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Gaming Then vs Gaming Now (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.

Content of the “Then” column:

Double-click GAME.exe
Play game

Content of the “Now” column:

Launch Steam
Steam updates
Steam opens
Close Steam’s ad window
Select Game
Game launcher starts
Game launcher launches Game launcher updater
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ok
Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?
No
Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing
Scroll
Scroll
Scroll
Scroll
Yes
Yes
Yes, sell my soul
Start game
Skip vendor intro
Skip vendor intro #2
Skip vendor intro #3
Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
Skip opening cutscene
Main menu opens
Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?
No
Press play.
Play game.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

Absolute bullshit, lol. Nowadays you can boot your PC, launch Steam and start into your game while 20+ years ago you were still looking for the damn CD.

And don't get me started with game updates, you had to do them MANUALLY. Go to the developer website, look at a download page, then you get offered updates: 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.2, 1.0.2b, 1.0.3, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1abc, ...

For smaller updates you had to install them in order, so you download 1.0.1a, install it, then download 1.0.1b, install it, then download... if you are lucky the bigger updates like 1.1.0 or 1.2.0 could be directly installed without any in-between steps.

Oh and installing games? World of Warcraft had 4 CDs and if you bought it with Burning Crusade you had to use 8 CDs in total for installation! And the install took ages too.

And during the installation you had to type in a cd key, which took longer than all your popups you're describing together.

I've been mostly playing on PC for the last 27 years, what we have today, even if some stuff is annoying, is 100 times better than how it was back then.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The fact that the "then" is missing so much of the bullshit we dealt with back then shows whomever made this "meme" never gamed back then.

There's also the issues with your disks getting corrupted, discs getting scratched, or losing them because they came with so goddamn many.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Same type of kid whom believes every single game worked perfectly on release and didn't need patches back then.

Sorry bro you only remember the Gems. At least a game isn't getting released that will delete your OS when you uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ooh, was there a game that did that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Actually there was a steam script that deleted your Linux root drive... that was a real thing.

I could also totally see a botched install script for win95 totally bricking a win98. Install...