Comment by Jerrrry
4 years ago
> do we enter some kind of minority report era of gaming where you have to get your eyeballs replaced with "unhackable" ones
yes.
Retinal fingerprinting with VR. you can jtag your headset, and be locked out.
the answer is "yes", because of market forces.
I want to play against other players, with an assurance that the game is fair.
I will pay money for this. A Company will deliver on this, and those who seek to infringe upon this, will be legally coerced into submission.
... wow.
I'm not usually one to judge what others spend their time/energy/motivation on, but you may want to re-evaluate your priorities.
Is having a game with that level of "unhackability" - because lets be honest, there's no such thing as unhackability - really worth everything that would have to be given up, from right to repair, right to own your hardware, the ability to not arbitrarily be locked out of something you put money into because <you were injured and lost an eye|your hardware broke and misread something|You develop a lazy eye| n number of anything else>?
If it's that important to you, play a game where cheaters are dealt with the old fashioned way. I'm ready for a break from corp hosted game servers, give me a server I can run myself.
Yes, and millions of others too.
Some people want to play games, and enjoy themselves in a competitive environment, and pay for the privilege.
If that doesn't appeal to you, that is your priority.
Don't like it?
dont buy a fuckin xbox.
telling others they shouldn't enjoy a game because "muh hardware" is literally a borderline bad-faith statement, and a shallow attempt at virtue signaling.
buy a computer to compute.
buy a console for an assurance of a fair playing enviroment.