well that's just one example

stuff like diablo immortal just seems like one last wringing of the nearly bloodless cashcow's corpse of it's last few remaining drops of blood though

that's a good example actually

the diablo mobile game was a reskin of a mobile/casual rpg developed for/in china

they just wanted to trot it out as it was something already to go

it's lazy

but i can see why they did it

the bigger problem is the useless hacks in PR/community management

they call gamers entitled and what not

but they're one of the last groups that are invested in their hobby/past time

what can be entitled with wanting the best value for your purchase?

exactly

your already buying a game that isn't even made a lot now (pre order) and that changes to add ever more ways to nickle and dime you (patches) as it's sold back to you in slices (DLC)

pretty much

over a decade back they were practically throwing a free section of the game at you hoping you'd buy it

now it's pre orders, on disc DLC, day one DLC, loot boxes ...

and I'd bet they track their players and sell that data as well

plus in game ads of course

it's even worse than that

you know how always online DRM is a shitty practise?

what if i told you they're planning on having streaming only play

you will never even have the files on your computer

it won't be to long until they hijack your pc to run a cryptominer, wait for it

don't give them ideas

lol

play some CoD and your CPU+gpu stay at 100% because they are using your 'idle' power to run a cryptominer. That will likely be what is next

i mean, streaming the games is nice... but I know the assholes will shit over the players.

what is to stop some kind of free open source gaming platform thing?

like an engine and what not?

since streaming is hardware agnostic and I can run anything on even the shittiest phone then

comparing a 2-3k upgrade for a new pc vs 10-15 for a gaming streaming service. It would benefit me to get the streaming service

and long before that difference is made up the pc I would buy would be not just obsolete but likely either dead or dying

but they will fuck it up

they always do

where there's a will

there's a mistake

been using the ge force now service on my shield while the beta is free and it's been decent for me

the service gives me a virtual client with 15gb of video ram alone, so it can run literally anything

but can it run crysis?

(couldn't resist)

i might be a bit odd then