Justince
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Post by Justince on Mar 22, 2019 12:57:56 GMT -5
What's the good word gents? Are you a fan of Google? Are you a fan of owning property? How about buying hardware?
Stadia is the wave of the future! Instant Gratification should be the tagline. There's many interesting features, sure to blind you to all of the drawbacks of such a design. Limited only by your internet, Stadia stream games and content to whatever screen you have, at full frame rate, resolution and fidelity. Buying hardware, storage and delivery are all things of the past. Of course so is the concept of owning your own games. Hope that voice actor in your favorite game is keeping his nose clean, Google could decide 3 years down the line his politics aren't chic anymore and what do you know, your game is removed from your library. Streaming is the ultimate endgame of corporate greed. All property centralized and under control of a single authority. Don't be fooled by the flashy lights and loud noises.
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Post by thundercunt on Mar 22, 2019 13:32:31 GMT -5
I thought the concept of "owning" games wad dead since the hegemony of Steam
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 3:11:51 GMT -5
It's times like this I'm thankful to be almost totally disconnected from the modern gaming market. The last game I remember looking forward to was Doom 4, I'm also pretty stoked to see Doom Eternal, but that's it. Oh I also like the Switch and some of the games for it, but I'm not crazy about them or anything.
On paper, the idea of someone with good internet but shit hardware having the option of streaming rather than relying on their shitty hardware sounds awesome but basically every concern Justince raises seems totally valid as well. Especially with the current trendy belief that "you're only as good as the worst thing you ever did" and "everyone who ever said anything bad should be censored and fired", but I'm hoping that's just a trend that will die out soon due to how obviously unsustainable and absurd the entire concept is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 16:24:05 GMT -5
This is why I continue to support GOG.com. Their not perfect, but the fact that you can download the games you buy onto a hard drive, SSD, or USB stick is pretty cool.
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Post by dn on Mar 26, 2019 8:12:15 GMT -5
If I don't get a physical copy of the data then I don't buy it.
Seems fundamental, but the number of fuckboi steam enthusiasts willing to bend on this principle astounds me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 15:36:27 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to think. Maybe this is a very dangerous idea, or maybe it's just one of these "progress" things. I guess people raised similar concerns when society was moving from growing your own food to buying it from vendors. Or from keeping money in wallets to storing it in banks. Like yeah, you become dependent on somebody and therefore less free, but life gets easier in a way. Perhaps it's all right.
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Post by deathevokation on Apr 12, 2019 0:54:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to think. Maybe this is a very dangerous idea, or maybe it's just one of these "progress" things. I guess people raised similar concerns when society was moving from growing your own food to buying it from vendors. Or from keeping money in wallets to storing it in banks. Like yeah, you become dependent on somebody and therefore less free, but life gets easier in a way. Perhaps it's all right. the vendors weren't communist furries who constantly participate in petty outrage culture on twitter who bring their politics into the company and one day lock Jordan Peterson out of his google account.. the vendors weren't a faceless corporate entity that becomes anti consumer and one day starts blacklisting customers to virtue signal and says no fuck you starve to death once it becomes a monopoly. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 1:46:52 GMT -5
Remember Google Glass?
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