If I buy a used card from an individual, nVidia doesn’t get a penny. How is that complicated?

Ironic, seeing as how you don’t seem to have an inkling of a clue about how things work there.

13 years since Skyrim released. Game development simply doesn’t take that long.

The first one was literally a PC

Literally a Celeron 733MHz CPU with an nVidia GPU.

It was 100% mobile gaming that ushered in the age of microtransactions.

And the Chinese government is a direct shareholder in Tencent, and they have a government official on Tencent’s board of directors.

Reality isn’t as puppy dogs and rainbows as you seem to think it is.

True irony here.

And if you buy it used, nVidia doesn’t get any of that money.

Way better investment to buy their stock rather than one of their GPUs, IMO.

AMD hasn’t been truly competitive with nVidia in quite a long time.

Still using a 1080 Ti and I definitely have lots of reasons to upgrade, but I’m not willing to spread the cheeks that wide.

No, it’s a direct result of observing the market during those periods and seeing the lemmings beating down doors to pay 600-1000 dollars over MSRP. They realized the market is stupid and will bear the extra cost.

The 4090 basically never went for MSRP until Q4 2024

This had nothing to do with scalpers though. Just pure corporate greed.

Every PC in my house except for my hypervisor has an Asus motherboard. No thanks, I’ll continue using what I’ve used for two decades without issue, thanks.

I see you watched that AVGN video also…

It 100% is how it works. Read that EULA next time you install one of those games via the installer you downloaded from gog.

And unless you’re an idiot, it’s pretty nigh impossible to get caught in that honey trap.

An exclusive on Epic Games may as well just not even exist, as far as I’m concerned. Didn’t play Anno 1800 until it was finally released on Steam. Nice discount too.

Well before Starfield came out they said they couldn’t make TES6 yet because the technology didn’t exist

It’s being built on the SAME ENGINE as tes5 was built on. I think they were blowing smoke.

I never got the big deal with Skyrim

I’m guessing you never played it on PC.

I.e. no proof. Got it.

Wouldn’t hold my breath, they’re just as rabid about copyright as the US is.

150Mb/s, way different than 150MB/s…

Lol, we had 10-20MB/month packages with 3g…

Your lemmy name really should be “larper”

Steam was running in the background.

Many games that are DRM free on GOG are also DRM free on Steam.

I challenge you to download an offline installer from Steam for these DRM-free games they host.

Same here, playing Sins of a Solar Empire 2 with a buddy. We both got the popup.

Ubi actually makes some great games. Give Anno 1800 a shot.

Right now is literally the worst time to be alive

No, it really isn’t.

Ahh, so you don’t really know what you’re talking about.

Irony.

So all reviewing should be volunteer work, I guess.

These are not alternatives to modern browsers.

If not Mozilla or Google, what will you use for a browser?

You certainly seem to lack reading comprehension.

As soon as a company puts forth a superior search engine. We’re all waiting…

The obvious solution is to fire them all and replace them with AI.

It’s silly how the anti-AI hivemind will downvote you for simply informing them that you find AI useful.

Before you go spouting off the mountaintop, might want to make sure you know what you’re talking about. It’s clear that you have no clue.