Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
Thanks. My dad and I decided to actually evacuate with the mandatory evacuation we got on Monday and headed to my aunts in Tennessee. On the bright note it hit the Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda area, to the south of me, like Charlie did and most of the issues my area seemed to have was some power outtages and minor flooding with downed trees or branches. My home was fine just downed branches and no damage.



I hope everything with you is fine and there's not much damage or none at all.
Yay! That's great. Glad to hear it

Re: Stadia stuff - Entirely streamed games are a very bad way for gaming to go. I will rejoice every time something so asinine fails, and will rue the day that it ever succeeds. Digital options for buying are already bad enough, what with them being able to remove those games from their catalogue even after you've purchased it, such that if you ever lose the data or have it corrupted, then you lose what you purchased. The last thing we need is a system where you can't even actively play what you want to play month to month. And like hell we need yet another subscription service for yet another leg of entertainment wherein companies will fight over rights to stream games both old and new, and we'll have to get what all comes after what actually succeeds as the proof of concept success. (not too mention the crackdown that would ensue on emulation should game streaming service reactivate rights to old titles)

Physical copies of media are best, especially for games where replay value is high. I still have games that are from the 80s and 90s in physical copy, and they still work. They're still mine. They're still plug and play.

We should own and should want to own the entertainment we buy, especially games. We shouldn't devalue our entertainment, especially by letting it be over regulated and owned only by the companies that make it. We shouldn't ever let it be reduced to merely purchasing the right to play. That's stupid and foolhardy. It's like paying to be miserable.

Even a stand alone MMO which asks exactly that of us is a better deal for the consumer. It's only one game, after all, but it's also a social apparatus that we ourselves can make money off of (see streamers/youtubers/artists/musicians etc). Gating our gaming libraries behind subscription and the internet as a whole though, as said before, is just an entirely awful concept.