• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    48 minutes ago

    Yeah… no.

    There’s no way in Hell.

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

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I dont think anyone should pay a dime for this, but i also dont see what is so horrendously wrong about it, IF it was only applied to new purchases. Nothing retroactive.

    Streaming takes up compute. Maybe if they charged more for the games, but they should actually charge less. But that wont happen either. Regular price for a streamed game with fee is a terrible thing.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

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

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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.

  • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    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.