Edited by GuardDogg, 26 June 2018 - 05:40 AM.
Gaming Getting Expensive.
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Posted 26 June 2018 - 05:37 AM
#2
Posted 26 June 2018 - 09:57 AM
#3
Posted 26 June 2018 - 04:10 PM
http://www.relativel...uters-to-1995s/
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One company was advertising 9,600-baud modems for as low as $500. Dell was selling a top-of-the-line 486 with a 66MHz processor, eight megabytes of RAM and a 320-megabyte hard drive for $4,400.
The single biggest difference is in the hard drive prices. Three hundred dollars got you 80 megabytes, and a one-gigabyte drive from IBM cost more than $3,000. Single speed CD-ROMs sold for $600. Today, if you could buy this hardware, it would cost between 10 and 25% of what it cost two years ago.
Lets not forget the memory optimizers. QEMM was the most popular one.
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The problem was, if you configured your PC's memory a certain way to optimize it for Windows, it wasn't necessarily what Lotus or some game you liked needed to run. So many of us ended up with half a dozen (or more) boot floppies next to our desks that configured the memory a certain way so the programs we used would run correctly.
Edited by Tarl Cabot, 26 June 2018 - 04:14 PM.
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Posted 27 June 2018 - 11:04 PM
Edited by LordNothing, 27 June 2018 - 11:06 PM.
#5
Posted 02 July 2018 - 06:27 PM
#7
Posted 03 July 2018 - 12:38 AM
Just look at Star Wars: Battlefront 2. That game was an unplayable mess, and despite what some nay sayers say about this game, that unholy abomination IS pay to win.
A lot of games out there that should have been great or outstanding are effectively killed by these practices, and these companies don't care because their target demograph are these whales that spend hundreds of thousands just to win or get that shiny new helmet. Player Unknown Battlegrounds, while it has none of the "P2W" mechanics behind it, or ties mentioned above, the cosmetic area is clearly meant to target these people willing to throw down hundreds of dollars just for a dumb ******* hoodie.
One more example of a game I ******* loathe that was outright awful in every imaginable way was Metal Gear: Phantom Pain.
Why do I have to spend real currency to speed up research on a gun?! What happened to the days of old like Snake Eater, where you can playthrough a 100 times over to find every gun imaginable, but now I have to research this stupid crap, and if I want it sooner, I have to pay for it? How about the bases? Oh gee, you have to connect online, and if you want more than a couple, pull out that wallet! I have many more issues with Phantom *** in general.
I know these few issues mentioned weren't game breaking, but it's ******* annoying when I practically have a part of a game locked out to me when I should have access to it after I already slammed down $59.99+tax.
I now simply refuse to preorder anything. I flatly refuse to buy anything that has ties to EA, Ubi or Activision.
What people should be doing and using as a Gold Standard for gaming now is CD Projekt Reds, The Witcher 3.
You don't have to like that game, but it was done the way it should have been done. The DLC were actually worthwhile, they actually felt like true expansions rather than just some ****** add on you could have slapped together on Microsoft Paint. Best of yet, it was reasonably priced. Hell, the Blood and Wine expansion was practically a steal for the amount of content and work put into that.
Maybe if gaming companies and publishers gave more a **** about their games and the consumer, they wouldn't be doing these practices, but unfortunately, the community is largely made up by mindless dolts that don't mind spending an extra $100 for a dumb hat, or 30 new lines of dialogue that doesn't add any complexity to the plot. So that's where we're at. We can scream and shout about how these companies suck and the games are going straight to the bin, but there's two parties to blame here, not just the companies/publishers, but the consumer that says "this is okay, I'm fine with this".
Vote with your wallet, folks. That's all I have to say.
#8
Posted 03 July 2018 - 09:00 PM
#9
Posted 04 July 2018 - 03:06 AM
#10
Posted 04 July 2018 - 03:08 PM
DrtyDshSoap, on 03 July 2018 - 12:38 AM, said:
Just look at Star Wars: Battlefront 2. That game was an unplayable mess, and despite what some nay sayers say about this game, that unholy abomination IS pay to win.
A lot of games out there that should have been great or outstanding are effectively killed by these practices, and these companies don't care because their target demograph are these whales that spend hundreds of thousands just to win or get that shiny new helmet. Player Unknown Battlegrounds, while it has none of the "P2W" mechanics behind it, or ties mentioned above, the cosmetic area is clearly meant to target these people willing to throw down hundreds of dollars just for a dumb ******* hoodie.
One more example of a game I ******* loathe that was outright awful in every imaginable way was Metal Gear: Phantom Pain.
Why do I have to spend real currency to speed up research on a gun?! What happened to the days of old like Snake Eater, where you can playthrough a 100 times over to find every gun imaginable, but now I have to research this stupid crap, and if I want it sooner, I have to pay for it? How about the bases? Oh gee, you have to connect online, and if you want more than a couple, pull out that wallet! I have many more issues with Phantom *** in general.
I know these few issues mentioned weren't game breaking, but it's ******* annoying when I practically have a part of a game locked out to me when I should have access to it after I already slammed down $59.99+tax.
I now simply refuse to preorder anything. I flatly refuse to buy anything that has ties to EA, Ubi or Activision.
What people should be doing and using as a Gold Standard for gaming now is CD Projekt Reds, The Witcher 3.
You don't have to like that game, but it was done the way it should have been done. The DLC were actually worthwhile, they actually felt like true expansions rather than just some ****** add on you could have slapped together on Microsoft Paint. Best of yet, it was reasonably priced. Hell, the Blood and Wine expansion was practically a steal for the amount of content and work put into that.
Maybe if gaming companies and publishers gave more a **** about their games and the consumer, they wouldn't be doing these practices, but unfortunately, the community is largely made up by mindless dolts that don't mind spending an extra $100 for a dumb hat, or 30 new lines of dialogue that doesn't add any complexity to the plot. So that's where we're at. We can scream and shout about how these companies suck and the games are going straight to the bin, but there's two parties to blame here, not just the companies/publishers, but the consumer that says "this is okay, I'm fine with this".
Vote with your wallet, folks. That's all I have to say.
this is why ive gone from 10 games a year to about 2. last year i only bought one and ive yet to buy a game this year.
#11
Posted 05 July 2018 - 05:43 AM
Joanna Conners, on 04 July 2018 - 03:06 AM, said:
I like my indie games because I know I'm not going to get rammed by a hard one.
But on Steam...There's like a pile of garbage with a few hidden gems waiting to be found. On one end, I have to waddle through a sea of garbo just to play something like Divinity: Original Sin 1/2, or I have to wait at least a week after a release of a big title to see if it's going to be a big steaming pile of crap.
I can't help but reminisce of the horror stories told when I was younger about the video game crash in the 80's(?).
#12
Posted 05 July 2018 - 11:08 PM
#13
Posted 06 July 2018 - 02:01 AM
If just for gaming its kind of expensive upfront but its a cheap form of entertainment compared to drinking and other pursuits
I use my system for moar than games, music, movies, tinkering and I build the best system I can afford
I build it so I can have a better system for the same price, pick and choose the parts wid the best bang for buck CPU/GPU.
Should give you at least 4-5 years that way, CPU speed hasnt changed that much in donkeys years and most apps still dont use all the cpu cores real guid. So a decent system will last a while.
If u spend 1000 dollars thats 250 a year over 4 years, thats moar than a console but you get PC graphics, bigger game library and flexabilty to do other things
PC arn't difficult to put together so long as u look out for static electricity, check the internet
#14
Posted 07 July 2018 - 09:54 PM
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