Which is sad, because the 3070 and 2070 absolutely traded blows with the previous flagships.

The “4070” might’ve also had a chance if they hadn’t fk’ed around with the naming on most cards below the 4080.

I feel like you struggled with your phrasing. I’ll help.

“Blockchain is a scam.”

From the actual lawsuit documents (emphasis is mine):

Valve’s monopolization and attempted monopolization have the purpose and effect of fixing and inflating prices in the relevant market.

EDIT: Uh… Exactly what part are we downvoting here? All I did was quote the lawsuit.

That would seem to be price fixing by its very definition. (EDIT: Note that I’m not making any judgment on this class action. The reality of pricing on IsThereAnyDeal would suggest that there is no such rule that prices can’t be lower outside of Steam.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

manufacturers and retailers may conspire to sell at a common “retail” price; set a common minimum sales price, where sellers agree not to discount the sales price below the agreed-to minimum price

And the question is irrelevant. Other companies can still benefit from external price fixing.

Steam itself seemingly isn’t trying to have a monopoly.

But damned if there isn’t a massive, very-loud Internet contingent that desperately wants them to have that monopoly.

If your immediate trigger reaction is seething anger when someone says, “I got a good deal on a game from Epic”… maybe that’s not healthy. The “Lord Gaben” meme isn’t meant to be taken 100% literally.

Look at all those downvotes from people who took offense to this comment, and WANT Steam to have a monopoly.

Yes, corporations bad. But don’t forget: Steam is a corporation, too.

I Don’t Believe You dot gif.

“Fuck you… Unless I really like you. But extra fuck you if you run a non-PC gaming platform.”

I mean, why give GabeN our email addresses then?

You see, there’s the thing. Sony is not requiring any sort of launcher. It’s an account.

“But mah privacy!”

Again, no launcher. What exactly are they going to track? That you’re playing their game?

You really think GTA6 won’t have a single player component? And that it won’t require a Rockstar account/launcher?

Ok, cool.

Let’s revisit this when Rockstar gets universal adoration for GTA6, which will absolutely require a Rockstar account & launcher.

So that’s who that tool is that’s trying to convince me I need to hate another game every time I rot my brain on TikTok.

I don’t know how many times I’ve told that app I’m not interested in how much he hates Star Wars Outlaws.

Not only do you need an account with those other publishers, but you often need an entirely separate launcher.

This Sony thing is simply creating an account.

This is all just console wars bullshit. It’s stupid when it was Nintendo vs. Sega. It’s stupid when it’s Sony vs. Microsoft. And it’s stupid when it’s PC vs Console.

Grow the fuck up, you emotionally-stunted fucking manchildren.

Did they still find a way to blame their Western developers since they shed them all?

Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.

Then yoink all of that money.

For me, entirely the opposite.

I just bought the Lossless Scaling app on Steam for my RTX 3070. That shit is magic on the 144Hz 4K TV that my gaming PC is connected to. I play games exclusively with a gamepad, so I notice absolutely zero input latency.

I have fully drunk the frame gen Kool-Aid.

The PS5 Pro is a decent value compared to a PC. It’s just not an amazing value like the original PS5 was in 2020.

Take PCPP’s Entry Level AMD Gaming Build. Upgrade it to a 2TB NVME and a RX 6800 GPU. That’s $830. ⁨ https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/NtFfrH/entry-level-amd-gaming-build⁩

That’s pretty similar specs to the PS5 Pro (with a better Zen 3 CPU, but minus a gamepad).

That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.

There seems to be a TikTok campaign where certain people desperately want players to hate this game. I keep seeing this same skinny wispy-bearded dude over & over shitting on the game.

I keep seeing the videos, and what I watch just makes me say “It honestly doesn’t look bad to me.”

60fps PS5 games were only ever 60fps because they were really just PS4 games running on faster hardware.

Now that we’re finally getting games that aren’t cross-gen with the 10-year-old PS4, we’re back to 30fps-ville.

It’s funny, because as much as people here hate corporations and monopolies, they would seemingly kill their own mother if it meant Steam would be the only seller of PC games.

EDIT: As demonstrated by these angry downvote reactions…

Free To Play in 3… 2…

Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.

And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.

The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.

It is what it is.

That was an option on console for most of the generation so far: Performance Mode vs. Quality Mode. But that’s mostly because nearly every game released so far has been a hastily ported last-gen title. It feels like this gen has really just barely started.

Single-player console games being 30fps is not new by any stretch. That’s basically what consoles do. And they’ve managed pretty well with it so far. If you want to spend 2-3x more on a beefy PC, you can get all the frames you want. More power to you.

20 years ago… Skyrim, Fallout, The Last of Us 1, GTA4-5 on PS3/360 gen. 30fps.

10 years ago… God of War, Gears of War single-player, Fallout 4, The Last of Us 2 on PS4/XBoxOne gen. Also 30fps.

Luckily, this is about as much of a FPS as Skyrim.

Skyrim, too, was 30fps when it first released on PS3/360 back in 2011. None of this is new.

Both can be true.

I mean… 30fps has been the single-player console experience for as long as I can remember. (Except for the PS4/XboxOne-native games – seemingly this entire generation – which get 60fps on current gen.)

Yes, PC can do 60fps+ if your rig is beefy enough. Yay.

Console wars bullshit is insufferable. Even when PC is one of the consoles.

Unfortunately, on every launch, AMD looks at Nvidia’s price gouging and says, “Yeah that pricing looks good for us, too.”

“It’s only the 10th most played game on Steam. DeAD gAMe!!”