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A lot of people locked down game platforms because they just want to have a seamless plug and play experience to play games without drivers, compatibility issue
by VincentEvans 3y ago
A lot of people locked down game platforms because they just want to have a seamless plug and play experience to play games without drivers, compatibility issues, or cheating. From the couch. On a 60” living room tv.
I certainly do, and so my gaming buddies. Every like 5-7 years or so we need to buy a new $400-$500 console. Seems like a good deal to me. We started back in the day on Xbox 360, now are on Xbox One, and sometime soon will migrate to Series X.
- josephcsible 3y agoMaking arbitrary peripherals not work is the opposite of "a seamless plug and play experience".
- pierat 3y agoThe masses are almost always willing to trade rights for 'ease'. It's also how we get to IoT, cloud-tied software and hardware, and all sorts of anti-purchaser tech, to benefit the actual owner. The longer I live, I realize that Stallman was right about tech. All of it.
- VincentEvans 3y agoNon-microsoft peripherals in my gaming universe are used for one purpose - to cheat and to tilt the otherwise perfectly level playing field into cheaters favor. I don’t care for their existence. There’s a ton of other options to play games where non-standard “enhancements” are allowed, along with wall hacks, map hacks, anti-recoil, trigger hacks, etc. You and Stallman can use those. Hopefully they ban mouse and keyboard too. I prefer “my ball” to officially stamped and pumped to the correct pressure.