toxicTom: Willfully misunderstanding people is quite an art, no?
B1tF1ghter: No. You just implied I WILLINGLY misunderstood you (which in turn implies I KNEW I misunderstood).
Reading between lines is an art of itself. And it is not guaranteed to ALWAYS be 100% accurate. Period.
If you didn't mean it then sorry but that's how I interpreted it.
You said "it
just added X" and it really sounded right up the alley of my interpretation.
joppo: "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster." B1tF1ghter: (for lols: PREQUEL MEMES: "you became the very thing you sworn to destroy" :P)
If you gaze into the abyss for too long then the abyss gazes back.
I'm going to paraphrase that and compose my own quote:
If you gaze into the abyss you accept the risk of it gazing back at some point, at which point it's only up to your personal willpower to refrain from ditching your own personal principles and embracing the abyss' ones.
- B1tF1ghter 12.12.2020 :P
It seems GOG is currently in the process of giving in into the said abyss :/
It's been going for quite a while. First they casually touched it with sheer curiousity like a child jumping into a pond in the middle of fog.
But now they are willingly letting it suck them in.
You know what's funny? Steam in all things they did great and all things they did wrong NEVER implied to be DRM-free.
So in a way GOG is more treacherous.
joppo: Thanks for the heads-up. I think I checked it out a while ago and did not find too much stuff I would like, but now I think I should look at it again with more attention.
And Zoom might be small now but I think they're going to see a sudden influx of people fed up with Gog's latest crap. I'm not sure they could ever reach Gog's size (from when Gog was the store we wanted to support), but they still might secure a decent release now and again after said growth.
B1tF1ghter: If you are interested in Japanese games then there is also
Playism. They are completely transparent whether you get DRM-free build or Steam key (often you get both when purchasing a game).
gamesfreak64: maybe gaming will be cloud only ?
benefits:
no more slow hardware : you only need fast internet,
will save lots of $,
you don't have to buy the games,
no high end pc required, only a lot of $ to get the fastest internet connection, no more faulty HD / sdd , etc etc etc...
B1tF1ghter: Correction: You need internet with enough download AND UPLOAD speed to satisfy game streaming needs (with at least 10% overhead) AND internet with low enough LATENCY. And that is something that isn't exactly a thing atm. The connections that have BOTH speed AND low latency are extreme rarity.
And by low latency I mean no more than 10 ms, more like up to 4 ms.
And even on that kind of connection you will still get worse experience than when playing directly on a local computer.
On top of that this planet DOESN'T have universal global network access EVERYWHERE and majority doesn't have even 100 Mbps, let alone higher fiber speeds.
A whole lot of this planet's area consists of people with DSL speeds or lower.
I am a part of that, I have ludicrously unstable 4 Mbps WISP and there is no way on earth I would EVER be able to cloud game on this attrocious network infrastructure.
Then there is also the matter of consumer end network equipment. Almost all people have crap one.
Most people don't even remotely know nor understand how big of a difference that makes.
gamesfreak64: sounds very promising.
B1tF1ghter: Sounds very sh*tty. Unless you live in the very server room responsible for the game you will get TOO HIGH latency. Even then you would still get HIGHER latency than when playing directly on a generating computer.
Kyousuke.: And to add insult to the injury (or a completely troll attempt) from the game, the description of the black unicorn (sword locked item through galaxy) says:
"The Black Unicorn is a Katana with a rapier-like design.
The razor-like blade is as merciless ad death itself, the guard is fashioned from premium materials and the handle is crafted so exquisitely it belongs in a museum.
Most importantly, it remains light and nimble to wield because it was forged DRM-free."
Not sure if trolling or just stupid.
B1tF1ghter: I think ironically it may be correct :P They used FORGED term :P So essentially it may be that they mean it WAS DRM-free on their LCS (local content server) when they were DEVELOPING ("forging") the game code :P
Ofcourse it is sh??? ? ty :D i know that and everyone knows that, that is why i used : sounds very promising.
You can't just really tell how you feel about something , cause people might not like it, i forgot the "" "" ( keyboard sticks on this key and it types a "" instead of a single quote....
Anyway, if games industry decide they will go online only in the future, nothing we can do about that ....:D
