Jeff GeerlingI'm glad I got to enjoy gaming in the era before you needed a $7,000 rig to redraw frames and generate slop frames to hit 62 fps in a AAA game.
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Thomas@doragasu @geerlingguy I left a long time ago with included root kits, micro transactions and thousands of launchers.
I stick to mostly indie games on GOG these days.
@tripplehelix @geerlingguy I play on Linux (so no rootkits, they just won't work here) and I don't buy games with Denuvo. Also I don't play games with aggressive monetization. On the bad side, I use Steam, so I get Steam DRM, but well, I think that is not very invasive, so it's something I can tolerate.
But even without all that, current AAA gaming status is terrible, with 0 optimization on so many games, the AI and GPU craze making hardware ultra expensive and now this...
@doragasu @geerlingguy Just wait till you lose connection to the internet for a few weeks. You'll start to hate steam. Probably the most annoying part of it is the need for an internet connection.
@tripplehelix @geerlingguy Been a Steam user for 15 years now, and **never** had that problem. Don't get me wrong, I am not defending Steam DRM by any means, no DRM is good. But for me it is a "reasonable enough" DRM I can tolerate.
@doragasu @geerlingguy My sunk cost fallacy is in full swing, and I still hate the platform. I don't own a single game on there. Valve can remove my account and I'd loose all my games just because a bot can flag my account.
I've had an account for 17 years and "own" over a thousand games.