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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 21:55

Continuing with the house example.... When you rent, you NEVER STOP PAYING. You could live there for 30 years, and then you retire, can't make the payments anymore, well, you are out on the street. Those 30 years count for nothing You could pay Netflix for 30 years...and the price is up to $400 a …

Re: What would you do different?

Posted on Yesterday, 18:58

Surely you joke about the floppy disk thing? Even by the 90s they were becoming woefully inadequate. I was an early adopter of CD-R, and I have always felt like that was very much worth the money I have the opposite opinion about CDRs and DVDRs. Mine got corrupted after a few years and I lost what …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:21

Ah sweet summer child. Wait until you get to The Library level. Maybe after you've finished it, google "halo the library worst level ever" and find some people commiserating. I can say personally when I came to Halo about 10 years after everyone else, I too got through about half the game really …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 06:46

I agree with the Netflix comparison. Given that most games of companies offering a subscription model would required online DRM anyway, you don't own anything there either. And to be honest, I usually play a game once. The times where I played a game multiple times have passed, as the overall …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 06:04

I hate subscriptions for individual games or software (looking at you Adobe), but I actually really like Xbox Game Pass. It's far cheaper than buying games and I rarely replay any newer games, so I'm not really missing out by not owning them. For anything retro, I'd rather own it though. Game Pass …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on Yesterday, 03:07

What is it with Value Villages and Sims games? :sweat_smile: The local Value Village I go to mostly tends to mix up games with CDs and DVDs. I always scan those sections just in case. The Value Villages around me all have the Sims and a million EA NHL games spanning over a decade. Sports games make …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-30, 22:53

I hate to say it but I gave up on games a LONG time ago - when it got to where you could no longer just but a disk in a store and install it (without an internet connection or some kind of account) I HATE this whole subscription movement I hate subscriptions for individual games or software ( …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-29, 01:28

google stadia and amazon luna come to mind Well Stadia was a flop and I haven't heard much of a buzz surrounding Luna. Personally, I can't say that I'm that excited about cloud gaming. In Canada, fast internet still costs a premium and neither GeForce NOW nor Xbox Cloud Gaming have worked …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-28, 23:53

when the game requires some code to run online though, what then? i don't just mean networking to allow multiplayer i mean some content too, something which the game genuinely needs to function games seem to be slowly heading towards a point where some, then almost all, the code execution will be …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 20:14

I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever on and off during the last week. The game isn't very long, but I kept putting it on hold because it didn't really draw me in during the first dozen levels or so. Today, I finally managed to finish it, so I guess I'll post some of my impressions. The good: I …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 06:13

I recently started an unorthodox backup strategy that I hope will be a good balance between mitigating data loss and staying on a budget. I currently have terabytes of data that I want backed up, but I haven't found a backup solution within my budget. Cloud storage is expensive, especially after …

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