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  • absquatulate@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world#StopPayingGames
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    13 days ago

    We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince a meaningful amount of people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck lol.

    I figure this battle is lost so I started hoarding and archiving everything i come across that works/can work offline



  • I agree that hardware-wise it’s a few years late to the party, but I suspect it will find it’s niche. If valve manage to sell out a recently overpriced deck and seriously underestimate the demand for an overpriced controller, who’s to say this won’t at least pay its bills? Besides, it’s an interesting device, it’s customizable and mildly upgradeable, and it has a draw to it. After initially seeing news of it I remember instantly thinking “gotta buy one, even at 500-700€” and only later thinking “wtf kind of use do I have for it”. Anyway, time will tell.









  • I do not. This rethoric makes it sound like gamers share the fault for the industry being shit, when the fault lies solely with the publishers and sometimes devs. I do agree with “no crunch and decent wages” bit - if it takes a decade to make it and costs a lot fine, so be it, take your time, but I want and I like options: shorter games, longer games, pretty ones, 8-bit one, realistic graphics, story or not is of no concern, I want them all. What I don’t want is this late stage capitalism infinite growth bullshit which stifles studios from innovating, keeps franchises going forever on mediocre entries and closes studios for short term gains.