Technology

Suddenly the Steam box isn't that bad anymore...

If I'm not gonna own what I buy, then I trust steam and an infinitely larger catalogue of games over Sony and their entire history of proprietary connectors and bullshit.

Obviously building you own and running steam os is better and cheaper, but for normies who want a console experience and don't want to assemble their own PC, manage cables, or know about bandwidth settings for your ram in the bios, the steam machine is starting to look appealing

From what im seeing people are looking at steam/linux as an alternative not windows. With the RAM shortage, windows is probably the worst solution out of the available options.

Either way it sucks to get rid of the only way to get used games anymore. Im hoping this kicks back more and we see more partnerships with companies like limited run games and others who do physical releases. https://megacatstudios.com/products/zpf for example.

People... Windows and Xbox is not an improvement (it can be even worse). Build a Linux Gaming PC, that's true freedom.

Anything but Linux…

I don’t see why they don’t at least try it, it’s free.

I mean it's a no brainer. if you are forced digital anyway, PC has both steam and gamepass (for pc or ultimate if you also have an xbox). Why lock yourself into an ecosystem that provides no value, when you can go into an ecosystem that not only provides you with most of the Xbox catalog if you want to pay a sub, but also all of the other PC storefronts.

The only reason people ever went console was for the low price, exclusives, the convienence and the physical market. The exclusives have sucked, the price is no longer low, and the physical market has been nuked by an atom bomb.

The question Sony should really be asking here is "why do people buy into our market" because they are actively destroying it.

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Hey! If you're used to not being able to play some games, use Linux. It is much more efficient which you can use to avoid upgrades, more powerful cards, etc.

Just get a Linux distro and throw some PC parts together and you'll be better off with that then W11 or shitbox.

DDR3 should still be fairly ok for a starter PC.

Plenty of good old games run very well on Linux and older hardware.

It is now the moment for Valve to announce that they have come up with a way to let you sell/exchange games between users on Steam. They do this and they eat the whole market.

The disc at this stage is somewhat symbolic, its the line that sand against the anti consumer practices being pushed by the platforms.

We have trusted them and during that they have:

• They have sleptwalked users into accepting digital over physical.
• They have infiltrated many areas of game production and monopolized
• They have normalised subscriptions for many areas of gameplay....

And now they are getting pretty bold of what they want.

• You will have to verify your identity
• The products you 'bought' can be taken away from you at the platforms discretion
• You will have to be online to play the products you purchased...and you will need to pay for that service.
• They can charge what they want for the games and there is no competition to weaken prices
• You will pay more for your device with less features

They are testing the tolerance with this. This is not about the physical disc. Its about saying enough!

Save about $100 and your sanity by using Linux over Windows

And what does it help to turn to microslop? They will just bury you in subscriptions and data steal?

Abandon Xbox for Windows 11?

So leaving one toxic boyfriend just to get with another?

I think it’s like most things, 1% are loud and the rest will accept it

Like jumping from a trash bin to another trash bin.

Oh they are so close yet so far away

Yeah sure because Win11 and Xbox haven‘t been a complete dumpster fire…

X for doubt.