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Quoting: KlaasBut it requires a lot more power everywhere else, so it should be avoided at all costs.

It's a nice way to think, but like people who argue against capitalistic ways all the time, it's just not grounded in the reality of how we all live our lives. Should I care about how much energy servers on everything I use cost the planet? Yes. Do I? Not really, I'm just trying to survive and keep costs low like everyone else.

Everytime I read this kind of argument, I'm wondering if the environmental impact of the over the seas shipments of the new devices is taken into account... I guenuinely don't know, but I'm wondering if a few shipments to the likes of google, for their servers with the streaming impact is much worse than 25+ millions of units of consoles or pc being shipped to 25+ millions of different adresses, on huge ocean liners/trucks/airplanes that burns lots of unecological fuel... I'm guenuinely curious.

I don't know... but the 25+ million people will still need a device to access their games either way. Maybe less often, though.

Not if you already have the device, because it runs on a potato. Yes there will be new devices to be bought, but streaming will lengthen your device's lifespan, thus less shipments required.

And think about electronics... Even more obvious with DIY PCs... Parts rarely comes from one place... I don't know. I'm wondering.

Edit1: Seriously, let's pretend we are in a 100% streaming world (absolutely not a wish; I like local gaming too much)... I'm probably still running my old i7-3770 from 2012. No Graphics card, one less shipment. :wink:

Edit2: And now, I'm thinking about all the upgrades I wouldn't have bought afterward... That much less shipments... Yikes!

Edit3: x25 million users? And one device for all services? No need for a Playstation and/or Xbox and/or Steam Deck and/or PC and/or Nvidia Shield, etc... One device that does it all in the form factor that you prefer? Think about all the shipments that gets avoided... Ok. It's highly theoric, but see where it could lead us?

Yeah, except in a real streaming-only world, since there would be no alternative to the streaming services, and there would be only a few of them, they would cut anti-competitive deals with each other and all start mandating the hardware you use, so you'd have various incompatible-with-each-other consoles all over again that you'd have to spend money on . . . not because there was any valid technical reason for it, but because they could.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyPeople didn't actually have to pay a monthly fee for Stadia; it's just Google's terrible marketing made it look like they did.

google or a bunch of influencers who lied?

All I know is what I read here, and back when it was significant news Liam regularly noted both (a) that the actual deal did not require subscription, and (b) that figuring this out from anything Google were saying was nigh impossible. He opined repeatedly both that the service itself worked pretty well and was, all concerns about the fundamental nature of streaming game services aside, a decent offer, and that in his opinion Google were doing a perfectly pathetic job of selling it. Not just the bad messaging on subscription, but terrible ads and all kinds of stuff. I'm prepared to take his word.

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Quoting: WorMzyWow. I reserved a second Steam Deck five days ago (24th September), hoping to buy one for my partner as a Christmas present, and I got the "your reservation will expire in two days" email today.

There was 4 days, 21 hours, and 15 minutes between placing a deposit, and getting the reservation email. Well done, Valve.

Wow indeed. At that rate, pretty soon we'll be out of the "reserving" stage and at the "just buy it" stage.

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Quoting: ShmerlOh, Skyrim? It took them forever but good to see a DRM-free release for it.

To be fair :tongue:

GOG; Good Old Games :tongue::grin:

Anyway, glad to see GOG still going but.. I've promised myself I won't spend any more money on games for the time being.. so must.. not.. look.. at .. gog... website..

Just do what I do..... go there get the free game and leave and forget GOG exists till the next free game rinse and repeat...... :tongue:

I thought that was Epic.

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Really, it's amazing Google make so much money, because they are obviously pretty terrible at business. Decent at technology, but terrible at business. I guess they just were the people with the right piece of internet tech in the right place at the right time, and it doesn't matter how many other mistakes they make as long as they keep that stranglehold on search + ads.

It's kind of comforting actually, because they clearly jettisoned "don't be evil" a long time ago and want to be bastards like Facebook or early Microsoft, so if they're going to be like that I'm glad they're pretty crap at it.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: pbI got to play games like *and* get a refund afterwards? How not to love Stadia, really?
There's also a TAKEAWAY option to download your saves and (hopefully) use them in the versions purchased from steam etc. Won't always work (I don't have much hopes for Hitman 3 as it uses online sync and cross-platform is not supported), but Cyberpunk should work and many others as well. It's bittersweet as I liked Stadia but it is what it is.

Okay help me out here not being douchy why did you like a service where you have to pay to get the hardware pay to be a member then actually buy the game with craptastic prices

People didn't actually have to pay a monthly fee for Stadia; it's just Google's terrible marketing made it look like they did.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThe trailer is just 1 and a half minutes of "What the f*@k?"

I didn't find it so. What do you want, they should give you the plot?

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Quoting: ValckAll I can see is another missed opportunity for more inclusive terminology.

"Spring" seems fairly inclusive to me.

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Not sure it's my kind of game, but I like the art.

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Unfortunately, there is a catch. Their firmware update is only designed for Windows.

wtf. Imagine building a product targeted at a Linux PC and not even supporting firmware upgrades on it. The people who are building this aren't even thinking about the steam deck outside of gaming mode.

In that connection, this "Linux Vendor Firmware Service" Liam linked to seems kind of interesting . . . well, I mean, finding out much more about it would probably actually bore my socks off, but just taking a brief look at its existence and thinking about why that would be opened my eyes to some implications of how Linux, hardware vendors and firmware would have to interact.

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