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A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can’t play any games due to Always-on DRM.
You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn’t buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.
So depressing.
Its so going to happen
already does. I had a Samsung bluray player from over a decade ago that refused to play any movies made a year after it was manufactured unless I connected it to update. it went in my kids room and plays DVDs from the local library now.
It is the one thing that grinds my gears about Steam sometimes.
This first happened to me in 2014? It’s super frustrating.
It also happens with Steam. I remember forgetting to go offline before taking my gaming laptop to the woods or in airplanes, and suddenly not being able to play.
do you remember those old pcmcia card cellphone adapters so you could work wherever you had cellphone coverage, but subscriptions were so expensive you needed a good excuse to make your boss pay for one because [dude who invented money. I dunno. Prometheus?] fuck dude, those cost a lot in the early 2000s.
i felt this way when A: drives went away. if it doesn’t have to be a sony brand BD player and could just be one that meets certain specs… fuck prices are going up such that 350 will be “cheap” soon.
I’m kinda old and have had a couple of Nintendos but never anything PS or Xbox. I’ve been a PC gamer since PC games existed.
I’ve been balls in my ass kinda guy since before balls had been to be as in ass could can does, which is why I’m a Mormon Occultist now, so I understand exactly as you do say it
Smells like toast in here too…
Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord n savior, Jesus Christ? I know how he did his sorcery, being a dog and sorcerer myself.
A classic
Indeed but I still hate when people refer to things from the 2010s as classic/retro/vintage.
I hate when people refer to things from before 1750s as classic.
The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.
No, budget PCs and indies - NOT piracy.
If you base your gaming life around piracy, no one is paying for the industry. No golden parachutes for Take Two execs, but also no return on indie development - every game would be by a first time studio mortgaging their house and closing immediately after.
Do not condition people around never paying for media. You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying, you doom yourself to pages of games full of ad-driven AI slop.
If your indie game is too expensive, i will pirate it too, if it worth it i will bought, if not i won’t, very simple.
Damn, i end up buying RDR2 as i finished him pirated and fell than the game deserve it.
Some indie games, where i live are still very expensive and sometimes rhe devs already have a shitton of money like Team Cherry.
How about if a game is too expensive, you just don’t play it?
That rule forms some interesting results; sometimes, people realize they really DO want to play that game, and can stomach the high price more than they can missing out. People are not always honest with themselves about their judgment of a price. They always want it for less if possible, but may confess that a higher price is better than no product.
If you’ve ever seen the “walk away -> Wait!” style of price negotiation, that’s this - it can happen with both consumers and publishers. Also called driving a hard bargain, or haggling. Factorio dev famously called people out on their habitual approaches to sales, and I think it’s hard to say he didn’t earn his success.
Plus, on devs having lots of money: They’re often putting that money to future development. Some studios I love like Supergiant and Game Bakers had some semi-flops as they tried new ideas. If they didn’t build savings from success stories, they’d have to close down after that. Besides, they deserve some results for their risk taking. And don’t you dare say indie development doesn’t involve risk.
If a too expensive game is available for free as pirated media, why wait ? You can at least try before buy or decide if worth it your time
- Lots of indies DO have demos. That’s what Steam Next Fest is. Many of them are generous with playtime.
- Steam has a refund policy. In the event you find you made a mistake with a purchase, you can tell support it wasn’t fun.
- People are streaming a lot of games, even indies now. Those can give you a closer idea of even the midgame.
Lastly, I’m not going to use the S word that rhymes with Peel, because a dozen pirates will dogpile on how it’s not technically the correct terminology, but you’re still breaking a societal expectation - that people interested in another person’s work will pay for access to that work. Some museums will provide a donation box, but others have you pay for entry - Because artists gotta eat, and that’s the rule. No one cares you’re not lifting the paintings out of the hall. You have interest and curiosity, so pay some dues to the people who piqued that.
Jesus, i not stealing candy from babies, do you remember Dave the diver, the game who almost won the indie GOTY prize beside been backed by a milionare fund corporation, ain’t saying i gonna pirated a “artistic” five dollars game made by one guy while living in some basement, althrought nothing would stop me.
I more than glad to pay for games i appreciated, like “El Paso, elsewhere”, Mina The Hollower, Pigface, Dandara, Huntdown, etc, but you have to understand, i live in a place where some of those more popular “indie” games cost me as much as double AA or some AAA games on sale, they still very expense for a lot of people.
That’s the exactly dumbass discussion who the Silksong caused on the piracy community, it was farly expensive for a lot of people and team cherry have swimming in money from the first game and the people who bought Silksong on launch, but the fanboys are trying to convince people than would be wrong to pirate a game who already have paid itself on launch (it broked the Valve server ffs).
People have this illusion than pirates are there to fight big corpo or some moral bullshit, people are in piracy to get free stuff, some people would like to, sometimes, take his money to help the devs, because a lot of people using pirate products are fucking broke or live in places where such expenses would make no sense due the prices of some games
just thought I should chime in here, as another first world country gamer. Go ahead and pirate the fuck outta games, they were made to be played. Anyone genuinely mad about pirating is someone who deluded themselves into believing they’re currently a down-on-their-luck future billionaire.
Games are better when more people enjoy them, and the only way to do that is by lowering the barrier to entry. It’s the same with manga, anime and most of the other “booms” that have occurred since the start of the 2000’s. They were all started by piracy, or in the case of AI, legitimatized theft. Only real difference is who’s doing the stealing, the ‘poors’ or the currently billion dollar companies.
