You don't seem to get the game industry has been stealing PC games since 1997 with ultima online.
Buying any client-server game or piece of software means you're getting robbed.
Almost every game in the 90's had the ability to host locally, Doom, duke 3d, descent, quake 1+2+3, we used IPX emlulators like kali/kahn to play games like warcraft 2 over the internet.
So you need to go back further buddy, from 1992 to roughly 2004, all games had dedicated server functionality until the game industry realized the public was stupid with the rise of utlima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and wow, which lead to steam.
Steam is basically corporately hacked software, why would you need to login to someones remote PC at valves HQ to play a game?
Up until 2004, every PC game had dedicated server functionality built into it. Just go look at the FPS released from 1995 to 2004 roughly.
This stopped because the public bought into the MMO scam o the late 90's, mmo's were just rebranded PC RPG's to get the public to take up corporately hacked software.
So no.
GTA 4, fallout 3, battlefield BC and LEft 4 dead 2 are POST STEAM and POST MMO games, after they'd figured out you were too stupid to realize you were being robbed and were oblivious.
So go back to quake 3 engine based games and earlier PC games you'll notice they were complete DRM free pieces of software. You don't get the STEAM is unnatural corproate malware that was forced into half-life 2 because of what they learned about the public from 1997's ultima online.
UO was what spawned the great game theft of the last 20 years.
To have games that can be shut down remotely and who's servers can go offline means youre getting fraudulently coded software.
Note that this isn't a conspiracy, but just each game company individually following its incentives toward extractive business models (and occasionally openly bragging about it and encouraging others to do the same). (Not saying you claimed that, but it's easy to read your post as conspiracy theory rather than accusations of 'mere' ethical bankruptcy.)
> Not saying you claimed that, but it's easy to read your post as conspiracy theory
Actually, they seem to have a conspiracy theory, that software companies are secretly... doing the things that they're openly and obviously doing.
In other news, [the democratic and republican parties] have always hated [democracy]'s power to [pass laws that harm campaign contributors]. Anyone who has any idea of the history of [the US] and isn't a retard, knows [a bipartisan system] has been in the cards for a long time going back to pre [mass-media] days when [candidates] were trying to screw other [candidates].
It is, since Silicon valley and big media companies have always hated the PC's power to copy files. Anyone who has any idea of the history of silicon valley and isn't a retard, knows this has been in the cards for a long time going back to pre internet days when businesses were trying to screw other businesses.
> Because the public is so stupid they can operate in broad daylight. You don't seem to get that the vast majority of the population is computer illiterate.
No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one.
> why would you go from having quake 3 with level editing, mods, free maps skins, etc, in big budget AAA games, to not getting that, and having the game client server locked to company PC's like diablo 3 and overwatch?
I wouldn't, partly because I'm not a moron, but mostly because I prefer Warcraft 3; the last good FPS[0] I played was Wolfenstein.
0: unless you completely ignore the "shooting" part and count minetest.
You don't seem to get the game industry has been stealing PC games since 1997 with ultima online.
Buying any client-server game or piece of software means you're getting robbed.
Almost every game in the 90's had the ability to host locally, Doom, duke 3d, descent, quake 1+2+3, we used IPX emlulators like kali/kahn to play games like warcraft 2 over the internet.
So you need to go back further buddy, from 1992 to roughly 2004, all games had dedicated server functionality until the game industry realized the public was stupid with the rise of utlima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and wow, which lead to steam.
Steam is basically corporately hacked software, why would you need to login to someones remote PC at valves HQ to play a game?
Up until 2004, every PC game had dedicated server functionality built into it. Just go look at the FPS released from 1995 to 2004 roughly.
This stopped because the public bought into the MMO scam o the late 90's, mmo's were just rebranded PC RPG's to get the public to take up corporately hacked software.
So no.
GTA 4, fallout 3, battlefield BC and LEft 4 dead 2 are POST STEAM and POST MMO games, after they'd figured out you were too stupid to realize you were being robbed and were oblivious.
So go back to quake 3 engine based games and earlier PC games you'll notice they were complete DRM free pieces of software. You don't get the STEAM is unnatural corproate malware that was forced into half-life 2 because of what they learned about the public from 1997's ultima online.
UO was what spawned the great game theft of the last 20 years.
To have games that can be shut down remotely and who's servers can go offline means youre getting fraudulently coded software.