I just didn’t think it would happen this soon.

I hate to be the one to tell you this but…

That was 13 years ago. That announcement is almost high school aged.

Bob should have stuck to farming.

I believe thatbis part ofnthe Stop Killing Games platform.

Dear lord. The ill informed comments in that Bluesky thread hurt my soul.

EDIT: To clarify, the “golden handcuffs” tied to the Sony deal ($1.2B of the total $3.6B) already vested. The executives responsible for the downfall were paid and gone some time ago.

Anyone here planning on getting one?

I might get a 2tb. If I don’t game on it, I might swap the Linux version and use it for work. We have standardized in fully decked out System76 Meerkats with Proxmox VE serving jump hosts to manage different clients, so I can use it for that, or I can leverage the GPU and use it for datadump and log analysis. The point is, that it wouldn’t be money wasted. Ideally, I’d like to play games on it though.

EDIT: Looking at the Gamer’s Nexus review they state upfront that performance is limited, so I honestly don’t see why I should get this over a Meerkat.

EDIT 2: Nevermind. The Meerkat has almost doubled in price and is Intel only now. So the Steam Machine is back on the menu.

I’d say GOG --> Steam. Physical media isn’t real anymore. Most PS5 games download an entirely new set of binaries at initial launch and refuse to run unless they have been updated. So the disc is mostly useless.

Username checks out.

The message sent by consumers needs to be for all “always online” games to fail miserably. If the game has an online requirement, do not buy it.

So stupid.

So far, Jason is batting 1000 with his YouTube channel.

If you are going to cooy and paste, copy and paste the entire thing.

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

Examples:

Academic publishing

Between 2016 and 2022 the turn over and profit margins of academic publishers increased partly due to article processing charges from open access. This has been accompanied by predatory publishers who prioritize profit over scholarly integrity. This Academic enshittification results in a scholarly system that is “overwhelmed by quantity, distorted by profit motives, and is stripped of its purpose of advancing knowledge.”

Amazon

In Doctorow’s original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer began by attracting users with goods sold below cost and (with an Amazon Prime subscription) free shipping. Once its user base was solidified, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for “cat beds” were half advertisements.

Dating apps

The market for dating apps has been cited as an example of enshittification due to the conflict between the dating apps’ ostensible goal of matchmaking, and their operators’ desire to convert users to the paid version of the app and retain them as paying users indefinitely by keeping them single, creating a perverse incentive that leads performance to decline over time as efforts at monetization begin to dominate.

Sorry, I meant Blizzard. I messed up the joke.

But he worked at Bethesda Blizzard.

File this under “being an absolute moron does not disqualify you from being CEO of a successful company” and “dumbest moves in corporate history”.

I completely agree, and I guess I should have qualified that I meant AAA and multiplayer games. All my other games I play directly on either my Steam Deck or my old 1080ti box.

If a PC game is not on GeForce Now, I’m not buying it. My old gaming PC is on a 1080ti and 16gb of RAM. No way I am upgrading at these prices.

What a shocking turn of events…but not really.

I have been playing Unreal Tournament (1999) since 2000. It is impossible for me to tally up those hours.

Revanced to discover new music, then selfhost what you liked.