You are morally obligated to pirate whatever the fuck you want until you can purchase it, if you want, or until the product comes to you (i.e., it’s priced reasonably for your region, and the service/product brought to you is of acceptable quality).
I’ll keep taking my free samples and paying for what I deem worth my money
I agree with the indies. If you look at the last crash a golden age followed.
it’s 2043
523 days into the war
Found your PS6
It boots
Games won’t play, requires internet
Internet has been down since the dawn of the war
Want to shoot yourself in the head
But you lost your Yubikey to unlock the safetyI’ll still be playing modded consoles with free games.
Can’t wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Steam has been fine with this for years.
Didn’t Silksong crash those servers less than a year ago from everyone downloading it? You think GTA 6 will be LESS popular?
If people buy GTA 6 without a disk, particularly after Sony just deleted people’s purchased movies without a refund, then they deserve whatever fate awaits them.
After YEARS of architecture.
Let’s not pretend they did it right in the first 10 years.
Solution: Don’t buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.
Okay, but how will I get the Most Cutting Of Cutting Edge Graphis with Ray Dicking And Light Emulsifying and Video To Smell Technology?!
Everything that isn’t on 64k resolution video is basically unplayable.
“They each cost 80$” is the only unrealistic part of this. I reckon it’ll be higher.
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
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It’s 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it’s now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Gamers can simulate operating a “grocery store”, something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what’s on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal. Possession of physical computer storage media that is not permanently connected to the internet will be grounds for arrest and reeducation.
such physical media will be made illegal
not quite the same, but in Hungary you had* to pay an extra tax on writeable CDs because it was assumed that you’re buying them for piracy 🫠 iirc the tax went to support the music and film industry
(* maybe still have to, but I haven’t lived there in more than a decade)
US kind of had that in the '90s. CDRs designated as music disc’s cost extra because we were all criminal scum pirating non-stop. However, if it was a data disc, there was no surcharge.
There was no difference between the two except the packaging.
As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what’s on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal.
I’m old enough to remember when it was impossible to get your hands on a CD-Burner, because the industry didn’t want people to use discs with 650MB capacity to store and transfer files between systems. I suppose we could see some kind of return to non-writeable media, but I’m not holding my breath. Data transfer is the entire backbone of the modern internet. If anything, flash drives will simply go out of fashion because we’ll have even more data-dense and rapid transfer alternatives in another five or ten years.
$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.
Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.
It’s been 90$ for a long time in Canada and being bumped to 120$ ish, its painful
Nah, owning a PlayStation
It says you bought it, doesn’t say you own it.
The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.
5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.
The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.
You get 3hrs? I can’t even get mine to charge at all.
Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, “iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha” - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
I don’t understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.
sheeple, put simply
buying a console is trading literally EVERY aspect of your experience for convenience.
I swear people in the future will trade their first born in just for convenience.
It likely would have died out if it was JUST online as a sole benefit. People often forget Xbox Live pushed the online experience forward before we had things like Discord. Now, to stay competitive they offer free games and other benefits.
people never change
People do change. But they have to start from somewhere.
You can convince a 20 year old on a budget not to buy a PS6 by showing them a PC rig at 1/4 the cost with a better catalog. But you’re not going to convince an 8 year old who wants parents to buy it because a guy in a TMNT costume did a TikTok dance telling him to buy it. That’s just 8 year olds for you.
player that bought fifa every year for the full price
There are folks with more disposable income than sense. And $80/year to get the players you’re familiar with on the roster, when you’ve got a decent job and a couple of roommates to play with, simply isn’t a big deal. At the same time, you get older and you have less free time and suddenly you’re not playing soccer video games anymore because you don’t recognize the players. And then maybe you end up going back to the old FIFA titles because you’re nostalgic for your youth.
But this idea that people just mechanically buy all new FIFA titles forever really neglects how people get old and stop playing the games at all. And the industry has to bring in new younger people with billions of dollars in saturation advertisement if they want to keep churning out titles.
It’s 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
Check your caps.
how does one get started replacing capacitors? what are good practice devices
Check forums if the hardware you have is prone to issues. Some manufacturer years are worse then others because of the Capacitor Plague, but any capacitor can dry out, leak out or otherwise wear out. If a cap leaks, it can damage the traces on the board. Best practice is to replace before that happens. There are kits online for diy repairs and shops that will do it if you can’t solder.
Intersting reading, thanks
Luckily the ones that tend to go are the large electrolytic capacitors (the cylindrical ones that typically stand perpendicular to and proud of the board) which are also the easiest to desolder. They also have their ratings printed right on the side to make it nice and easy to source replacements. Just note the polarity denoted by the stripe on the side before you take the old one off, because your board may or may not be marked underneath with which way around it goes!
I cut my teeth doing it on Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 motherboards when I was a kid, using a $10 Radio Shack single temperature soldering iron and quite possibly the world’s most awful technique, but I got away with it nearly 100% of the time.
(not the person you asked) tbh, we have an awesome local video game store that does repairs. I’d ask them. They replaced the laser on my partner’s PS2 when it stopped reading discs.
Or, check ifixit.com and see if there’s a walkthrough for your device.
The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.
You’re also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.
Everyone is old enough to schedule one if you make up a convincing enough reason. I just had my 3rd one this year!
I tried! Turns out I get to wait until I’m 45. Having a great-aunt and great-grandma with colon cancer isn’t enough. The great aunt died in her 30s of colon cancer, iirc.
