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I just left windows for Linux. With all the new development it’s pretty great.
“Cyberpunk is cheaper on PS5 than PC due to secondary market”
Literally free on PC.
The JP-only PS5 model is 350USD new, the non-digital international one is 650. I kinda wonder if Sony is fine with losing the people who aren’t basically captive if it means they can milk the ones who are going to buy no matter what due to price insensitivity.
~10% of consumers represent 50% of consumer spending, and as this increases, business models that fleece the wealthy and completely exclude the poor become more competitive while spending money developing a product most people want and can afford less, as “most people” can afford much less than the top end.
I started using headcrab updater to install slssteam and ensure steam is held to the latest compatible version, and move installed repacks to the steamapps/common/game location for more seamless usage. I have this working on my bazzite steam deck (haven’t personally tested steamos but it should work) and my cachy desktop and even VR works without extra stuff this way since some recent steamvr updates made pc to standalone headset not suck in linux.
Even if you aren’t a pirate pc poweruser Slssteam also lets you bypass family library usage restrictions and everyone can play one copy of a game at the same time, including online gameplay. I did a few rounds of slay the spire 2 where my brother and I each played 2 characters to test, and a friend did a solo 4 player this way as well.
I really don’t get this outrage thing. Outrage because all eggs become expensive? Yes, because they are close to essential, or at least very important for a lot of people’s diet, and they all get more expensive. Outrage for some game platform shenanigans? Don’t give them your fucking money.
People’s priorities are all fucked up. Even on this site.
But you can still get physical eggs. You won’t be able to get physical games.
The store can’t just say “hey the eggs in your fridge are no longer yours”.
That’s the difference.
Its not even the price, it’s just the principle. If you don’t hold something, you can’t control it. You could have a license expire or come under dispute on a game, and suddenly you can’t play it anymore because some random back county judge issued a ruling. A bit extreme of an example, but what’s often more the case, you buy something on a store, and then the console company cuts the store (Nintendo with DS & 3DS for example).
I’m sure the emulation and piracy/preservation community will see us through all of this, but the less popular stuffs going to get lost to time. It’s always better if you have physical media somewhere with the files you need.
If you look, the same user has been flooding this space with game disc agitprop for at least the last day. This space is only tangentially related to gaming so why here and why so much? I can’t decide if they’re just passionate or working towards a goal.
I mean I have both, but you better bring your wallet if you want to PC game. Especially as of late.
Except you don’t have to pay a $110/year subscription on PC. That adds up fast. Nor do you need the highest end hardware.
And the price of the PS6 is expected to be >$1000
I don’t pay a subscription on PS5 either. Not everyone online games.
I just happened to be at a computer store the other day, 64gb of ddr5 ram was going to run you about $1200-1600 Canadian dollars. That’s just the ram, and if you are going to be building a PC right now, thats what you are going to want going forward. Even if a PS6 is $1k, it’s still the better buy if this stuff continues, subscriptions and all. Even a lower end gaming PC is going to likely (well)exceed $2k at these prices.
I mean my computer is a few years old now, it was pretty decent spec at the time (5800x3d/128gb Ram DDR4/5070ti). The issue is, when the hottest new game releases on PC, it’s often so poorly optimized that for the next couple of months it chugs, on higher end stuff let alone bottom tier stuff. It’s something that isn’t talked about as much, but PC releases (especially AAA) are more often than not released with poor builds that are fraught with issues that you just don’t seem to get quite as much at the console level.
Not to mention that PC games are all digital now too. It’s all the same issues, problems and behaviours. I don’t like it either, but my point is gaming isn’t perfect in PC land either.
Not to mention that PC games are all digital now too. It’s all the same issues, problems and behaviours. I don’t like it either, but my point is gaming isn’t perfect in PC land either.
Except PC is an open market place. Consoles are not. On consoles, used games often served as the competition to prevent costs from going insane.
64gb of ddr5 ram was going to run you about $1200-1600 Canadian dollars. That’s just the ram, and if you are going to be building a PC right now, thats what you are going to want going forward
You do not need 64gb of RAM for gaming. You don’t even need 32gb, especially if you aren’t using an unoptimized ram-sucking OS like W11. 90% of your argument hinges on these overinflated numbers
You are going to need 64gb to game comfortably in the future, not very many people build a gaming PC for it to be pretty obsolete 2 years later, and being forced to have to start turning down all your settings. These AAA games get wilder and wilder and more demanding. They are often released in absolutely abysmal states too and it often takes a bit of time to get that cleared up.
Even DDR4 ram is ridiculous right now, 32gb ddr4 plus a tb nvme will probably run you pretty close to a grand. That’s not even a case, motherboard, chip, power supply, a GPU (which may be close to another grand)…
I mean if you want to play Indie games, then sure yeah any old rutabega PC will do it. But if you want it to last 5 or 6 years and be able to play AAA games at respectable levels, then you probably should build it with some muscle.
You want to try and run something like GTA 6 when it comes out on a 1080 with 8gb of ram, I mean you do you.
You’re just doubling down with your bullshit claims? You do you.
Ruh-roh. You’re gonna hate steam.
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