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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

In the end, blind people will say that Nvidia is winning because of brand power and mindshare. The reality is Radeon is simply full of garbage leadsership and marketing. Most of the higher ups should be fired and I hope they hire competent people next generation. Radeon could have pulled a Ryzen but instead they pulled a xbox.

Feels like every other than a few goes through this "fuck you" phase when it comes to pc gaming. EA, Cuckbisoft, Activision, Microsoft, etc. It happens until it comes a point where the shit they have been throwing catches up with them and comes back to their faces. And now it feels like that it's Cucknoys turn. They could have had a really good thing going just leaving pc gamers alone. But no, lets do this PSN nonsense. Let me guess, eventually they gonna come out with their own launcher that will integrate PS+ benefits for pc gamers. So tired of all this nonsense. Just give us good games so we can play them instead of adding all sorts of bs to them.

I hope AMD clean house for their GPU side, because aty this point they need to get out of the Xbox 1 phase and get heavily into their Ryzen game. 

Yeah, it still blows my mind how all those companies adopt the same "fuck you, I do what I want" mentality, every single time they approach PC. I think execs and those calling the shots/marketing just see PC as a console, or something that doesn't deserve to be respected, because it's always the same song and dance with them (treat the customer like shit, customer leaves, "pls dun go, I'll do slightly better", ppl keep leaving, company eventually caves in after years of abusing their userbase). 

See Sony, MS and EG have all by far had their biggest wake-up calls. MS got theirs with X1 reveal, and their multiple failed attempts at swooning PC gamers. They had to spend years slowly building up trust with PC gamers, but now they've reached a point where they know they can't be like Steam, so it's now just Gamepass all the way with a still shitty Xbox App, but at least my Xbox account is a part of my OS, and so far they haven't done anything to dick around with their systems, so my sign-ins for any Xbox game is default automatic, and they don't enforce any shitty overlays over Steam's.

EG got theirs when people stood up and called Timmy out for what he was trying to do, bribe his way back into an open platform he willingly left and proceeded to insult for yrs on end, and then also had the balls to say "it won't be the customer that decides the outcome of this war, but the devs", which came off as completely tone fucking deaf as you could possibly get, and it told the planet that no, he did not in fact learn a single god damn thing from his time with MS/Xbox (He still views PC as a platform to fuck around with, and not to respect, I mean look at how he treats the new gen gamer kids with V-bucks and Fortnitifying the shit out of every collab, making Fortnite lose more of it's self identity with each collab they do). 

Sony got theirs recently thanks to the HD2 situation, and it took them a few days of shitting bricks in their office, but they did finally respond. They claimed they "heard" us, and claimed they weren't going to push crap, but it turns out that was honeyed words to get people to lower down the pitchforks and usher people back into the stadium. Now they're just using Steam as if it was their platform, where they get to just rip all the other games that were previously on there, slapping "remasters" onto the storefront with markup pricing, and all while locking out people like me, who use the god damn platform to buy my games on...

I just find it absurd as hell, that a publisher can just come on by and fuck around on this level and for Valve to just sit there and not say "hey, you're actually treating my customers like shit, taking them for a wild ride to nowhere and locking them off on my platform", is what gets me gobsmacked the most. The more this keeps happening with publisher after publisher, the more Valve will eventually have to start addressing the issues of publishers coming in and treating customers like shit (it's already happening on a dev team level on Steam forums, where devs are abusing moderator power and silencing criticism, or from saying anything they don't like). 

Sony is absolutely gonna come out with their own client/launcher, that I can guarantee you. The fact they are slapping in their PSN enforcement, coupled with PSN overlay and PSN trophies are systems that will eventually result in a client being brought forward to the market. I can easily see Sony taking a page out of Ubisoft's book, and just going "well I wanna leech off steam, but I want 100% of my sales on my own platform, so I guess I'll use both and piss ppl off on Steam enough to move to my own client?". 

The thing is, Ubisoft has done that for a number of yrs now, to a point where I just stopped buying games from them. My last game was Origins, and I haven't looked back since. No matter how deeply discounted Ubi's games are on Steam, I know I'll have to deal with Denuvo+2-3 layers of DRM and shitty optimisation, MT's and all that crap, but it's their client I absolutely do not want to deal with, so that's their loss, not mine. If Sony wants to copy Ubisoft, they are not going to win ppl like me over, I mean, they've already soft locked me out on Steam of all places, so it's not like I could buy their games from now on anyway?. 

Like all I want from them is for good PC ports, no account registration bs, and for actual good prices, not this "here's my old game from 5yrs ago, pls pay me £60", because that's going to put me off buying their games. Even if it's a game like Spider-Man 2, I ain't paying top dollar for a 1.3yr old game, that's not how this works Sony, that's not how any of this works, time changes everything, including value and prices (Publishers pitched for years that digital games would lead to cheaper prices, meaning that was all a lie as well).