I hate that everything is a cash grab in modern gaming

So, to start we’re still seeing amazing titles like Wukong and Elden ring coming out which is great but if you remember the good ol’ days from 2015-2019ish you will agree that mostly everything from gaming software to peripherals to the actual games have become extremely user unfriendly over the past years.

Previously I would download a lightweight app or driver and I would be good to go but now every peripheral has a bloated 1 gb app that comes with a all kinds of unnecessary stuff and will literally eat up all my RAM on startup.

Also has anyone else noticed that literally everything that requires an account almost always forces you to enter your phone for “2 factor authentication” as well, like Im pretty sure that no one is trying to hack into my Razer synapse account.

Graphics have stagnated and games that look like theyre from 2017 still manage to bring flagship GPU’s to their knees, it seems like devs have completely given up on any optimisations whatsoever.

To play just singleplayer games I still need to connect to the internet sometimes and almost every fame has microtransactions built in now.

I really hate the direction we’re headed in