For everyone being all fatalistic and the whole ‘there is nothing you can do’ approach. Vote with your wallet. No money for them means no power for them.

We are the customer, not their bitch. If they don’t provide value, they receive none in return. They go broke and someone else will provide the service we all want.

Remember, things got this shitty because most people were fine with Big Tech gradually making things shittier. I look back and realize I’ve been waiting for the One Enormous Dealbreaker for over a decade, but consumers keep moving the red line.

My biggest regret is going with 32 of instead of 64GB of DDR5, when I built a new Ryzen 7000 PC in 2022 to replace my aging 4th gen i5.

But what I don’t regret is ignoring everyone telling me not to do all sorts of unspeakable things to snag a $1600 4090 at launch, especially given that it was never sold that cheaply ever again. It’s a beast of a card and I’ll easily get a decade of gaming out of it. Saw 4090s going for over $3K used on eBay lately, so yeah I’m happy with making what was a dumb decision at the time.

Meanwhile me playing on linux

IMO the only thing the cloud is useful for in this context is maintaining and syncing saves. Other than that I want my games running locally, thank you.

Imagine paying some rando to rent their computer. You can totally trust them, right? They’re not in the Epstein files, right?

RG35xx Pro, Usenet for ROMS

If there is no ownership then there is no stealing/pirating by sailing the high seas.

This doesn’t follow. Even a thin client will have enough RAM to provide more gaming entertainment than you could possibly enjoy in a lifetime.

I’ll stop playing before that happens

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Any noticeable latency and I won’t even give something a chance to try it. Needing to send my inputs over the internet, wait for them to get processed, and then have the video output streamed back to my local setup means even a small amount of latency. 40ms (which is what I expect for my connection in online gaming servers) would kill the experience of many games, especially rhythm games or other high-reflex games like the entire fighting game genre. Some stuff like Turn Based RPGs could possibly benefit from cloud gaming for users with underperforming hardware, but that’s it. Strong No Thanks F*** Off from me when it comes to cloud gaming.

Good thing I have a decent Xbox 360 collection so I guess Don Mattrick was right all along.

That’s not it.

It’s how they’ll:

Charge more for the service whenever they feel like it.

You have to subscribe to each gaming service separately if you want access to their games. Just like Netflix or Prime Video, except there’s no way to sail the high seas for these games as they’ll all be cloud based.

Unbundle your access – you now get unlimited hours for one game or pay more for all games with top tier, pay for every DLC unless you pay for top tier, etc.

Pay for skins, upgrades, mods, your “own” server, the ability to record yourself playing for your social media, voice chat…

Pay for top tier lobbies so you load in faster.

Pay for the best maps.

And of course the service will enshittify. Dropped and slow connections, shittier game quality, glitches and exploits go unpatched, etc.

The ability to exploit and extort gamers is almost endless once they take away our PCs and consoles.