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I don’t blame them, the tactics used are manipulative by design and should be regulated further.

Even ignoring the market research, its an easy observation. Most gamers buy a few or less games per year. Them games usually being the big AAA ones marketed to them.

Consoles are brought up a lot because that is what is most popular with the average gamer, I mentioned it’s not exclusive to console. PC has however always had more success with indies and has less of that type of customer, though that seems to be shifting a bit recently with the PC market overtaking consoles.

It’s not tribalism to merely point things out about different segments. Not everything someone says is an attack.

I also never said

“console gamers will buy anything they’re told to”

I dont know why we are fabricating quotes or falsely insinuating.

Have you been personally affected by this? I didnt mean to offend you.

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Yes. You did. We weren’t discussing stores advertising, but the effects.

You missed the context.

There’s no issue with it, they are obviously going to take money to play a game, that’s on their own morals to decide.

But a lot of people just blindly buy whatever is shown to them, its why standards for games in the mainstream market has fallen off a cliff over the last 15 years. We have people buying $30 skins on the regular…

I have them disabled too, but even if you just open Steam, there will be an ad on the store page.

Youre right, its a game people are ‘told’ to buy, rather than a recommendation. The first thing they see when they start up their console will be an ad for it.

Consoles have always had that market of just buying a few big games a year, they never broke into the indie scene very well.

But PC isnt immune to it, Steam shows ads for launches on startup and both platforms suffer from social media influence. The biggest seller of games has to be Twitch. Get a bunch of streamers playing your shitty game and youll sell loads of copies.

Israel cares because USA cares and they want to keep their daddy happy. With the support of USA, Israel can keep slaughtering innocents as much as they like. Israel would love to have nukes themselves, they want to be a military world power (you know, so they can keep committing crimes against humanity).

Marketing for his new game, thats all.

Which AI fuckhead got into Valve HQ

He can ask ChatGPT to help put the fire out

Israel will bully whoever they can, they are not scared because they always have big daddy USA to run back to.

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Yea it was a bit of a preach, I’ll admit.

I just think people should want higher standards, hardware is so powerful now, there’s no excuse for every game not to be targeting 120fps.

Yeah, obviously we shouldn’t ban them, just like we shouldn’t be requiring ID to visit websites or whatever.

Well framerate is defined by frametime. Though the average displayed framerate differs if the frametimes are not consistent.

What I am talking about with “smoothness” here is higher framerate, I am used to 120fps on most games, I normally lock my fps to that. You may not notice it going up, but you notice it a lot when going back down to 60.

Everyone has different standards and preferences, I’d rather not play any fast shooter at 60fps.

It’s fine, it’s always the case with opinions like this :D Downvoting will always be used as a disagree button, that’s never going to change.

Its an opinion, I am used to a smooth experience, I play some fast paced games at 60 on my Steam Deck, its passable, but I’d obviously rather be having it run silky smooth on my PC.

If you have never really played games at higher than 30/60, then it’s impossible to understand.

Its definitely something you get used to, I really dont enjoy low framerate anymore. If I forced myself to play it for hours and hours, maybe I would eventually be able to put up with it again. I can stomach 60 in most games. But ever since I’ve had access to high framerates, 30 and 60 just dont cut it for fast moving games.