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[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Buy your games on GOG and own them forever. You can also buy a cheap, slow as hell external drive and backup your installer files, too. You can still buy games on Steam since most of them don’t have DRM. For now, Steam is also great, but a decade from now they could enshittify.

If you only do console gaming, buy physical cartridges and discs as much as possible. You’ll keep most of the game and can play whenever you want. An example of being able to play “most” of the game applies to games with legacy activation servers, such as Splinter Cell Blacklist and Watch Dogs 1. Most of the game is playable, but anything that requires a connection to that activation servers no longer works.

Finally, scour Craigslist, flea markets, and yard sales to buy old game consoles from before this DRM mess. All those old games still work great. If you buy Wii U, 3DS, and Switch 1, make sure to boot your console and every single game at least once every few years. Yes, every single one of your games. Due to NAND volatility, this will protect your games and console (Wii U) from NAND failure and increase longevity.

Edit: removed Nintendo DS from the list I provided. Nintendo DS does not use NAND; rather, the DS uses mask ROMs which does not have the limitation of NAND volatility.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wii U, DS, 3DS, and Switch 1

Pretty sure this didn't apply to DS

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Confirmed, my comment above is inaccurate as the Nintendo DS game cartridges do not use NAND; rather, Nintendo DS cartridges use mask ROMs.

Edited my comment above to remove that misinformation. Learned about this stuff years ago and I must have lumped DS into the mix.

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Sorry, to busy going to my local game shop and buying Xbox 360 games. So many games to play

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People who cloud game feed the decline. It's also funny that they end up paying more on the whole while also giving them access to more metrics and personal data on your habits they can profit off of.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

For an also worse experience that they don't even get to keep.

[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

RG35xx Pro, Usenet for ROMS

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Also, myrient for ROMs and ISOs. Jdownloader works great with it.

[–] ODuffer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks I'll give those a go!

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This doesn't follow. Even a thin client will have enough RAM to provide more gaming entertainment than you could possibly enjoy in a lifetime.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Go back to old consoles like I’ve been doing. I’m in the process of modding a PS2, and I’ve got a 3DS that is on Pretendo Network and has a fuckload of games installed on an SD card.

Edit: forgot to mention that I also recently threw my old BD burner into an external case. So now I can archive stuff to DVD like we did back in the day. I’ve been really leaning into reviving old tech.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago
[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Dont do it then?

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

And gamers will still pay for them, apparently.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I'll never know that feeling

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Okay people are going to hate me for this, but I like cloud gaming when I have it. Play a couple of games I'd never buy and move on with my life. No download times, etc.

If it's a game I want I'll buy it to keep if it does ever go offline or I chose to end my gamepass subscription.

Frankly the only thing that keeps me from using it more is the ridiculous price of game pass these days. It's basically moved me away from Xbox/Microsoft entirely. And that's why after this Xbox one dies I'm not buying from them again.

But without the price gouging, I really like cloud gaming. Truthfully I haven't come across many games that you can't buy a copy for. Some smaller games are digital only and of course the dlc, but this is a decade old issue unrelated to cloud gaming

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, streaming your games is great for the environment too...oh, wait, no it's not. Just ignore that part.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Guilting me for enjoying a game in my off time is not productive. I also wouldn't do the same to you. That's ridiculous.

I could go to work, eat, sleep, and nothing else. I could carry a single hand crank lantern room to room, and it wouldn't even come close to mitigating the damage done by exxon just this year alone.

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