Homo Homini Lupus Est
Oh yes. It even worked. I felt bad if I didn’t pay. But also it wasn’t that easy. For me, back then, only one big shop had games for those rare computers. And it was a 1hr drive with my bike…
Oh yes…I still know the maps and cheatcodes by memory. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago!
I buy if I like. I won’t if I don’t. My library is already too big, that loading it takes ages.
I pirate movies and series though. Without exception AND for convenience.
Why? Unless you’ve got hundreds of millions or more, you’re just another poor sobbing bastard for the elite. Just a bit less poor than the others. Insignificant in everything.
Also, I paid double market-average for employees, with come-and-go-as-you-please and profit-sharing. Everyone.
I rent the houses/apts dirt-cheap. At the legally allowed minimum but with hidden added boni or paybacks or whatever else I come up with. Free power, free water etc. I don’t want to profit of someone else’s inability to own. I want to be able to look in the mirror without disgust.
And also I work for free in a shelter-thingie for abused or broken people, I help where I can.
If everyone would do that, we’d all be better off, wouldn’t we be?
What do you do to better society with the given means? Considering I’m the problem and you’re not? Egocentrism, narcissism, missing empathy and machiavellism (so basically the dark triad) are the root sources that rot the world (while being highly rewarded), not money.
Paying is up to the user of course. It was just meant as a “it’s not as bad as others in DRM”. Also you could have hundreds of games for 0,- there, too.
For me it was indeed the convenience. I was pirate since the 80s but steam gave a reason to just buy. Be it updates, workshop, community all around a game, news for that etc.
True. But steam’s DRM is trivial. So if you downloaded your games and steam goes dark, you can easily “crack” them. I often do this to circumvent the 2hr refund window and test longer. As many games try to keep you entertained for at least 2hrs 😁
Not much different in Germany either. What once was needed to buy a decent house is now merely enough for a tiny apartment.
I just recently sold one of my houses for 900k. Which I bought for 300k 25yrs ago. And it even was due for major renovations. Well, could have. Actually sold to them for 500. Didn’t wanna be an idiot but also didn’t want to rip them off. I did nothing of value to justify that gain. And they were very happy. Still unfair…
The market is broken.
If you go amoral and unfeeling, all most people do is just breed slaves for our overlords and their desires in hopes they have someone that will take care of them later.
Besides, gratefulness for being birthed was kinda the topic of this thread. Kids that need to show some gratitude for aaaalll the love and care they received for being just another consumer and worker that will be milked until they’re dry. But that’s another topic…
Nope. On wifey switch she has breath of the wild. Would’ve loved to play this (probably) but it’s controller-only and I horribly suck with those. Only non-time-critical and no reaction-based games are okay-ish. I never understood how people can be pretty good in competitive fps with those things and watch those with awe.
I went from joystick to m+k. This is so wired in my brain, I never catched up with controllers.
So there’s not much motivation to emulate 😑
Oh yes lol, and those. But they had to up their protection when we just included the scanned manual 😁
Me too. Let’s just hope it is 😁
I don’t understand
It’s just your steam-level. Which you can basically push with money or time (a bit at least). It has no real inherent benefits beyond a certain level. It’s to show off basically. For me it was the thrill of finding the most efficient automated method to gain it as fast as possible. A silly idea in hindsight, but I can get pretty obsessive 😑
Also how big is your steam library
Too big. And while it might sound much, it’s over a course of over a decade. And I buy whatever comes out and is adjacent to my likings. So my backlog is too vast to manage in this lifetime. Nowadays I buy much less. Either to support indie devs or those I REALLY wanna play.
And where I live, this money wouldn’t buy you a house. Not even an apartment. Except you don’t mind burned down houses or so 😁
Wow…this is sarcasm, right? Nowadays it isn’t always obvious…
I was a pirate since the 80s. I even financed my first sports car with warez-cds 😁 But steam does have its merits. Don’t worry about updates. As only the major games get updates by pir8s. But as steam’s DRM is trivial, it’s kinda easy-piracy. I already have like 50TB downloaded. If they ever go nuts I’ll download all my favourites and write a script to un-drm them.
And I would love for gog to have current games too. Would stop buying at steam, but 99% of what gog has to offer I already have on steam for many years
Sounds great! Although I less worry about Chinese servers than american servers 😁 I would even be fine if it were shittier then, or totally manual programming or whatever. Just not clouds that get data I know nothing about and have no agency over it.
It just rings a bell, but that’s about it. But I remember the early copy protections…like these paper wheels to scroll through symbols to enter a code before playing.
True that. I even enjoyed pong. 8 pixels, 3 of them moving 😁
As the Atari was my last console, I never played a single Mario or Zelda…I have to admit that 😊
Oh. Wow. Thanks. Last time I checked the market it was horrible and then I just gave up on robovacs. Too many different to reverse engineer every single one. But great, gonna check this one out deeply. Thanks man.
That is wise. I wish they had more than the old games and the handful newer ones. Their moment will come when gaben signs off and steam will enshittify
€100k more or less. I boycotted steam until left4dead2. Then I caved in. 50k was for the level though. And yes I know how stupid that is. The rest was games bought on steam. Then there might be more through other sources that provide steam-keys.
But it Wouldn’t be really lost. At least not the games I already downloaded. Steam’s DRM is trivial, so I would have at least those left.
Also, nothing to worry until gaben signs off. I predict it will then be turned into the usual us-american enshittification-craphole everything else is.
Hehe, sure. Although my backlog is currently at 350 titles I really wanna play. The scarcity of the 80s and 99s really had its benefits…