I'll never do cloud gaming/computing.

If a cloud server becomes the only way to play the newest releases, I'm never playing the newest releases again. That's fine. There are more games between 1980 and 2025 than I have years of life available to play.

If you can't build a desktop and must rent an Amazon computing instance, I'm not doing computing anymore. That's fine, people lived for thousands of years without computers, I don't need computers to eat.

If cloud gaming is all that's available, read books, go for walks, hang out with friends instead. Do what we did before the internet. Do not let them win, stop using it.

I said the same for Amazon (personally ordered 1 item from Amazon, received maybe 5 items from Amazon as gifts, I otherwise do not use them but I am 1 insignificant point well outside the graph) and expect the same results

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Remember, things got this shitty because most people were fine with Big Tech gradually making things shittier. I look back and realize I've been waiting for the One Enormous Dealbreaker for over a decade, but consumers keep moving the red line.

For everyone being all fatalistic and the whole 'there is nothing you can do' approach. Vote with your wallet. No money for them means no power for them.

We are the customer, not their bitch. If they don't provide value, they receive none in return. They go broke and someone else will provide the service we all want.

Steam is cool and all but I think I'm going to go with GOG a lot more going forward.

And I'll never stop buying discs for consoles

If I cant own it, then I cant steal it.

Yar har.

I'm never using a cloud to play games, that's just stupid.

I'd rather play only board games and TRRPGs for the rest of my days.

My biggest regret is going with 32 of instead of 64GB of DDR5, when I built a new Ryzen 7000 PC in 2022 to replace my aging 4th gen i5.

But what I don't regret is ignoring everyone telling me not to do all sorts of unspeakable things to snag a $1600 4090 at launch, especially given that it was never sold that cheaply ever again. It's a beast of a card and I'll easily get a decade of gaming out of it. Saw 4090s going for over $3K used on eBay lately, so yeah I'm happy with making what was a dumb decision at the time.

https://batocera.org/

Can run on a tiny computer, all your games and saved on local disk, compatible with retro achievements org, save state hotkeys, use basically any USB controller, etc. I use it more than any modern console I've bought in years.

The only reason you should ever cloud gaming is building your own cloud, e.g., with Moonlight, Steam Link.

There's more old, retro and indie games out there than you could ever finish. If the situation will get worse people will start sharing install files on offline media like decades ago with movies. Don't worry, it's going to be great.

Imagine paying some rando to rent their computer. You can totally trust them, right? They're not in the Epstein files, right?

If there is no ownership then there is no stealing/pirating by sailing the high seas.

Meanwhile me playing on linux

IMO the only thing the cloud is useful for in this context is maintaining and syncing saves. Other than that I want my games running locally, thank you.

If you're only option is to give in to big corpos, then don't do it. Go replay a classic game, relive a world you haven't touched in years. Mass effect, dragon age, halo, skyrim, think of all the old games completely playable on a 360 now that you probably haven't touched in years. Go back to them instead of giving in.

The death of Stadia was so enjoyable for me

That’s not it.

It’s how they’ll:

Charge more for the service whenever they feel like it.

You have to subscribe to each gaming service separately if you want access to their games. Just like Netflix or Prime Video, except there’s no way to sail the high seas for these games as they’ll all be cloud based.

Unbundle your access – you now get unlimited hours for one game or pay more for all games with top tier, pay for every DLC unless you pay for top tier, etc.

Pay for skins, upgrades, mods, your “own” server, the ability to record yourself playing for your social media, voice chat…

Pay for top tier lobbies so you load in faster.

Pay for the best maps.

And of course the service will enshittify. Dropped and slow connections, shittier game quality, glitches and exploits go unpatched, etc.

The ability to exploit and extort gamers is almost endless once they take away our PCs and consoles.

You will own nothing and you will be happy. 😀

thats why you hack your old consoles and you play games forever free!

Good thing I have a decent Xbox 360 collection so I guess Don Mattrick was right all along.

I'll stop playing before that happens

Sorry, to busy going to my local game shop and buying Xbox 360 games. So many games to play

Good. It should feel bad.

RG35xx Pro, Usenet for ROMS