The Horrible Future of Gaming

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The Horrible Future of Gaming

So, after a trip to the future to get my copy of Final Fantasy XXVXVXII I decided to take a look into how gaming has changed in the 20 years I jumped. And boy was it bad. Here are the top items that make gaming so bad in the future.

1.You are no longer allowed to own games. Or license them. Or even rent them. You have to buy the license to rent the license to license the ability to buy permission to rent a game. And this process can take up to 5 years.

2.The above license has to be renewed every day. Luckily it only takes 23 hours and 49 minutes to process. If the license is not renewed, the system explodes, and the offender faces up to 123 years in game-less confinement.

3.All games are online. There is no such thing of a physical copy.

4.A single game can take up all the space on a 1050 GB computer. This is not because of the game?s graphics, or length. 99.99% of this memory is taken up by advertisement.

5.Games take about 1 week to finish loading a level if your computer is fast. Slower computers can take up to a few months.

6.Most games only have total play time of about 12 minutes, but because of long load times and such, most people never finish a game.

7.Game prices have gone up. Most new games now cost around $13,843 without the 57.5% tax put on every game. Game systems area around a million dollars without the 78.45% tax.

8.Every person is required to buy a game.

9.You have to log into your game every 3.2 minutes or else your game will be deleted. If you become idle in your game (which happens if you don?t do something with the game for 2.76 seconds) for 14.6 seconds, you will automatically become logged out, and given a 20 minute suspension where you can?t log in.

10.DLC?s are necessary, as 83% of a game is left out to be used as a DLC. A DLC cost twice as much as a game. Games that allow gamers to buy an extra map for their games now require you to buy 11 map packs to complete a map. These pieces are randomly generated, with some being less common than others.

This is all that I found out right now. I plan on doing another investigation quite soon. So, if you think gaming is bad, just be glad this isn?t happening to you. Till I report back, goodbye.
 

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Hooray for hilarious hypothetical scenarios! Seriously though, do you really think we'd let it get that horrible? Even the dumbasses at the bottom of the food chain who just buy without thought would majorly backlash at all of this, and gaming would probably experience another big crash. However, I really do think you were just joking here, because, well, how could you not be? Those are huge exaggerations.
 

Redfire313

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Racecarlock said:
Hooray for hilarious hypothetical scenarios! Seriously though, do you really think we'd let it get that horrible? Even the dumbasses at the bottom of the food chain who just buy without thought would majorly backlash at all of this, and gaming would probably experience another big crash. However, I really do think you were just joking here, because, well, how could you not be? Those are huge exaggerations.
Of course I was joking. I just looked at all of the problems of gaming I've seen, combined with all the complaints that I keep seeing, and multiplied it by ten. To anything other than a joke would be crazy. Just take a step back to laugh, not necessarily at this somewhat humorous post I made, but at how much people complain about the smallest things, and how stupid some of the companies are.
 

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This is the funniest thing I have read in a while. Welcome to the Escapist, excellent thread here.

Or it could be that I'm also really tired.
*bookmarks and checks it in the morning*
 

LordRoyal

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The saddest part about his verbal hyperbole is that it's not that far off the mark.
 

Dogstile

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I must be missing something. Has taking something that's annoying at best and blowing it out of proportion to the point of being ridiculous funny now?

Just seems silly, to me.
 

Grabbin Keelz

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Dunno what your talking about. I just came back from the future and everything seems pretty fine. They let me try out Half Life 3, but said if I told anyone how it was, they'd send a lawyer back to sue me.
 

Redfire313

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LordRoyal said:
The saddest part about his verbal hyperbole is that it's not that far off the mark.
Just look at the loading times in Duke Nukem Forever.

zehydra said:
This is the funniest thing I have read in a while. Welcome to the Escapist, excellent thread here.

Or it could be that I'm also really tired.
*bookmarks and checks it in the morning*
Haha, thanks! I've been on Escapist for a while, but I rarely post anything. And I hope it's still as funny as you think it is in the morning. XD
 

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Oh good. For a moment there, I thought you were another one of those doom-sayers. They're as bad as the 2012 people. It's crazy.
 

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dogstile said:
I must be missing something. Has taking something that's annoying at best and blowing it out of proportion to the point of being ridiculous funny now?

Just seems silly, to me.
Read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

SNL has done this for decades
 

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Redfire313 said:
Racecarlock said:
Hooray for hilarious hypothetical scenarios! Seriously though, do you really think we'd let it get that horrible? Even the dumbasses at the bottom of the food chain who just buy without thought would majorly backlash at all of this, and gaming would probably experience another big crash. However, I really do think you were just joking here, because, well, how could you not be? Those are huge exaggerations.
Of course I was joking. I just looked at all of the problems of gaming I've seen, combined with all the complaints that I keep seeing, and multiplied it by ten. To anything other than a joke would be crazy. Just take a step back to laugh, not necessarily at this somewhat humorous post I made, but at how much people complain about the smallest things, and how stupid some of the companies are.
I knew it. Course, I probably ruined the joke for everyone else and.... sorry folks!
 

Redfire313

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dogstile said:
I must be missing something. Has taking something that's annoying at best and blowing it out of proportion to the point of being ridiculous funny now?

Just seems silly, to me.
Depends on your sense of humor. Whats funny to one person can be boring to another. To each his own. I wasn't going for a masterpiece here, so I didn't expect it to be good.

Grabbin Keelz said:
Dunno what your talking about. I just came back from the future and everything seems pretty fine. They let me try out Half Life 3, but said if I told anyone how it was, they'd send a lawyer back to sue me.
Ah, well you just so happened to go to an alternate reality, or you didn't go far enough. If Half Life 3 came out when all of this happened, then Valve Time knows no bounds.
 

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FalloutJack said:
Oh good. For a moment there, I thought you were another one of those doom-sayers. They're as bad as the 2012 people. It's crazy.
Hard to tell if this is sarcasim or not, but I'll take it as if it is. Unlike 2012 people, or doom-sayers, I don't believe what i posted is going to happen. I just like to poke fun at annoying things. Like you do with doom-sayers and 2012 people. XD

Edit: Sorry for the double post.
 

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Redfire313 said:
FalloutJack said:
Oh good. For a moment there, I thought you were another one of those doom-sayers. They're as bad as the 2012 people. It's crazy.
Hard to tell if this is sarcasim or not, but I'll take it as if it is. Unlike 2012 people, or doom-sayers, I don't believe what i posted is going to happen. I just like to poke fun at annoying things. Like you do with doom-sayers and 2012 people. XD

Edit: Sorry for the double post.
Let me be more direct: I am glad that you are indeed poking fun at the woe crowd and not a member of it yourself.
 

EdwardOrchard

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If you take the first few points and tone them down to a realistic level, you seem to be hinting at cloud gaming/computing, and could very well be the future. It could potentially solve a lot of problems with today's gaming.
 

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Honestly, at this point with how the world is, I wouldn't mind paying a video game tax.

I may be the only person in the world that actually likes doing their taxes... because I know it's going to help fix shit, pay for things, and maybe one day I'll see THE GOD DAMNED ONRAMP FOR THE FREEWAY NEAR MY COLLEGE FINALLY GET FINISHED SO I DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE AN EXTRA 5 MILES ON SURFACE ROADS TO GET TO THE NEXT ONRAMP!

That and Digital only gaming... I already do that... and as long as TF2 still exists.... I really won't care.