It was, but they lost their jobs to AI automation.

Hopefully Capcom will put more of their games to G.O.G, they’ve already added some of their classics there.

Honestly with how hyper-monetized the triple-a games have become I’ve shifted my focus more and more to similar games from smaller and less established studios.

Like at this point I would be more hyped in some small team doing spiritual sequel to something like morrowing or oblivion that the actual TES VI.

Also many studios like Bethesda, ID and Blizzards are essentially ships of theseus meaning most key people have either left or made to effectively sabotage their own games .

They’re actually not just licenses. When you download a game from steam you get the game data. You can back up this gamedata if you wish. Sure it will have steam DRM but thats something on can get around one way or another.

This is the power of open platform like PC

Games on GOG come with offline installer that can be used to install the most reacent version.

But you’re right, many games do require day 1 patches or even game data to be dowloaded but that makes these worse / lower in quality for many.

As a technology DLSS5 feels a lot like Nvidia RTX remix where game can be modded to look very different from how it was originally intentended to look. If it can be achieved with local hardware it’s fine, if it needs internet connection, subscription and huge data-center then not so much.

Meant to say hijacked but I guess hacked is close enough.

Its unfortunate how big tech has hacked the word AI to mostly mean these LLM based chatbots or agents.

Even when LLMs are like tiny subset of AI technologies out there.

I don’t pre-order games nor do I really buy any games new.

I mean why should I when I can buy complete version of the game for like 10-20 bucks 1-3 years later. Honestly I’ve simply discarded the idea of being consumer and shifted to thinking myself as customer instead. Its not my job to support the developers and keep their studios afloat its their job by making good games that are actually worth their price tag.

I already have backlog of games that would take years clear thanks to steam sales, playstation plus and all sorts of bundle offers. I am in no hurry to buy new games and I can easily wait for the developers to actually finish the game and buy the GOTY/Ultimate/Definite edition that includes most if not all the expansions and dlc for a discounted price.

As for free 2 play and live service games I simply don’t have the time and interest to play those. If I ever make an exception to this then I’ll be using only default skins/cosmetics, no gatcha and ignoring the battle pass completely.