It’s kinda rich to plug Steam, where you also don’t own your games.
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At $700 you could build a pretty decent PC that would last a lot longer, and build a steam library that you’ll have 20 years from now.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 months ago
Well for Steam at least the library is independent of the hardware
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 months 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.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months 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.
dan@upvote.au 2 months 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 :)
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.)
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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.