Don't be discouraged though. There's still plenty to love about PC gaming. There is always plenty to look forward to, both in the past and future titles. For the past titles, modding scene is still rapidly growing. Emulation scene is healthy. No subscription service can change that. And not every single publisher will go for Sweeney's Sweet Swindle. And Unreal Engine is not the only engine worth developing on. I'm optimistic that their shop will crash and burn and forgotten. Perhaps not anytime soon, but I have faith, however small it may be.
Yeah, I'm getting rather old, and tired, to deal with stuff like that.
I love cinema, especially "cult" cinema (italian 70's horror, 50's sci-fi, exploitation, slasher movies, westerns, and plenty more), and just recently I subscribed to a package from the great guys at
Vinegar Syndrome that gets me a box of Blu-Ray movies every month, from now until the end of the year.
After working 6-7 day weeks, like I sometimes do, and working 12-16 hours a day, instead of dealing with pre-order bonuses, retail exclusives, platform exclusives, delayed launches, microtransactions, and now all this EGS crap, I can simply relax, kick back, and watch a "crappy", over-the-top low budget 70's/80's production, with a bucket of popcorn, and chill out.
Tell me, what do you think I'm finding more and more enticing?
I mean, I won't stop buying games. I still have my point & click and FMV adventure games, and shmups.
Apparently, none of these genres are worthy of being money-bagged by Epic.
And one of these days, I'll bother
Schnitzelfee again in order to have a kickass, working, MAME machine with old arcade titles.