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elementary my dear baxter
I know there was a crash in the 80's but that's nothing to the dystopian horror show things are at now.
I am a Sims addict. I have a preposterous, obscene playtime logged on the Sims 4. It's flawed as shit and always has been but I've never in my life had a richer or more fulfilling character creator and it would arguably be my desert island game.
But the game has forced updates. You can't launch the game unless it is updated and if EA's servers aren't working, like I don't know, right now, then it is a 100% Get Fucked Idiot We Took Your Money situation where you can't enjoy the property you paid possibly hundreds of dollars for (I love Sims but it is disgusting).
I was able to keep a stable build for the game for around 2 years by not letting Origin update and running the game in offline mode, but one day, out of the blue, I am forced, 100% FORCED against my will to update to the EA app to play the game at all, and now I'm once again stuck with this ENDLESS cycle of updates and mod breakage and having my goddamn game locked out for me when it is absolutely 100% unnecessary.
You should not be forced to update a game, any game, to launch it. It's one thing if it's an online only game and you need all the players to be synched to the same version. But to do it in a game that can be played offline sans some online features is criminal. It should actually be illegal, but it's not, because we live in a capitalist shitshow nightmare and this whole death by a thousand cuts method of bleeding us dry these scumbags employ makes it so that the gaming populace never properly revolts and burns it all to the ground like they should.
I've been a video gamer for well over 30 years. I'm old, and while individual games are amazing, the industry itself is hands down the worst it has EVER been. We honestly need another crash.
I am a Sims addict. I have a preposterous, obscene playtime logged on the Sims 4. It's flawed as shit and always has been but I've never in my life had a richer or more fulfilling character creator and it would arguably be my desert island game.
But the game has forced updates. You can't launch the game unless it is updated and if EA's servers aren't working, like I don't know, right now, then it is a 100% Get Fucked Idiot We Took Your Money situation where you can't enjoy the property you paid possibly hundreds of dollars for (I love Sims but it is disgusting).
I was able to keep a stable build for the game for around 2 years by not letting Origin update and running the game in offline mode, but one day, out of the blue, I am forced, 100% FORCED against my will to update to the EA app to play the game at all, and now I'm once again stuck with this ENDLESS cycle of updates and mod breakage and having my goddamn game locked out for me when it is absolutely 100% unnecessary.
You should not be forced to update a game, any game, to launch it. It's one thing if it's an online only game and you need all the players to be synched to the same version. But to do it in a game that can be played offline sans some online features is criminal. It should actually be illegal, but it's not, because we live in a capitalist shitshow nightmare and this whole death by a thousand cuts method of bleeding us dry these scumbags employ makes it so that the gaming populace never properly revolts and burns it all to the ground like they should.
I've been a video gamer for well over 30 years. I'm old, and while individual games are amazing, the industry itself is hands down the worst it has EVER been. We honestly need another crash.