Ray tracing really is the future. Instead of doing a bunch of tricks to make things look good all lightning is just simulated using ray tracing.
I remember when metro exodus enhanced edition came out and they explained that when they remade the game for RTX only, they could remove a lot of workarounds like invisible lights. And actually just light the scenes with actual light from bulbs or the sun and it just looked great.
IMO we have to move someday to the newer technology. Whenever that’s today or not, I don’t know. But it really is the future. Historically it also isn’t unusual at all that someone had to get new hardware to play new games. It’s just that it was stagnated for a while.
Edit: pretty sure it was this video from digital foundry: https://youtu.be/NbpZCSf4_Yk?t=1376
I have an LCD near launch edition and is it really about brightness? I don’t want OLED because the LCD is dim (which it can be outside or in sunlight), but because the LCD is pretty mediocre or possibly even bad. The OLED is supposed to be pretty damn good colour wise. It’s also bigger which is nice.
You would have to get a credit card though.
I don’t have one and I don’t want one. A debit card is good enough for me and those are possible and common to get before you turn 18.
I also imagine it’s easier for kids to get their parents to enter their credit card details compared to an ID card without asking questions.
That possibly happened for the same reason it happened to steam a few years ago. Tom Scott explains it pretty well: https://youtu.be/dkSslseq9Y8
They could try doing something. I dunno maybe trading limits and/or time-outs combined with DMCA takedowns.
Maybe the cost of setting up casinos isn’t very high but it takes time to build up trust from consumers and get customers.
If they can shutdown the biggest casinos that are sponsoring YouTubers and competitions that’s at least a decent win.
Unfortunately denunvo is actually really good at accompanying its goal of entirely stopping pirates or at least delaying them for months.
Last I checked there are only a handful of crackers able to crack denunvo. 1 only likes football manager, 1 is a completely insane russian apologist, and iirc the other one is fairly sane but very inconsistent cracker.
Why would you ever buy the deluxe version of any game?