Why do Gamers raging about stuff that doesn’t even affect them deserve my empathy.
And if we’re going to try and turn this into racism, let’s ignore the PCMR gang (who rally behind a literal Aryan “master race” meme) trying to act offended about Subsaharan Africa losing access to a videogame. Layers of irony. When in reality they’re mad about having to sign up for a “console account”.
You geniuses are all continuing to downvote a deleted post.
Nice to see you’re all focusing on content and not just “downvote everything out of the guy not on the rage train”.
60 to 160 USD per year
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that people who gobble up every bit of ragebait their favorite “influencers” dish out would also use the sponsored overpriced VPN of choice. It’s not that hard to find legit VPNs for around $25/yr. It’s not just NordVPN out there.
And the “fuck you” fee for Americans/Canadians/Brits? It’s called regional pricing. Note how places like Russia / Ukraine / South Asia can get $60 games for the equivalent of twenty bucks.
https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/
(Also, if $25 is truly 10% the value of their house and they’re spending that much on videogames, there are plenty other issues to be worrying about).
Paid VPNs are dirt cheap worldwide. You’re all absolutely being crybabies. If you can already afford a PC capable of playing HD2, you can afford a few bucks a year for a reputable VPN.
But hey, it’s okay. In a couple days, the TikTok/YouTube influencers will find the next shiny piece of inconsequential PC gamer ragebait, and you’ll all move onto that.
Rage on, sister.
Hey, congrats! Sounds like you’ve already figured out the solution to this “problem”.
I notice that you specifically worded your comment to not address whether PSN is blocked where you are.
I’ll assume it definitely is blocked where you are, and you’re not just another PCMR-bro who thinks signing up for a PSN account will make people think they’re a “console gamer”.
Overlay it on that Steam active user map, so we can count all 8 people who’ll need to fire up that VPN they use for literally everything they already do online.
Maybe someday they’ll invent VPNs in those places.
Since definitely nobody has ever played a PlayStation in those countries. Never ever.
/Sarcasm.
(The absolute GLEE coming out of people who aren’t even remotely affected by the PSN requirement really says a lot about how ragebait has broken people’s brains)
It’s a little-known fact that Debian was actually named after 90s singer Debbie Gibson & Beverly Hills 90210 star Ian Ziering.
From that same article:
In good times, profit margins are impossibly high. Nvidia, perhaps the world’s most advanced designer of AI chips, last year made $20 billion of gross profit on $30 billion of sales.
It then goes on to detail a reversal in that profit trend which has since gone away (it’s a 2022 article). Nvidia is making huge fat profits again, since everyone has quadrupled down on AI.
“Won’t you feel for the poor money-gouging GPU manufacturers?”
Yes, chips are expensive. But the profit margins of companies like Nvidia are growing much faster than the cost of silicon.
Capturing Humans Are Nothing But Dream Comes True.
What?
I do wonder if that means we won’t see another Xbox hardware generation.
This reminds me a lot of what Sega did after the Dreamcast.
Cool cool cool… Going all-in on a dumbass-YouTube-influencer-led campaign to ruin a game dev over a manufactured outrage because PC Game-Bros don’t want to log into a “console” account. Super cool.
Look at how most people actually respond to the hits the dev has taken from this…
Pride. Glee. Excitement. “Yay I’m part of something!” “Look at RxBrad he’s not agreeing with our mob, get him!”
This isn’t empathy or justice or doing the right thing. Dipshits on the Internet adore outrage, and literally get off on watching something burn.
“They shouldn’t have allowed people where there’s no PSN to buy the game”
“omg! They did what we demanded and delisted the game where there’s no PSN! People in those regions can even get refunds no matter how much they played. That’s racist!”
Go outside, people.