Technology

I've never paid a cent to stream anything. There's all kinds of streaming everything that wants me to pay money to stream their shit. Guess what? No.

You can do it now. You'll be able to do it in the future too. Movies, games, makes no difference. There are several lifetimes worth of games you can play without capitulating to the stupid late-stage capitalist bullshit that's going on in this moment.

And it's not always easy. I recently purchased a copy of Max Payne 3, a 14 year old game, because it was on sale for $7. After downloading, I discovered that it required me to register an account with Rockstar to play the single player campaign. I uninstalled it and got it refunded. I intend to pirate it now, out of spite.

Fuck these corporations. Don't contribute to them. There's plenty of other shit to do and there always will be.

Lol for comparison geforce now is $8.33/month(for yearly plan)for 100 hours a month, plus 15 unused hours roll forward.

Microsoft has reinvented the arcade, except this time you buy the game first and then feed the machine quarters to play it. Next up: a premium tier that lets you pause without the meter running. At this rate, Xbox’s most profitable game will be watching customers try to escape the billing screen.

Wow, I almost reflexively downvoted this post just because I hate it so much

Computers could have been so cool, instead they're all just becoming shitty slot machines.

This is why I am amassing a library of games and media that can all be consumed locally. The day that becomes the default is the day I stop paying for any of that. I don’t need “the new thing” or “you must watch this”. I have plenty of stuff to keep me entertained till the end of time.

The bitch is going to be components but I’m making sure I can work with things across multiple generations and have spares just in case.

That is just the intro price. Soon with will be $5 an hour and go up from there if you want a "premium" experience.

Yeah.... no.

There's no way in Hell.

I will play Archon on my Commodore 64, fuck this noise.

If I bought the game, why would I be streaming it anyway?

They can want it as much as they like, they can fuck off.

You can thank GeForce NOW switching to an hourly limit model that ended up being successful because people are stupid.

Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it's too expensive, and instead you'll just have to pay hourly to use someone else's compute.

Linux sever at home + sunshine for stream. MS can eat a dick.

They can fuck right off...

It's funny. Because pretty soon individual "Game Designers" will for the first time be able to create highly complex games using generative AI in very little time. Any game. Even games with a scole like GTA 6 could be generated. And as long as the game describes and edits enough, they will also be an individual creation. Triple AAA video games with a side of slop will become incredibly cheap to make. Much will be total garbage, but we'll see some really cool new ideas that would never have been made before.

This enshittification we're seeing now will only drive this process faster. Even games piracy is going to die lol.

You see a game but don't like some aspect of it? Download someone else's game design document for it and tweak it a bit and generate your own version of that game.

How about I never """buy""" a game again from you Microsoft?

Jesus. I'm like all in on indie studios and old games. I don't need this bullshit in my life. It's already too much if a headache to comprehend what's possibly worth it or not when you pay by the month or the hour to try and figure out budgets and so on. Cancel it all, play the old shit and pirate the rest.

If I saw what emulation and decomp/recomps are doing I would grab at any penny I saw.

And sunlight/moonlight will only cost you your own electricity to run your computer as you stream.

F that MB BS crap.

How about no?

Get absolutely fucked.

What a deal! Especially since the next gen Helix thingy is probably going to cost around US$1800, XBox is definitely the future of gaming. All hail Asha Sharma, the savior of XBox! (/s for those at the back who can't hear me clearly.)