PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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Much of my PC gaming, back in the day, was "oh this looks like a good game. Runs like dogshit on my PC though. Maybe I'll wait until I get a better PC." [wait 10 years] "My ADHD has gone worse, I can't play all this stuff"
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Turns out that people like playing games that respect their time and aren't a glorified second job. Who knew.
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I am on a 6 year old computer playing 10 year old games. I don't see a need to upgrade anytime soon.
I do hate being in the never ending upgrade cycle but the 10 year old games are limited, at least the ones I like to play.
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Built a new killer rig last summer. Have spent 90% of my time with it playing HL1 mods.
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The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.
I don't follow crypto trends so I hadn't heard about this either.
I had to look up proof-of-stake, and for Ethereum apparently is required to stake 32 coins to operate a node. Another google search shows me a single Ethereum coin is just north of $2k USD. So someone mining Etherium today needs to have more than $64k if Etherium to even run a node now?!
No, not really, you can start staking with as many as you want, see pooled staking:
https://ethereum.org/en/staking/pools/Staking pools are a collaborative approach to allow many with smaller amounts of ETH to obtain the 32 ETH required to activate a set of validator keys
You earn rewards proportional to the amount you stake
You only need 32 ETH to stake if you want to solo stake / home stake and you don't pool resources with anyone else, see https://ethereum.org/en/staking/solo/
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I am on a 6 year old computer playing 10 year old games. I don't see a need to upgrade anytime soon.
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CS was paid, Dota and Fortnite had "early access" packs before being released. Yeah fortnite is the odd one out here with keeping early access stuff to seperate ganemode and still costing money, but was originally planned to transition to f2p.
Dota was always going to be f2p, and maybe you could buy the beta access, but I, like many others, never paid and just got invited. So I would not consider it to be a paid game going f2p
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Pay to play baby! Let's reinvent the banking system by doing the same exact shit.
Not really to be honest, the power is in the decentralization, permissionless and opensource nature of the system. You can't get that out of the traditional system
Of course not all networks are the same and there are always shit ones out there that compromise on those tenets, but if you do your due dilligence, you will see there is value in some of them
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Built a new killer rig last summer. Have spent 90% of my time with it playing HL1 mods.
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I'm playing a new old game, because i'm playing the Suikoden Remaster. There for I have beaten the system by simultaniously playing both an 20+ year old game and a brand new game thats a few weeks old.
I got a steam deck on the way and I'm so stoked to use it for Suikoden. I hope they remaster number three!
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Turns out that people like playing games that respect their time and aren't a glorified second job. Who knew.
Tell that to everyone playing games like path of exile (which i admittedly have also played too much of in the past).
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New games just don't have a 'punch' to it anymore. They are not not game breaking anymore.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with old games either. They are the same as they were, which is why reboots and remakes are so popular.
I want to agree but some games are really well done. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a good example.
However
I feel like many people are so focused on graphics and looks, like raytracing for example, that gameplay/story has become less important? Sucks but it is what it is I guess..
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besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that the younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start to favor single player games more.
My personal hypothesis is that everyone likes online multiplayer initially because it's pretty cool, then you get bored it when you realise playing with angry randos is no fun. It's not that a younger generation prefers online multiplayer, it's that they haven't got sick of it yet!
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Recently upgraded to a 7800x3D, 64GB DDR5, and a 4070... which I've been using to get back into modded Minecraft recently.
Tbf, the larger modpacks can be pretty resource intensive.
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I want to agree but some games are really well done. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a good example.
However
I feel like many people are so focused on graphics and looks, like raytracing for example, that gameplay/story has become less important? Sucks but it is what it is I guess..
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I bet WoW runs like a dream on that machine
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I bet WoW runs like a dream on that machine
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Tell that to everyone playing games like path of exile (which i admittedly have also played too much of in the past).
PoE, Factorio, etc
I seem to like games that require spreadsheets
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I haven't tried it! That would be like giving a reformed crack addict a hit off the pipe.
No way can I ever even consider going back to that game.If it makes you feel better, it will never be the same as it was when you first played. Every time there is a xpac that looks interesting I have tried and failed to get that feeling back. It devolves very quickly into feeling like a job again.
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Recently upgraded to a 7800x3D, 64GB DDR5, and a 4070... which I've been using to get back into modded Minecraft recently.
Same machine... The framerates I'm getting in Rimworld are off the charts.
