Anon is a PC gamer

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I suspect people will just keep their existing equipment running for as long as possible, and secondhand equipment will be worth almost as much as it was when new.

  This won’t last forever.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’ve been waiting for GPU prices to come back down to earth since 2019. I really hope you’re right in a few more years.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think we’re at the point where PCs are an afterthought in the GPU market, and have been for a long time.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Modders to the reacue, like always.

  modrinth.com/resourcepack/potato-graphics

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  • themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    you can just use sodium + lithium + ferritecore and whatever other optimization mods you like for a much better speedup and no loss in quality at all

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cloud gaming is effectively impossible due to little things like the speed of light. Sure, you could play Civilization via cloud but good fucking luck with competitive shooters.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s so stupid. It’s a solution looking for a problem.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m happy that Google Stadia died.

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  • Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That and the US being such a large market while having some of the worst internet in the developed world. Last I read only ¼ of the network is fiber 

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What if everyone is on the cloud in the shooter?

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone can suffer together, yay

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would be cool to play civ5 on a long term server.

    I’m thinking something that emails you when its your turn too. Like playing chess over mail.

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• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Second Gaming Crash

  Wait, what was the first gaming crash?

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    1983. The video game industry effectively collapsed entirely.

    There were something like 14 major console systems on the market, all incompatible with each other. None had decent quality control for the games. At the same time home computers were starting to be a thing so the hobby money started going in that direction.

    In sum that caused an effectively total collapse of the industry in the USA. It took until the late 80s for the market to start to recover when Nintendo released a new console. Notably, this console was not marketed as a game console – it was the Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (with a shell deliberately styled like a VCR) in the West.

    Several major companies left the market (like Magnavox or Coleco) or were unable to compete when the market recovered (Atari).

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The Atarri one, except there were multiple smaller crashes in gaming history plus effects of the economy on the gaming market.

    The mini-crashes include:

    • American home computer bubble burst of 1983-84
    • Some British game publishers go bankrupt, then immediately their former employees form new companies
    • Game developers betting big on MMO style games, only for them to realize no one wants to rent their games
    • Paid smartphone games falling out of favor due to pay2win slop

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    • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Oh, yeah, Atari would have been before my time, so don’t feel so bad about not thinking of that one.

      I figured it was in reference to the MMO craze dying down, but that felt more like a strong speed bump than a crash.

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• CMDR_Horn@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Batman Lego just announced it was reducing ram recommendations to 16gb. Its a start

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  • zo0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Reducing… to 16GB?

    It’s over

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• Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re just going to be demaking games incrementally as we scrounge older and older hardware for our mad max gaming PCs until we’re playing a text adventure version of Minecraft on a green screen terminal.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t see either of these happening in the near future, TBH. They just failed making cloud gaming happen after pouring tons of resources into it, but I also just can’t believe that companies that make severely unoptimized games are going to change their ways.

  That said, most gaming is already on phones, and many of the popular multiplayer games are already running fine on very weak hardware.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    If the future of games is barely interactive pay2win slop on smart phones, then I don’t want games at all.

    (Can someone recommend me non-freemium slop for Android? Any emulators not littered with ads?)

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some game houses are actually optimizong their game but it’s very few and can be counter on the fingers of a single mutilated hand

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know. The ones who would do it in response to hardware shortages are mostly already doing it anyway. The ones who don’t, won’t.

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• Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If big corporation fail to improve their games graphics, then gamers will have to find other criterias to choose what games to buy, like gameplay of actual content.
  If anything, it will leave more space for indie games. And larger productions will either stagnate on graphics or start producing more cartoonish content.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Or they use upscaling as a crutch even harder and we get narratives that include your character having frosted glass for eyes.

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