"but i dont know shit about software cracking etc."
I'd say so. It's a live service game.
As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be ...
For CPU intensive games that's mostly still a thing but why would you want to limit your performance around the price of a console? If you have the option to have more performance with a plethora of other use cases then take advantage and invest long term. You'll likely save more than the amount of the investment within a generation from such things as lower prices of games and no proprietary costs.
@Neonridr
Same. Still on a 2080ti, i9-9900k on water with 32GB RAM I built in mid 2019. Hasn't been a game that's come out that's given me a reason to even remotely consider. I'll upgrade in maybe two more years.
I really want a post-release documentary of the development process of this game from start to finish eventually, developer interviews and everything. Just to see if there was any human element in the studio that wasn't devoid of irrationality. Planetary exploration was such a painfully obvious terrible choice to design around with this engine and it's archaic limitations.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
It is a shame when the body outlives the mind.
Will never not be funny how much this game pisses off people that haven't played it.
I quite liked Magic Carpet growing up.
Also because of GOG, and their stance on DRM.
Never happening. Gabe isn't a fan of Microsoft on principle, namely their anti-consumer decision making as of the last decade, and Valve as a private company is majority owned by him. Even when Gabe steps down his son Gray has been under his father's tutelage for quite some time to eventually take over. Gabe seems determined to keep Valve under majority Newell family ownership. He owns the largest digital game storefront and actually likes gaming as a hobby and a job, he's in a mo...
Not so much empathizing, as it seems to be an objective acknowledgement of a potential motivation for someone to go to such lengths. Unity is backing a lot of people, whom stake a lot financially, into a corner.
Bethesda Softworks hasn't been a "PC developer" since Oblivion. They've half-assed ever since.
Sounds like general superhero fatigue.
@FoxQ
That argument has always been a weird one. Why would you purposefully handicap yourself to a budget of just $400 for a PC? Something that does more than just game with more freedom. Unlike consoles you have the ability to exceed a preconfigured performance ceiling if you so choose to. That's a benefit you shouldn't go out of your way to make as difficult as possible, present or especially future-tense.
You willingly chose to confine yourself to a closed-platform where options are dictated by a single company. You're in no position to complain about others on an open platform utilizing options for hardware they bought.
Are we pretending these sport games haven't been garbage for years now?
Your obsession with this thing borders on mental illness.
I really don't understand this move from a financial perspective. Whole thing seems counterintuitive to selling a product as much as possible. If you don't have the network reach that Steam or even GoG has why do this to yourself?