• Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well I play video games, and woo boy, let me tell you about microtransactions, crap DLC content, season passes, never ending early access, unfinished releases, and anti cheat root-kits! If you’re on console you pay a premium to play online, if you’re on PC you have 18 different game launchers and DRM bullshit. Digital only stuff means you don’t own your games, cant loan them or trade them or sell them. I’m sure there’s more, and admittedly there’s good with the bad. Graphics have come a long way, and some rare innovations are fun to see. I still have fun with it, but wow it is a fucked up landscape full of way more land mines than it used to be.

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      4 months ago

      When I was a kid me and my friends who lived on my street would always trade or borrow our NES and SNES cartridges

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        4 months ago

        You can still do this with physical console games.

        Steam also has the family sharing support where you can burrow games from people.