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Big Phoenix said:

The fundamental issue is what we enjoy and the system that created what we enjoyed makes little sense in 2022 and beyond. From a financial/business standpoint making actual content isnt worth while to companies when they can churn out barebones games for nothing and charge $10-20 a cosmetic for said barebones game then rake in literal billions.

We had a nice thing, but that nice thing is all but dead.

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I dont even mind the cosmetics thing if there is an actual game there to play. But im not talking about cosmetics here, as in the point of mobile games (but this is also slowly infiltrating consoles and PC). They literally are designed to stop you in your tracks from progressing unless you gamble RL$$ on a better hero, or a better weapon and so on. Some even stop you from progressing using some currency you have to buy in order to play longer.

And this is literally like 90% of the mobile games market right now.

Big Phoenix said:

We already pay more now for less content and freedom of use of said content than ever before.

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Got any stats to back that up? Or are you just letting nostalgia and rose colored glasses talk out of your ass for you?

Kirun said:

Got any stats to back that up? Or are you just letting nostalgia and rose colored glasses talk out of your ass for you?

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Have you not seen how modern gaming especially big titles are now essentially Saas? Or how little control you have in general. Remember when SC2 launched and Blizzard said anything you make in the custom map maker is their property not yours? Look at Rockstar, make another GTA? Nah fuck that continue to milk GTA Online for every penny. Then throw in ever increasing amounts of censorship within said games.

Mist said:

That said, in a future internet protocol, say a hypothetical "metaverse of things" protocol, there's no reason that the "NFT" could not just be a cryptographically signed and verifiable copy of the actual data itself.

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What incentive do globohomo companies to buy into such a system? And further more you still face the problem of who hosts the digital data thats linked to the blockchain?

Gaming has become only more closed and sealed off over the past 20 years. Modding akin to Counter Stike/Dota/Desert Combat is no longer a thing. Private servers, no longer a thing.

mkopec said:

I dont even mind the cosmetics thing if there is an actual game there to play. But im not talking about cosmetics here, as in the point of mobile games (but this is also slowly infiltrating consoles and PC). They literally are designed to stop you in your tracks from progressing unless you gamble RL$$ on a better hero, or a better weapon and so on. Some even stop you from progressing using some currency you have to buy in order to play longer.

And this is literally like 90% of the mobile games market right now.

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I dont even consider "mobile gaming" to be gaming. Its all loot box/gotcha simulators.

Big Phoenix said:

Have you not seen how modern gaming especially big titles are now essentially Saas? Or how little control you have in general. Remember when SC2 launched and Blizzard said anything you make in the custom map maker is their property not yours? Look at Rockstar, make another GTA? Nah fuck that continue to milk GTA Online for every penny.

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So when I asked for stats boring out your claims, you could've just said no, instead of coming up with a version of, "BACK IN MY DAY!!!".

Mist said:

There's some real bullshit DRM out there, but that's about the only thing I can think of that matches his description.

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Rest assured, if DRM had been readily "available" back in 2000 or whenever these boomers think the "golden age" of PC gaming was, it would've 1000% been used.

Kirun said:

So when I asked for stats boring out your claims, you could've just said no, instead of coming up with a version of, "BACK IN MY DAY!!!".

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If you dont see how gaming is fundamentally different in 2022 v 2002 then you wherent gaming 20 years ago.

Ambiturner said:

You can't be all about conservative small government then whine about wanting more regulation when it comes to your precious video games.

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We arent libertarians.

Though ill say the current problems cant really be solved with regulation. So long as people are happy to be retarded whales nothing will change.

Big Phoenix said:

If you dont see how gaming is fundamentally different in 2022 v 2002 then you wherent gaming 20 years ago.

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You mean, as the world became more and more "tied" to the internet, more and more games were forced to have "online" components? And that it costs money for dealing with thousands or millions of players logging into your game? And that game companies would have the AUDACITY to want to recoup these extra costs, despite most PC games costing the same as they did in 2002?! How fucking weird!

Gaming seemed AMAZING in 2002, because most of us were 14-20ish. Just about any game would catch our attention. Especially considering the lack of titles available back then vs. now. PC gaming in general, let alone INTERNET gaming was still very much something only "nerds" did, it was a pretty small market, dude. I used to be 387 pounds, I can promise you I did more gaming and poopsocking then you did back then. While you were in the military fighting hajis, I was stuffing my fat, disgusting gullet with Mt. Dew.

Gaming is objectively better now. From graphics, to systems, to variety, availability, content delivery, etc. etc. You're just doing the typical, old boomer bullshit of, "EVERYTHING NEW SUCKS! Everything old was the greatest ever!!!". I remember when my Dad thought Warcraft 3 wasn't as cool as his "Atari" or "Zelda" too.

So lets look at the main genres Im familiar with....

MMORPG? Name one that didnt shit the bed in the past 10-15 yrs. Even WoW sucks now and everyone is playing WOW classics...

Shooters? Same shit except they now ship unfinished, not all features implemented, buggy as shit and take months to fix. See new COD and BF

RPG? All bunch of bullshit filled with woke shit except the games coming from japan.

CRPG? Yeah there are a few but few and far between.

ARPG? We have like one or two if you count early release that are worth anything....

I mean what are all these great games youre playing right now? What good is it to have all this new and shiny, better graphics, more online, and more of it blah blah when over half of it is shit? Hell some of the better games in the past like 5-10 yrs were indie titles made in the basement with 1-10 people and some with shit graphics but great gameplay.