My plan was to buy it on release, but the moment I read they would release clans as DLC the game was dead to me.

I’ll check back in a year or two. Maybe then when everything is in one package.

That’s all beyond my abilities :)

My main problem was just a printer. I did find a driver for Mint, and it worked flawlessly for a few days. And suddenly it stoped printing again. I tried to configure the driver, I uninstalled and reinstalled, it just does not work anymore. Getting help is difficult online because everyone seems to think much knowledge is a given, and the hints got more and more complicated until I just had no idea what I was doing. Reading up on the commands used got more and more overwhelming and intimidating, so I, at some point, just gave up. Same with gaming, if a game runs it’s absolutely fine, but when it does not it’s tough to find easy to understand documentation how to fix it.

I won’t give up, but I reinstalled Windows 11 on my main PC again. Mint runs on my laptop that I use occasionally. Linux has come a long way, and it’s amazing how the usability improved over the years, but, at least for me, it’s not quite there yet. But until Windows 12 comes out I’m pretty sure it will improve much further, until then Win11 has to do. My first step is taken.

Thank god I’m not the only one. I was convinced it was me! i used Mint for two months, and when everything works it’s good, but the second you encounter a problem it becomes a nightmare.

1 was advertised as a spiritual successor of System Shock 2, but it only got the atmosphere right. It was just another shooter which disappointed me. 2 was the same more or less. 3 had a fascinating story, but it was still just a shooter. Maybe 4th time will become what I crave for, another immersive sim!

Like? I love it!!

Tenet. I got the story the first time, but there are so many little details in it…

I checked recommended builds in gaming magazines, compared them over two months, swapped parts until I was pretty sure it fit my needs. I posted it here for a last sanity check then, and swapped out the PSU after that. Everything else was fine.

Also read tests regularly, and more than once for the same parts. There are some great testing sites out there.

For me the time I took paid off, in the end the PC was perfectly tailored to my needs.

They make The Crew unplayable in a month, without any chance to ever play it again.

And they expect me to pay 70 € for this? What?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, oh, no, you won’t!

Don’t forget Soldier of Fortune 2 where they replaced all humans with robots and invented a whole new backstory.

Humans created robots, robots staged an uprising, killed all humans. Robots took over the lifes of humans because that was all they knew. That’s why there were robot druglords, robot hobos, robot police men, robot scientists, and so on.

This is not a joke.

Be careful what you wish for…

One good thing that came out of this mess was that I discovered Gamer’s Nexus, information packed and down to earth. I’d rather have 20 minutes of information than 5 minutes plus 15 minutes showmanship.

I know what you mean, but you still don’t own the game, you have permission to play it, at least as long as the platform lets you or it closes. For now it’s all good, but when the time comes people will loose accounts worth thousands of bucks.

You want to really own your game, not just a license, buy on gog. Not on Steam, not on Epic, not on uplay and whatever else.

Why is everyone so pissed at Ubisoft, they just say what’s practise for years now! And sometimes counter Ubisoft by quoting Gabe Newell, what the fuck? He made not owning games popular!

I bought it on gog, yay for DRM free purchases.

This is exactly what I’m doing. Games still look great, they run great, and chances are there are a bunch of quality of life mod improvements.

Days gone released on gog not long ago, the first thing I got was the mod for silencers, what a bullshit idea to only use it for five shots and then it’s gone.

And I forgot: I never buy a GaaS! They will shut down The Crew soon, a game I play on a regular basis and one of the most relaxing titles ever made. I don’t care how great a game might be, you won’t get any money out of me ever again dear companies.

Don’t harass Ubisoft. /s

Ignore him.

Forgive me, but if there ever was a niche scenario this is it.

So you only buy a license? Like on Steam, Epic, and all the others? Shocking.

I think modern gamers are comfortable with this, they just haven’t realised it yet.

Or they buy on gog. Then they really have ownership.

I got the game for free, and I’ve been playing it since every three months for a few days, just driving around. I bought the sequel, but it sucked.

I never used the multiplayer component, I treated it like a single player game. And now it’s going to vanish? This whole world? They can’t be serious. This isn’t a multiplayer only title, it’s single player with an optional mp stacked upon it. At least put an offline patch out… Assholes!

But that’s the crux with only buying licenses. Or games with always online requirements. I hope fans find a way to crack the online code!!

Could be worse. Could be Paklet poetry.