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BiggestBulb, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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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.

Cethin,

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.

c0mbatbag3l, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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“Imagine paying for the internet twice.” -PC Gamers

Nacktmull, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

Laughs in PC gaming

GBU_28, do gaming w It's wild that they get away with charging for it

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.

Krackalot,

Some people have friends they wanna play with. Or so I hear.

Swedneck,
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PC, steam deck

dexa_scantron, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.
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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

ahornsirup, do gaming w I'm fine.
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Myron basically admits he’s full of shit in 2. Jet (perhaps not under that name) is a pre-war drug. It’s a complete nonissue.

pokemaster787,

I think there is merit to the “Myron is full of shit” theory for sure, but isn’t one of the primary ingredients in Jet Brahmin feces?

Can’t exactly imagine that existed pre-war

Kalothar,

Manure? Why does it have to be a two headed mutated cow instead of a regular cow

ahornsirup,
@ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

Kalothar,

Is the reason the drugs names are fake because of censorship? Like they didn’t want a higher rating or something

set_secret, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

to be fair more powerful than completly non-existant isn’t really that impressive.

burliman,

Unless they mean the idea of God that has driven the religious movements throughout all of human history. Now that is a real god.

set_secret,

fair point

beardown, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

This style is drastically better than anything today.

At least it’s an ethos

Duamerthrax,
IggyTheSmidge, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

Anyone remember this XBox ad?

https://youtu.be/Hu_0GdXW904

Apparently it was banned, but I remember seeing it fairly regularly so it must've been around for a while before that happened...

Dimok,

Lol yes…yes I do! I didn’t know it was banned because it was played quite a bit on whatever I used to watch. Man I want to say G4 but I’m not sure the time lines work out.

CodexArcanum, do gaming w I'm fine.

I remember being irritated about this in Falllout 3, but even more so that every person pre-war from the poorest child to the most exalted CEOs hoarded bottle caps and stuffed them into every ready container. Almost like they knew I’d need the cash decades later.

trafficnab,

Pre-war Fallout 4 population storing their homemade hardware store guns in their safes before the bombs fell

Zron,

*centuries later

The Bethesda fallout games take place 200 years after the Great War.

Imagine walking around America today and someone has the Skelton of a revolutionary war soldier in their half burnt house. Or finding a flintlock from 1760 in someone’s desk and it’s in mint condition. That’s what every Bethesda game has

PsychedSy,

Lincoln’s repeater is the tits.

CodexArcanum,

Honestly, I wrote 200 years initially then couldn’t remember if they were actually that dumb, second guessed myself, and hedged on “decades.”

But yes, realizing that many places in America would have been uninhabited wilderness 200 years before today, the idea that major metro areas would still be untouched ruins 200 years after the war is just ludicrous.

I just put all this stuff in the same “ignore it for the gameplay” box as torches still being lit in ancient tombs and backwoods merchants accepting 1000 year old gold coins as currency for buying beef jerky or magic shields or whatever.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.
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If the PS1 is more powerful than God, then what is the PS5? 😮

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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More powerful than “God 5”

soloner,

If we assume God is God 0, then power(PS(x)) > power(God x - 1)

Cqrd,

Why would you make that assumption though? They’re clearly index 1 people over at Sony, considering the next PlayStation to release was the PS2

stevedidWHAT, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.
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If they even had a fraction of the knowledge about today’s games they’d shit themselves lmao.

Just wait until these fancy AI content generators are integrated by AAA companies and aren’t just mods.

🤩 stay positive y’all, happy new year!

Kolanaki,
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The other day someone posted an NES cover and it straight up said “ultra realistic computer generated graphics” on it. 🤣

tiredofsametab,

At the time, the comparison was probably against Atari 2600 and other early systems

pelerinli,

Open world RPG’s like Bannerlord or Skyrim will be “real” alternative reality. Just think, today you can chit-chat in Bannerlord with general NPC. Tomorrow you can get radiant quest from giver by talking to Jarls. In future you can find secret quests and spell-check your way around in Fallout.

YaksDC, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

That’s really not saying much, I would rather have a console with at least a little power.

Dimok, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

Yeah, I’m not sure who kicked it off but the Nintendo, Sega wars in the 80s kind of started with the quirky ‘edgy’ crap and that carried over into the PS/Xbox era. The Nintendo power mags had some seriously nonsense ads and the tv commercials kind of ran the gambit. A lot of ‘we’re gamers, parents just wouldn’t understand’ type ads. Here’s one that even teen me was like ‘wtf?’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg

Fredselfish,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

WTF that horrible way to advertise that game.

soloner,

I’m not sure if the mental/high person is meant to represent Link or the player… Which one is worse?

Dimok,

The only thing I can think, is it was marketed to those ‘cool’ parents. “Like, wow man! My kid needs this edgy game!” Even that’s a stretch…

newtraditionalists,

I'm so glad this is the one you linked. Such an icon of a commercial lol

simple, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

The PlayStation 3 baby commercial was also something else. Playstation has had some real weird marketing moments.

CowsLookLikeMaps,

What in the what

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

I’m hoping I can make it to 2078 for the spherical PS9

Vilian,

If we’re talking about it then it woeked

otp,

I get where you’re coming from, but ads don’t just want people talking, they want to turn people into buyers.

After the success of the PS2, virtually their entire market knew about the PS3. But even with those weird ads and their previous massive success with the PS2, the PS3 was selling terribly poorly around the time of the baby ad, IIRC.

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