Because that was the beginning of the adventure game era where there was no concept of game design and ensuring that the games made logical sense, hence the birth of “moon logic”, thanks Roberta. These games were also made to be obtuse because games were very expensive back then and making obscure logic was an incentive to make things more “worth” it, often intending to make the game last months of play time to solve their “logic” puzzles and you had to be in tune with the game designer to get them.

Not to mention that due to intention or lack of game design, these games were notorious for allowing you to put yourself into a unwinnable state with no way to correct it, things like Space Quest with the alien kiss of death that won’t trigger until the very end of the game or that Kings Quest game where you had one shot to throw a boot at a cat or you’d be dead man walking.

Not being able to finish these games wasn’t even unusual back then without the help of friends or BBS. Heck I had games adventure games I bought from that era that I never finished until the got re-released on Steam.

I guess we’ll see how that goes come September timeframe.

A PC where I can’t install what I want? WTF is the point of that bullshit.

Thanks but I’ll stick to my steam deck for my portable Linux computing needs where I can do what the hell I want.

I’m right there with you. I’m past the point of wanting to own a console for the exclusives, if they never get released and there’s no emulator available, I’m absolutely okay with never playing them.

Yup. And now due to GaaS only on the company owned server, this game will never be preserved and playable for those few that would like to play it.

Couldn’t happen to a better fascist supporter.

This is going to make the Dropkick Murphys concert I’m going to just that much better with this news.

You mean the same AMD that just announced a deal where they’re devoting 20% of their CPU AND GPU production to Meta AI?

Yeah, they aren’t going to be doing crap for gamers either.

Good

Kind of a zombie band at this point.

Also, the response of continuing to play really gives Jello’s initial criticism that the band was betraying their morals for money, kinda hits harder now in my opinion.

Honestly though, it’s been very eye opening about the various bands’ reactions to this situation.

Really reinforces my belief that the stockmarket is driven by idiots.

Reminds me of this old Kal cartoon:

Granted AI will probably doom us all but not how the substance post says it will.

I think stoat would be viable of they had voice chat working with their self hosting option but yeah, right now it’s a no for me because of that.

Gaming with Linux man. Just take the plunge now before AI consumes your rig completely.

Come on, you know damn well that if the bubble pops, the global taxpayers will be bailing them and the rest of the affected companies out with direct payments just like the last global crash caused by corporations.

Executive bonuses and buy backs for corporations and austerity for the working man who just wants to play a video game is always the plan.

Come on, they never were. They’re just another company with no ethics other “make all the money, consumers be damned” and always have been.

Don’t forget that Persona, the Peter Theil backed company, was found by whitehats to contain a us government backend for them to run facial recognition against government watchlists and scanned your chat history to determine your age and also reported any “suspicious activity” to the government.

The time to delete this privacy cancer is now.

Self hosting posted a good example off a recent vibe coding security nightmare.

https://lemmy.zip/post/59649386

Honestly I never even heard of this game.

They wont abandon the brand but it will be much more focused monetization and exploration of existing gamers. Pushing for more subscriptions, more live servcies, pushing for their streaming services, and using gamers to train their AI.

Given their push for copilot gaming, wouldn’t surprise me if they use the last two to make some kind of claim they’re use AI to reduce latency by having AI “predict” your moves making streaming better.

I think that gamers will fight tooth and nail to keep the yoke on.

That would be a closing a gate after the horses have escaped situation.

Letting unverifiable code in would damage to developers and users that wouldn’t be easy to disentangle and erode trust in the product, killing it.