I fear wishful thinking, gaming consumers (demand) don’t wield such power over supply.
The format doesn’t work as well but lemmy try …
Perhaps …
This is a better version imo. These companies are going to kill consumerism of the PC market soon enough. It will take some time, like 20 years or so I imagine given the current landscape and old inventory, but these are the starting steps.
where is his ding dong
On an AI company farm forced to draw lewd anime girls along with his fellow shlongians.
yeah, dafuq is this censorship!
There are way too many people lining up to fellate Gabe for this to be accurate.
People might get pissed off when DRM is buggy enough for them to notice, but most gamers don’t realise that they don’t actually own a single game in their Steam library.
Most games on Steam are DRM-free and you can start them without a launcher (meaning Steam).
So you can buy a game, download it, copy game files, refund, keep playing.
Most? Try 4%.
OK, I stand corrected.
It seems that I’m just a fan of the DRM-free games.
I saw another source that claimed ~25% of the top-rated games are DRM-free, so it seems to be quite lopsided. And even moreso if you happen to like indie games I imagine
I happen to like Open source games the most, with some exceptions :D but OpenTTD is one of my most favourite games. I wish games were made open-source like decade after release.
Can you give some more examples? I’m interested
I completely forgot about it, which is a damn shame, but Beyond All Reason, open-source game inspired by Total Annihilation, is a massive RTS, with PvP, PvE, 32k unit limit, absolute madness of a game. Haven’t played it as much, but I will come back to it.
Game can do more than 150 players in a single game. It’s usually 16 players max, but I can send you vids of some massive games if you would like.
Yeah… allow me to doubt those gamers…
Are those gamers the same that whine about FC26 being a copy-paste of FC25 and then proceed to buy it full price?
Or the same whinning about the last COD being ai slop in a review after 358 hours of gameplay?
Or those saying “I won’t buy another pokemon game ever after the last shit they released” just to then buy the new shit they make?
A few gamers will boycot, but most of them are going to keep buying everything from their favourite series non-stop because, apparently, they can’t live without it.
Yea most gamers are just sheep. They will linstall anything the most convenient way possible and not even use the 2hr refund window on steam even if they don’t like the game
My head canon: Most gamers are children: their parents who have no interest in their kids’ hobbies buy the “biggest game” to show their affection.
The average age of people who play video games is 36-41. Most are not children.
Yea I think the average is at least over 18 either way which is no longer a child. Hell at 16 you’re no child either, you’re a teen, and despite them not being too bright they at least can’t be fooled to think holding a controller in from of a screen = playing
The issue is people are dumb, not age…
Whenever I see people playing anything with Vanguard anti-cheat I cringe my soul out.
Same with Denuvo games.
Just because something works on our computers doesn’t mean we should install it. We have to stand up for those in poorer countries that can’t afford good PC’s by refusing to run unoptimized garble… But alas that will never happen, will it…
In regards to DRM and other privacy concerns we have to stand up for our digital rights to freedom. Our PC’s should be ours but that is less and less normalized today… Our phones are no longer ours already…
