Or maybe fewer of us will game, of course. If you kill quality you kill your customer base.
Motherfucker, I don’t buy your games at all.
They can kiss my hairy ass, not on the left, not on the right, but right in the middle. I’ll play the 40 plus years of games I’ve already amassed over and over instead. Hell I’ll even make myself ai slop choose your own adventure books before I spend one cent on streaming only anything.
lmao, good fucking luck realizing this without massive expenditures in infrastructure. In the US, internet is basically shit everywhere i’ve ever lived, I’ve never been able to even stream from my own PC to my phone without the experience being excruciating and unplayable on anything that wasn’t turn based.
Yeah. Take-Two CEO is a dumbass for the logistical reasons alone. Good-enough-to-stream-games internet is more rare than household VR headsets. There is not enough market to support this industry at the scale required to make it financially viable.
Not in America at least, which is a problem given that America is the single biggest market in the world.
That might no longer be the case after another two-and-a-half years of Trump.
they don’t care… they want people to pay for shit service to then upgrade to the less shit service to have its terms change without your consent or prior knowledge to the more expensive service that requires some other shit or specific hardware… which will also be shit.
You will own nothing and like it!
if that’s what they want. I’ll stop consuming quite easily.
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Upgrade to less shit service? Wake me up in 2034 when that’s an option.
so you don’t want to pay just an extra 1.99 for only 4 ads instead of 8? also for another 0.99 you get the chance to earn upto 70% off your next subscription to the monthly pre-order bidding
That’s mainly because upload speed is capped much lower than download speed. That’s reversed if you’re streaming from a service though. Still a shit idea either way, hell the streaming services of several years went under in what a year or two.
If a game requires internet to play I don’t pay!
Some might. I will be playing an instrument or reading instead. I’m out.
Yeah this is their goal. Subscription everything. Also they don’t want gpus in your hands and we will see them more regulated than assault weapons - or some sort of gentleman’s agreement where they are generally unavailable to the public. Writing is on the wall because if you can run quality ai locally the powers that be suddenly lose a trillion or two overnight.
Dude I can create my own games with pencils and paper, they won’t lock me in to paying a subscription to play games.
For sure. The day I can’t own my video card is the day I’m done gaming. I had a lot of good years and a great run. I’m fully uninterested in supporting any industry that removes your ability to own your own hardware or software and even less interested in supporting one that is doing it to appease the ai overlords.
By hook or by crook I will be running everything locally in three years. I’ll hodge podge some workable gpu to give me a PC and LLM.
No the hell I fucking won’t.
At this point, I’m convinced that if you think this stuff, you are not a real gamer and are fundamentally hostile to the gaming community, and/or a complete imbecile.
Heard that before lol
Yeah, but now consoles are gonna cost $1,000 and lower-mid-rang PCs even more.
Streaming games sucks, but it’ll be the only option for people who can spend that kind of cash on the hardware.
Lmao no we won’t.
He’s right, I stream via Moonlight from my PC to my living room
Lol is he okay?
I mean. The first time round with strata and stuff yeah they said stuff like that but now?
Also it won’t be true whenever.
we wont but he wishes they want streaming because then they can control access they want to control the hardware and software you will have no option but to keep paying whatever price they ask otherwise you will lose everything
I got a 3DS and DSi not too long ago to play games on, so I’m more likely to go backwards and get old tech to play timeless classics than stream new games.
