Instead, they implement visual upgrades? Really?

No, they instead took the bold choice to make overwhelming visual downgrades

Oh boy, wait until you discover real fucking animals

I wish they were lazy, because then we wouldn’t have gotten this pile of garbage at all since the old avatars were already good enough.

Are there really that many games shutting down so soon after release? I know there’s a handful of games that basically just flopped out the gate and got canned soon after, but nearly everything I’ve encountered has run for 5+ years, or at least is in the position to do so if it’s not that old yet. Is it just that I’m over in the corner where the games don’t suck and I’m out of touch with how things are?

The one that came with the phone

What the fuck are you smoking that enjoying a consistent competetivie environment is propaganda?

While I agree that anti-cheat software is spyware, server side moderation by humans would be incredibly costly on the company.

It would also do a poor job at quickly responding to cheaters. Which is fine in some games, but in more competitive titles, the difference between a cheater getting caught in a round or two and a dozen or so is a big deal, with how many people had games effected.

My vote is to just not have official servers for games anymore

Nah, official servers are great for anything competitive, since they provide a single definitive competitive ladder and player base. Nobody gives a fuck about challenger rank 1 on Joe schmoe’s home server where it’s him and his buddies from school. Not to mention how difficult 8t would be to balance a game with next to no data to use.

Just picked up hot wheels unleashed 2 on the steam sale. It’s an absolute blast, definitely near the top of the heap of racing games for me

Because it’s the next step in exerting their demands for control?

Because they prop up the lowest and reduce competition

I mean the above still applies. Open source hardware standards and system architectures don’t really matter when you’re still reliant on the same handful of companies in the industry to carry the weight of actually making the hardware.

And also a free games tap

Great, more union slop.

Have they even made anything? Or just jerked themselves off and taken home a paycheck?

At that rate it just sounds like you’re trying to categorically redefine SaaS to just be the crappy ones, while excluding anything with a reason to be a service

I mean it’s basically inevitable that major hardware was going to be fairly dominated by big companies, just like how you’re not going to find many small businesses producing regular ass non-vr monitors and the like, especially at the high end of things.

But overall, it’s still a fairly diverse market. Beyond what you’ve mentioned, there’s the valve index as easily the most major competitor. I’ve heard good things about pimax headsets, and they seem to be as close to a small business as the industry really can manage. Rumors say Sony is bringing psvr2 compatability to PC, which would be a huge advantage given the insanely cheap price tag for the quality. The apple vision exists, I guess, though it’s locked in apples walled garden. The htc vive still seems to be around.

Mullvad is the only one, though it’s in large part due to me not being in a situation where I have any important software needs in my personal life, meaning I can get away with just free options and cracked versions whenever I need something.

He’s getting downvotes because he’s acting like a jackass. Like yeah, I’m pretty sure everyone here has some axe or another to grind with Nintendo, they do plenty of shitty things. But to act like their games are somehow objectively bad and that everyone who likes them is just stupid? That’s just divorced from reality and overall pretty immature. Obviously it’s plenty possible for someone to not personally enjoy the games Nintendo puts out, art is highly subjective, but their games are generally solid.

“I want worse games because it annoys the people who want good games”

I hear people talk about ads in windows 10 all the time, but I can’t say I’ve ever personally run into them, unless you’re one of those people who calls the “try switching to edge” in your browser settings an ad