Also, just because the active ingredient semi-naturally occurs in brahmin dung (only if they’re fed a specific pre-war feed) doesn’t mean that that’s the only place where it can be found or that a cow/cow adjacent digestive tract is the only place where the requisite reactions can occur. Jet is basically inhaled meth, there’s no reason to assume that it can’t be mass manufactured.
It goes pretty hard, but it’s no “John Romero’s about to make you his bitch.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatana_infamous_advertisement.jpg
Just stop paying for it. After just a few weeks you’ll realize it was a silly addiction. There’s lots of great games that don’t require a subscription.
I'ma be the devil's advocate - even if they were free, eventually someone would have made it a subscription-based model since PSN servers cost money. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but it's money.
I’m not so sure. Steam servers also cost money. They make way more money from their cut of sales. On console the same thing happens. If not requiring the subscription gets more users, then you make more money by not having it.
They aren’t charging because it costs money to run. They’re charging because it’s more profitable.
Castle Wolfenstein was such a fun game! Not just one of the first stealth games, but one of the first procedurally generated games too! Most people think that it was Elite. Haven’t played or thought about it in a few years… Maybe I’ll fire it up tonight.
Alternately, videogames now: I have a farm and it's the nicest farm of them all, and all the chickens have names and are demonstrably happy. Also I moonlight as an interior decorator for all my friends with whom I have deep personal relationships.
Just saying, we may be playing different types of games here.
There’s a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.
Microsoft was like “chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable”. At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.
Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.
It’s why I went back to PC gaming. As an aging man with children, I am no longer interested in having a bleeding edge gaming machine so I went to consoles for a while. It was too painful keeping a subscription on something I don’t often play so I didn’t bother with a PS5 and got a steamdeck instead.
Hundreds is an exaggeration, I’ll admit lol. But I’ve probably got around 20 or so from retroid, anbernic, and miyoo, and each one has an SD card with pretty much every retro game on it up through PS1 :)
I gave my nephew: My NES, N64, PS2, Gamecube, and Gameboy Advance, with all the games I had. He played the hell out of them! In many cases, he unlocked things I never had, and he’d always talk about them and his progress.
I’ll be honest – I miss those things a lot – but it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, seeing someone get to experience all those games for the first time, just like I had.
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