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musou wrote (edited )

dungeon siege might have been a diablo clone but it was a pretty good diablo clone.

also age of empires was good and gave us the wololo meme.

also asheron's call was better than everquest IMO

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musou wrote

i did UT2004 for about 2.5 years and i was playing 60-80 hours a week on top of going to school. i think i made about $1200 total across the whole time? i mostly got paid in CPU components. and i had to fly myself to the LANs. so really it's more like i broke even.

thresh and Fatal1ty got rich, not from playing games, but from selling the idea that you could get rich playing games. aside from that there is basically no money (in FPS anyway, which is the only area i know about). seems like that's the very definition of a bubble. eventually they'll run out of greater fools.

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Moonside wrote

Honestly, this all just starts making library card a hecking steal in comparison and they even have games nowadays! I have a museum card that let's me visit over 200 museums for free in my country.

I can imagine PC gaming being cheaper if your tastes run a bit left field, like if you primarily emulate, play older games, indie games or a specific genre such as visual novels. But then you're clearly outside of the "gamer" culture and it's also clear that even this isn't going to be cheaper than being really into music, film, TV, podcasts or books. And you're likely using the machine to do work, pay the bills etc. which kind of ruins relaxation. Different things and places, different moods, at least for me.

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