Anyone that is on 10 still isn’t going to go to Linux

Eh, there’s a few of us. I intend to at least give Linux a solid try before I swap to Win11.

My thoughts are that at that point I realistically have to swap anyways. It’s just a question of whether I’m going to Win11- which I’ll have to customize to my preferences and generally figure out, or Linux- which I’ll have to customize to my preferences and generally figure out.

I’m on the tech savvy side of things, and I still find Linux intimidating so I don’t think this will be a mass migration to Linux or anything.

I’ve considered Linux a couple times in the past, but generally stayed away because my PC is primarily used for gaming which didn’t have the best support then. Things are kinda different now- support is generally better.

Meh, I could see it if Microsoft is willing to basically just give Obsidian the IP for a game. Bethesda realistically wouldn’t really have a say in that I don’t think.

We’re apparently getting Skyblivion this year, too. That sounds like it’ll be fun.

It’s the kind of thing you just learn over time as you play. It can be pretty brutal early on tho.

It could be worse- first MOBA I really got into was Smite and there’s ~130 characters in that game.

Why not do both? Keep GTA VI Online’s price low, and the main campaign at like $80.

It’s exactly what they did with Red Dead Redemption 2. RDR2 is $60, Red Dead Online is $20.

I have no idea how it is for your country specifically, but for the US pcpartpicker.com is pretty amazing for price checking stuff. I know it works for a lot of other countries as well.

$869, $899, $979.

That price is from some random reseller that’s out of their mind.

7900xtx costs 1.6k$ rn

…where? Is that CAD or AUD? I can’t find many on sale, but I just found a 7900 xtx for $999, and the XTX’s MSRP is $999.

Fair enough. I’m not necessarily advocating for people to buy AMD cards, just that realistically the price is pretty irrelevant for a lot of people buying GPUs. They’re going to read AMD and bow out.

I’m also very interested in how Intel shapes up, though.

Realistically people just won’t be buying them because “AMD drivers bad” or “I’ve always had Nvidia”

I’m intrigued. My socks weren’t blown off or anything, but it looks interesting enough to keep an eye out for more info.

I’m just looking at the PCGamer article- I don’t have a Statista account and I’m guessing the only source for that is the PCGamer article anyways because the numbers are the exact same.

There’s ~46,000 response that reported income there, and 22217 of them reported making less than $10,000. Another 9179 said less than $25000. I don’t think this is going to be indicative of gamers in general based off of just that.

Across the board the most common reasons were ‘demo game’, which would likely end up resulting in a sale anyways, and ‘can’t afford’ which would likely not result in a sale regardless of the ability to pirate.

But you’re right that I could absolutely see an exec reading that article, looking at a chart and losing his mind.

1 third of PC gamers openly admit to pirating instead of buying.

Source? My sample size is small, but out of my entire group(maybe 11 people) exactly one pirates PC games. I’d be shocked if 1/3 of gamers in general were pirating stuff with any kind of regularity.

If you’re including pirating console games to play via emulation that number jumps drastically, though.

That would be entirely too easily bypassed. Also, afaik, it’s kinda what Denuvo does when it’s offline. You can take a file from a legitimate install- I don’t know how/which one- and put it in a pirated copy and Denuvo will work fine… for two days. Then the little certificate or w.e. expires, and you’ve gotta get another one.