Sea of Thieves is the game for you

While selling data in general is shitty, I want to push back on the fear mongering a little bit.

This only applies to new accounts, can be opt-out of, and doesn’t apply to self-hosted content.

It’s impressive that’s still the case when SteamOS is running a translation layer that Windows doesn’t have to.

Also, SteamOS is actually a pretty fully-featured OS, and it’s based off of Linux, so it’s not that specialized, besides the UI.

There’s some good points about reliance on internet but also note that there are plenty of dead old games and the ones we talk about now are those that survived.

There are modern games that will likely last.

I tried jellyfin but it isn’t even close to as a good as plex

Some particular reasons why I’d recommend Minecraft for this:

• it’s very easy to get started, but there’s a lot of depth if you get into it
• its pretty slow-paced
• its a multiplayer game where someone of a much higher skill level and someone of a much lower skill level can play together without the noob player feeling that they are holding the advanced player back
• if you set the difficulty to peaceful it’s hard to die, and it’s impossible to fully “lose”. You can also turn on keepinventory.
• it’s a very open-ended game where you can come up with your own goals, which makes it something that everybody can find fun in their own way
• if they do get into it, it’s a good segue into a wide variety of other games. Just figure out what part of Minecraft they enjoy. You can also extend Minecraft by playing with mods.

You can’t gift, sell, share, or play that game on a new device once the servers shut down.

It lacks the main benefit of a digital game: not needing to keep the card with you.

It lacks the main benefit of a physical game: not needing an internet connection, which also means these fake cartridges will stop working once servers shut down

It captures the vibe of having a physical card, which I appreciate, but that’s about it. Otherwise it’s worthless.

I certainly won’t lol. I’m actually running a custom build of the mobile app with some tweaks.

Built on Moonlight! That’s what I use already lol.

Can confirm I did it like 3 times before I just started installing 3rd party Hall effect switches.

Do you use Steam?

Maybe the 50hrs is just to weed out scalpers attempting to make new accounts to buy multiple.

50hours of gameplay over the lifetime of a console is not that much. I have like 200 hours in BOTW alone.

My friends can all see how much I’ve played my Steam games and I don’t see anyone complaining about that.

lol if this happens to me it will be the straw that pushes me to uninstall Nvidia’s app and go back to manual driver installs

Doesn’t address the main advantages physical games have over digital sharing. I’ll be interested once they have features that let me “switch cartridges” with a friend offline, or let me sell or gift my virtual cartridge to a stranger.

The Lost crown will be available to try for free, before the full game can be unlocked with a single in-app purchase.

Doesn’t sound like it thankfully.

I was able to quiet mine with a bash script until eventually a software update changed the fan control to keep it quiet for me.

There are advantages to getting server-grade hardware. It’s designed to run 24/7, often supports more hard drives, ram sticks, processors, etc, and often is designed to make it very quick to replace things when they break.

You can find used servers on sites like EBay for reasonable prices. They typically come from businesses selling their old hardware after an upgrade.

However, for simple home use cases, an old regular desktop PC will be just fine. Run it until it breaks!

Agreed. In the video a lot of the “RTX Off” scenes look better IMO.