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Steam banning NFTs dealt massive damage to their momentum lmao

Praise be onto Gaben, our lord and savior

“AAA+”
I’m out

The future is horrible.

The cryptobros have barely any influence on games anymore. The crown for boogeyman of gaming has passed on to AI. A couple clearly bought-out articles aren't going to change that.

Haven't met a single crypto person who was someone you'd introduce to your parents

I've abandoned all my favourite IPs. And games. And soon platforms.

"Innovation" has been so anti-consumer for so long that I now view any word associated with it as a red flag.

The same crypto bros who slid into our dm's to warn us that "this is our last chance to learn from their expertise for free!" have moved on to Ai. It's just the latest snake-oil con.

I miss the times when the idea behind games was:
1) make a game people will want to play
2) profit
Instead of
1) make a get rich quick scheme / storefront
2) attach a mediocre at best game as an interface
3) hope idiots will fall for it

The future of gaming feels pretty bleak across the board. It now takes 7+ years to develop a AAA game. It’s now an industry standard to release an incomplete and buggy game. Game publishers want to hike up the price or sell you a live service product. And let’s not forget the icing on the cake, your digital games can be removed or taken down never to be played again. Am I missing anything?

Anytime I hear/read "blockchain" my brain automatically replaces it with "AIDS riddled useless garbage" which is a great feature of my brain.

It's so bright I'm gonna need to wear some DLC sunglasses 😎

I'm so happy they can't touch my physical media. Makes me really happy I have it. GOTHIC 3 IS LIT!!!!

"There's no stopping the train now that it's left the station..."
'Xept the tracks are not there. Trainwreck inbound.

Tencent: the reason why I hate Epic Games. Any connection to CCP = no. They have been harassing our fishermen so I hate anything related to the CCP

The most insecure platform, hosts the NFT games, that are complete crap, while saying "they don't host crap games".
Anyone else see the irony in this?

At this point, my backlog is full of so many games (about 30 years worth), that Im fine with only a couple quality releases per year. I gave up caring years ago, about the state of modern gaming. Let's just watch it burn.

Glad I saved all my old consoles.
Nes, ps1,2,3,4, Xbox, Xbox 360.

Its so goddamn ironic that Tim Sweeney claimed to be fighting for indie developers and acting like he was a force for good in the gaming industry while painting Valve as tyrants and dictators but every single action from Epic has been the polar opposite of what Tim claims. Valve could have made a killing off of blockchain games but they choose the consumer first, Valve could make exclusivity deals with publishers to further iron their grip in the gaming landscape but they don't. It is all just so funny to me when I think about it.

They typo'd, they meant they will have quantity standards.