I fear wishful thinking, gaming consumers (demand) don't wield such power over supply.

The format doesn't work as well but lemmy try ...

Perhaps ...

Yeah... allow me to doubt those gamers...

Are those gamers the same that whine about FC26 being a copy-paste of FC25 and then proceed to buy it full price?

Or the same whinning about the last COD being ai slop in a review after 358 hours of gameplay?

Or those saying "I won't buy another pokemon game ever after the last shit they released" just to then buy the new shit they make?

A few gamers will boycot, but most of them are going to keep buying everything from their favourite series non-stop because, apparently, they can't live without it.

There are way too many people lining up to fellate Gabe for this to be accurate.

People might get pissed off when DRM is buggy enough for them to notice, but most gamers don't realise that they don't actually own a single game in their Steam library.

Oh sure, its the gamers who are doing the beating huh?

I doubt ai companies are scared of us… but maybe they should be.

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Publishers seeing this garbage.

Here I am, happy with my 10 yo desktop, playing games from my backlog, and teaching my kids to play Duck Tales and Dynablaster. Can't wait for to introduce them to The Secret of Monkey Island and Sam and Max Hit the Road. From what I hear, most parents in my neighbourhood are doing something similar, so there's little peer pressure to get the latest hardware to play the latest games.

Except all big games still have DRM, nothings happened to Cloud gaming, and the AI companies are still churning out shit.

Let's stop masturbating to ourselves and realise the companies aren't threatened by us at all.

The last two people are the same person.

They might be buying up hardware with AI as their excuse today, but tomorrow they will be indefinately renting you processing power that you're unable to buy(because they cornered and manipulated the hardware market)

What are they gonna do? Complain online while proceeding to buy said game?

Fighting DRM is cool but what really pisses me off is Rootkit Games. There are A LOT more than there used to be.

2x? Try 4x+ for fast DDR5

2x? I bought 32gb DDR5 for £100 just over a year ago. I just saw some “on offer” for £350.

Uh... gamers are the so weak, they buy anything that's shiny enough. Games by big studios pushing out shiny crap still make millions. Gamers can't stop buying skins and will have wars about them too. EA, Blizzard, RockStar Games, Ubisoft, and many other companies are still huge companies because gamers barely care. Only once in a while do they massively reject large games.

Only about 1.2M EU gamers even cared to sign in the EU initiative to Stop Killing Games. There are 450M EU citizens. There are way more EU gamers than just 1.2M and the vast majority didn't care enough to sign an initiative in their own interest.

RAM makers are safe. Gamers will just give in and pay 3k+ for a gaming rig with welded on RAM (or whatever shit it is crApple does to make their devices unupgradeable).

2x

Yeah, you wish it was just 2x, more like 5x, especially for the RAM.

Maybe we should shift piracy operations from digital games to physical shipping containers full of tasty RAM.

The booty is out there somewhere maties! 🏴‍☠️

It’s usually not the idea itself, it’s the way it gets implemented 😅

AI companies Hardware companies are looking for their record profits and AI is just a useful excuse.

An independent studio that develops a game I'm playing recently launched a "supporters edition" which includes pretty much OST, a bunch of wallpapers and some concept art. It's essentially a donation.

I thought - wow, with half the videogame world owned by Embracer Group I actually want to support this smaller studio.

It's