I used to be a playstation, couch gamer. I pretty much quit gaming when the ps4 came out. Things have only gotten worse since. On the bright side, I did manage to get a bachelor degree instead.
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you can still play chrono trigger
You could almost say it's timeless
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Well done. I finished my degree once I quit drinking
That is fantastic! Congrats on both!
I'm a gamer from back in the days when a "games console" was a ZX Spectrum or an Amiga, not an open standard like the PC mainly because back then nothing was standard, but far more open than modern consoles.
Then came the PC and for a time it was the dominant platform for games (basically the good old days of Shareware and a few years after).
Then consoles were reinvented, with the modern console business structure and tech stack which most present day gamers are acquainted with. This time around consoles were a locked down tech and the business was a walled garden model.
At that point I was so used to PCs and to piracy as an alternative to source PC games (or even just a way to unlock purchased games by cracking their DRM), that I never really jumped into modern consoles as it was too locked down. Also by then I was already a Tech professional and aware of the risks of jumping into a tech stack wholly controlled by a 3rd party.
So, yeah, here we are now with the closed down walled garden tech stack were there wasn't even a proper piracy culture to disincentivize abusing locked-in customers having enshittified to extreme levels.
This shit was entirely expectable already back then.
I hope that the whole modern day business model for game consoles dies a horrible death, though people being people I expect that a decade afterwards they will get swindled again en masse by a reinvention of this console model.
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It's their walled garden, which they control and were they get to do whatever the fuck they want.
Never, ever jump into a tech stack which is a walled garden, because sooner or later you're almost certainly going to get shafted by those who control it. This applies just as much as a tech consumer as it does as a tech professional.
While I agree, the average person doesn't consider things like this (even though they should), and we should avoid getting close to victim blaming.
The first part it is indeed true.
For the second part it really depends: one thing is a technologically naive person who gets themselves into such a situation because of not knowing better, a whole different thing is somebody who should know better but still go in because of convenience and hoping for the best.
In my eyes the former are victims, but not the latter, so I'll definitely blame the latter for jumping in with some awareness of the risks thinking "I will probably be alright" - if you jumped in the pool were you knew there was a shark and got bitten that's on you.
I also definitely blame fanboys, because their actions help pull in more of the first kind - when one is too ignorant about the broader implications of a choice, they shouldn't be actively be trying to get other people to make that choice.
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The amount of companies that I've seen dive face-first into walled gardens because "they wouldn't screw us over, we're paying customers!" is mindblowing.
2 years later, and those same CHUDs have 
and are yelling at me because prices have gone through the roof, and there's no way to get out of the stack without a complete redesign.
How do the idiots that make these decisions keep failing upwards?
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There are a few threads in that sub complaining about the lack of physical discs. There’s even a megathread. My assumption is that this one got removed for posting outside the megathread or something similar considering that other similar threads are still alive and kicking.
“Designated free speech zone”
“Where are the reporters?”
“They’re in the free press zone.”
Was curious about how corporate compromised Reddit has become.
Oh, it's been a shitshow since before the IPO.
So, it's like Nintendo, but the console is twice as expensive? Yeah, no.
No, the games are also worse.
Nintendo also still sells physical games for now.
only some. some or most new switch 2 cartridges are actually keys on the cartridge that just unlock an online download. no game files in sight. you can still resell the cartridge, but for how long is dubious, given that eventually the online store will be shuttered.
Grow a fucking pair and make a sacrifice for the world you want to see. Ppl are so fucking weak. Adjust your life to remove the liability of corporate greed, whenever possible.
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I would have never thought I would not regret gaming so much when I was younger, with the current state of gaming.
TBF almost all the games worth playing before 2016 probably run fine on at least one of: your phone or your linux PC.
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Shocked Pikachu?
You know, it reminds me a lot of when Google got rid of "do no evil" in their mission statement.
It made plain something that was true from the start?
Corpo probably owns the sub
No used market means PIRACY will run free.
remember when Sony criticised Xbox for not allowing secondhand games? Yeah.... that aged like a fine vintage milk.
You don't have to pay them anything.
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