Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive

kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  build a steam library that you’ll have 20 years from now

  How do you know that Steam will be around in 20 years? Use GOG instead, since the DRM-free game installers will outlive Steam :)

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How do you know that Steam will be around in 20 years?

    Use GOG instead, since the DRM-free game installers will outlive Steam :)

    How do you know Windows will keep compatibility in 20 years? Valve money partially goes into Proton/WINE development and an evolution of that will absolutely be around in 20 years, just WINE was around 20 years ago already. CD Project doesn’t put any GOG/Cyberpunk money into breaking the Windows monopoly. (Also plenty of titles on Steam come without DRM because DRM is optional.)

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      plenty of titles on Steam come without DRM because DRM is optional

      That’s true - for the DRM-free Steam games, you can just keep a separate backup copy of the game files. They usually run fine without Steam installed.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My GOG games run great on wine, it just takes a bit more work to install them. Wine has better support for early windows games than windows does now.

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s kinda rich to plug Steam, where you also don’t own your games.

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well for Steam at least the library is independent of the hardware

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• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And something that can run PS3, PS2 and PS1 games!

  I’m sorely disappointed that none of that fancy AI-powered Sony upscaling can be put to use to any of those old games.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Replace the 3060 with an equally-priced AMD card and you’ll actually get something decent for your money. Nvidia is horrible at these “lower” price points.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve had the same monitor, keyboard and mouse for an easy 10;

  I guess it depends on frequency of use, but I’ve never had a mouse last ten years.

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