
Some, yeah, but for how long? The issue facing Nintendo is that storage and RAM prices are way up. Looking at a game like Cyberpunk 2077, you can probably get most of it on a 64GB card, especially if they reduced the textures some. But 64GB cards aren’t cheap, so they have to eat that cost if they want to price it competitively. And let’s not forget, using that example, they had to do extra work with that game to port it to ARM64. I’m sure us Mac users aren’t making up the costs. I mean, I already own the game on Steam, so I damn sure wasn’t going to pay full price to buy it on the Mac App Store, not when Steam works on macOS and the native ARM64 build is right there. (The Mac App Store is pretty shit anyway.) But even then, I have an M2 MacBook Air and an M2 Pro Mac mini, and it runs like shit on both computers. I mean it runs okay, but there’s no traffic, pedestrian or car. So that’s where they’re cutting it. I get the full experience on my Xbox, so I’m not playing it on the Mac.
Same thing on Switch. The game goes on sale pretty cheap often enough, but then to play it on Switch 2, you have to pay nearly full price. Not a bad deal if you never owned it before, but I gotta wonder how a Switch 2 benches against M2/M2 Pro. This site doesn’t fill me with a lot of confidence for the Switch 2: https://gadgetversus.com/graphics-card/nintendo-switch-2-gpu-vs-apple-m2-pro-gpu-19-core/
I’m not sure how much is actually known about the Switch 2, since I doubt it’ll just run GeekBench. But it sounds like, from the way that site has it, the M2 Pro in my Mac mini is 2-4 times better. So, seeing how the game runs on the M2 Pro… I gotta wonder just how much they cut from the Switch 2 version to make it look as good as it does… and I wanna know why base/Pro Macs can’t just run that version. I suspect a lot of games are gimped for the Switch 2. That may include Fallout 4, but Fallout 4 runs nearly perfectly on my M2 base MacBook Air. There’s a couple things you have to fiddle with, like disabling gore (the flying eyeballs thing). But the game runs great. So the Switch 2 version will probably be fine.
only some. some or most new switch 2 cartridges are actually keys on the cartridge that just unlock an online download. no game files in sight. you can still resell the cartridge, but for how long is dubious, given that eventually the online store will be shuttered.
I would have never thought I would not regret gaming so much when I was younger, with the current state of gaming.
TBF almost all the games worth playing before 2016 probably run fine on at least one of: your phone or your linux PC.
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.
Shocked Pikachu?
