People will buy it. And then they will wonder why content quality declines and more and more micro transactions appear in a game they bought and pay subscription for.

The capitalism will always look for the easy route to even more money, and monkey brains with need for status symbols will follow.

Welcome to capitalism. Big gaming companies do not care about games anymore, they care about how to maximise profits. Their games are manipulative and developed together with psychologists solely to get your hard earned money at any opportunity. They got so good at it, that they are able to release pieces of software which are looking like games but actually are milking machines and no games at all.

You just have to take a step back and you will be able to easily differentiate between products of corporate greed and games.

Games once were supposed to be entertaining and even art. And there are still some, mostly indies.

I think this was my last console, I’ll return to PC.

So Ente, like duck?

Edit: just checked it out (yes it’s duck), what’s the appeal over a self hosted nextcloud?

Good

The characters aren’t real

I think he means Mobas or Tower Defense games

Ocarina of Time is the mother of modern 3D gaming with Z-targeting.

Dota 2 wasn’t that popular.

It’s gonna disappoint

Yes, and I bet it will be a soulless husk of the original.

Capitalism and politics

I thought this was about hunting as a pastime

It’s a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can’t find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the information in means you cannot predict.

Until ten years ago we used TeamSpeak for voice chat, IRC and forum for text. You can host all of them yourself. Today we have the fediverse and matrix. The problem is that kids get caught by the likes of tiktok and discord (because they are easily accessible with no other requirements than a phone or pc) and they can’t get away from them.

Discord is the antithesis to free web. Stop using it. I won’t join any community using discord.

Oh yeah, and fuck Nintendo

Taking console wars to the next level

They had soul

Imo they shouldn’t do Witcher 4, you should stop when it’s best. They won’t be able to meet the expectations and only disappoint when people compare it to W3.

No

Edit: sorry I just found where I can view my playtime on PlayStation, it was 413 hours without endwalker