• Bratosch@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well, you still need something to play it on. And since GPUs and RAM costs about a child and a half these days, I’d say it’s quite expensive.

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      4 days ago

      Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!

      I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played! They would run fine on a 10 year old PC though.

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          1 day ago

          The AAA game industry wants to leverage FOMO to keep you engaged, keep you buying the newest game, forgetting about your backlog.

          If they had their way, older games would no longer be playable, just to force people to keep buying new games.

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        4 days ago

        Short term it’s cheaper, but to an enthusiast the lag, and the lack of ownership really rankles.

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            2 days ago

            That’s cool, where do you buy your games?

            Even streaming from my desktop to TV downstairs using ethernet is noticeable to me! It’s alright for some games but not great for fast stuff.

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        3 days ago

        Gross!

        AI nonsense makes owning your own computer too expensive and your solution is to reward the same assholes by paying a subscription to use their hardware with bonus lag? Have you no shame?

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          2 days ago

          It’s better than what I could afford.

          It’s pretty astounding actually. I have zero lag and the graphic fidelity is exceptional.

          I couldn’t afford a PC system even before the price rises. So this is the bestway to experience high quality gaming for the majority of people.