That’s true, but those days are long behind us. Now, games are released in an unfinished state and require, at the very least, a day-one patch for any hope of a non-buggy experience. It’s sad affairs everywhere in all aspects of the industry.
I remember the physical media PC game days. At the end, the games had horrible copy protection/DRM. I remember not having an internet connection for a while and I went to buy a game that I could play. All the games on the shelf had a notice on the box that said “internet connection required”. Single player games needed to be activated, and if you ran out of activations you either had to contact the company to reset it or you were shit outta luck. I far prefer the combination of Steam and GoG.
Publishers already tried this (EA, Ubisoft, etc) and it didn’t really work. They came back to Steam.
The only issue with that is their prices go up if their costs go up. Kind of like how grocery stores claim that theft causes prices to go up. It is their money, though it does feel bad paying them.
“in a world where search doesn’t exist, one man, one labrinth of folders he must click through.”
I’m the complete opposite. I don’t want to feel like the game is letting me win. I want to earn it, at least a little.
They would still pretend. And, though it would solve a lot of problems, it would remove purpose for so many people.
I work with a guy who suddenly developed this in the middle of a call. I had to help him back to the office, stopping so he could puke a couple times. He was gone for a while and I don’t think he ever got rid of it.
My wife and I used to play everquest back in the day and I’ve been trying to get her to try New World with me but we’re just too busy nowadays.
Those are pretty crazy. Written by Chris Barnes, apparently.
What does Cannibal Corpse say? Other than stuff like I cum blood.
22-23 is where I’m comfortable.
Unless it’s broken where the hands are completely missing.
Denuvo… Sigh
I tried it recently but the issue is that it plays like an MMO. If it had FPS or sword fighting (lightsaber) combat, it would be awesome. The gameplay is super dated.
Ah, I skipped 8 and 8.1 but I didn’t really hear much complaining at the time.
For the time being, Proton is good enough for me. I think devs/publishers refusing to enable their chosen anticheat to work with Proton is what is holding things back now for tech people. For other people, there’s even bigger challenges, and I doubt they even read up on these “tech nightmares” so they’re good with just continuing on with Windows.