The state of PC gaming 2020

shreddog

shreddog
Sees a review and decides to buy a game.
Googles it and find it on Epic Games. On sale even! Noise!
Downloads launcher. Login with 2 step verification. Verify account. Done!
Purchase title from Epic Games. Login to Paypal. 2 step verification, wait for sms. Verify. Approved! Sweet.
Downloads a bloated 80 gb game for hours. Fine!
Finally done with download. Time to play! .. NOT SO FAST! Huh?
.. Ubiplay launching in the background. Asks for admin access once, twice, three times.. no FOUR Times. Okey.. let's be done with it.
Ubiplay finished installing. Time to play! .. NOT SO FAST MF'ER!
Login needed to Ubisoft launcher. Starts searching for old password. 5 minutes later Found it! Logging in. You need to setup 2 step verification. :mad: Ok ok let's do this.
Installs Google authenticator on phone. Verify account, logging in! Yes Finally! Let's play!! .. NOT SO FAST MORON!
What now? Ubisoft downloader starting download/installation, 80 gb.. .... WHAT??!?
Ubisoft wants admin access, AGAIN???
Installing to Program files..?! NO!! Cancel installation. Argghhh!!!
Rage quits Ubilauncher and Epic fail launcher.
Notices new web page shortcut on the desktop for unlocking new skins for Fortnite. WHAT THE ACTUAL !"#!"¤!"
 

shreddog

shreddog
Jezzah said:
It's a sign of things to come....
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Hooplah

Hooplah
Steam has about 75 percent of the PC games we play connected to the Internet. Who owns Steam? Someone called Valve. Who are they? Should we worry?
 

shreddog

shreddog
Well I got it installed after calming my nerves and managing to focus again. And this time to the right drive too.
Thankfully didn't have to download it twice either as I initially thought.
 

askavir

askavir
... meanwhile, some other dude with a pirated copy of the same game, simply installs, double clicks the shortcut icon and starts playing immediately. No mandatory registration, no confirmation links, no authorizing devices, no personal data involved, etc.

Not wanting to promote piracy, but this reminds me of the time when people purchased 30$ DVDs to see a movie. They inserted the disc into the DVD player, then had to sit through various commercials, then menu animations, then to add insult to injury they had to watch a long, annoying video about how pirating movies was a crime... on the DVD they legally bought! Meanwhile, some other dude just next door downloaded the same movie from pirate bay, then double clicked the file icon and immediately started watching.
 

Revenant69

Revenant69
askavir said:
... meanwhile, some other dude with a pirated copy of the same game, simply installs, double clicks the shortcut icon and starts playing immediately. No mandatory registration, no confirmation links, no authorizing devices, no personal data involved, etc.

Not wanting to promote piracy, but this reminds me of the time when people purchased 30$ DVDs to see a movie. They inserted the disc into the DVD player, then had to sit through various commercials, then menu animations, then to add insult to injury they had to watch a long, annoying video about how pirating movies was a crime... on the DVD they legally bought! Meanwhile, some other dude just next door downloaded the same movie from pirate bay, then double clicked the file icon and immediately started watching.
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This^^
 
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