Pedestrian this meme is shared a lot becuase it appeals to the feelings of the so called "OG Fans" not because its true
And your statement is correct because?..
Meme is a meme alright, but there are lots of write-ups with a similar message, and for a reason. I will provide but one of them, as it also has a huge comment section for everyone who really wants to get into all the pros and cons or whatever: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Overall I think the scene in question has rather solid grounds in reality, with most parts being true.
Kaper Sad truth is even physicals are soon to be gone in the gaming industry as ssd technology becomes better and can hold more space in a small form factor, and the gaming industry figures out how to not make every new release over 100gb, it won't be long until physical games are a thing of the past.
As a tech geek, I disagree. There are simply no ways to make games that use modern tech to weight less. Just because you really cannot compress those ultra-HD textures anyhow harder.
And, truth be told, based on what I see by actually diving into the files and code of the various Unreal Engine/Unity based games, most developers don't even try to compress things. Some would argue that less compression will improve loading times and whatnot, but I'd say that is just an excuse and most people just do not care if your game will weight 40-100 GBs, since loading times improvement without compression is abysmal. Not even mentioning that a lot of games have multitudes of other issues they should fix first, before caring about improving loading times via less compression, ugh...
Modern video gaming - and not only video gaming - is rather awful tech-wise. Indy games that look like 16-bit games somehow manage to have FPS drops and stuff. Like, what the hell. Sega Mega Drive didn't have FPS drops. Modern 16 bit Unity-based indies have. Go figure. A lot of people today just don't know how to optimize things and write their code properly, since modern tech do not have much restrictions and the entry level to use Unity/UE is extremely low. Of course those people won't know how to compress games properly. They just do not care, since the average HDD nowadays starts at 2-4 TBs. So what if the game weights 100 GBs, you have space to fit 20-40 of those.
Kaper It really sucks as game piracy is becoming harder by the day also with anti piracy companies outright hiring the same pirates who crack game software so even teams who fight to own software are disappearing slowly by the day and with companies such as Nintendo coming down on emulators like hawks, it does not look good for game preservation whatsoever.
I'd argue with this point too. Piracy is doing just fine. Hell, people sometimes reverse-engineer online-only games or hack games with various online features. Like, The Crew is about to get released. It's monstrous task, but it's pretty much has been pulled of, which says a thing or two.
And that's only talking about hard cases which use online stuff or, I don't know, Denuvo. And let's be honest here: only AAA slop uses those. Normale games do not have money for Denuvo, and of course they do not have money to upkeep the servers for online protection. You know what that means? That means 90% of games can be hacked simply by adding Steam emulator into their files. That is if even need to be hacked, since there's GOG, you know. If anything, I'd rather argue piracy is kind of dead in the hacker-cracker sense of the word, because you do not need to do that for the most part anymore - everything is conveniently laid out for your pleasures. But in the share-games-around-for-free sense of the word, piracy is as good as ever.
Nintendo cracks on an emulator? So what? With GitHub any closed project immediately gets 10 forks. Nintendo digs its own grave with those crackdowns.
And no matter how many sites they close, new ones keep popping up. EmuParadise is dead? Tough luck, but now we have CDRomance. The king is dead - long live the king.
There are more than enough sites out there, which I won't name for obvious reasons, but overall, I'd say piracy's fine.
