There are far fewer games to choose and they are lower quality.

Lmao what?

How about they keep their worthless government mits out of gaming?

Average inopportune mindset

It'd be funny if the patch just made the game open your browser to the amd website

Bub, I'm not the one throwing a fit like a toddler because online games can be competitive

For one, things like cloud storage are obviously not particularly viable to have the customer host themselves, on premise.

Secondly, some things can be extremely intensive to process, and thus performed on specialized, high end hardware rather than over hours on whatever shit phone the customer is using

I'd personally like to see changes like not having the ranking system torpedo your evaluation because of a single underperforming team-mate.

At least in terms of league, that isn't the case. Yeah, everyone complains about losing due to bad teams, but like, yeah? In a match of 10 people, any given person inherently has a minority of the impact on any given match. But statistically, that balances out over time. Better players will have greater positive impacts, and thus win more game and climb. There's an argument to be made that the old promotion system leaned towards bad games having an outsized impact, but that was kinda the point. They prevented lucky streaks from impacting rank as much and favored consistency. And trust me, I've mained adc since season 5. I know the impact of shitty teams first hand.

The mmr system also more or less completely prevents a bad game or two from tanking your rank. As long as your mmr is higher than your rank, you can climb even with like 40% wins since a win will grant more than a loss takes away.

I generally have little need for paid software since I don't (or more accurately, can't) do any work at home, so it figures I wasn't aware of what's out there lol. The closest thing I use is cracked office. Because yeah, that payment type sounds pretty good, so long as releases are priced reasonably.

I figure a big difficulty is deciding on "major releases" vs rolling incremental development. If they're going to sell major releases, they actually need to be able to consistently make pretty sizable upgrades, and not just "streamlined a couple menus, big fixes" type updates.

monopolistic behavior

It's such a monopoly that anyone is completely free to launch a competitor at any time and succeed on their own merits!

So basically, it's just "blowing previous gens out of the water" on flair at the moment.

Barring major changes in how things are done like rasterization to raytracing, the top end of the GPU market has always been about flair, as far as gaming goes, no?

but I'm still surprised that Google lawyers couldn't demonstrate to a jury that they're not preventing other companies from using their stores in Android and that the security measures are acceptable and an industry standard.

All the best lawyers in the world can't get a jury full of idiots to stop being stupid.

He doesn't bring it up, but I want to give a shout out to cemu. I'd say it's the best way to experience Wii u games, with significant performance over the console itself, and being able to just use a mouse for gamepad inputs. It also has (at least for a bit longer) the ability to connect to official multi-player servers, as well as replacements via pretendo.