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If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? (lemmy.world)
submitted 16 hours ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

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[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe in the orange box era? Did we even have that much memory back then? /s

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The PS3, which had hardware a bit ahead of the curve when it launched in late 2006, had a whopping 512MB of RAM.

So 2GB would have been relatively beefy specs in comparison when The Orange Box released the following year. 4GB would be excessive.

I recall the PC I built in 2011 for Skyrim had 4GB of RAM and I thought that was great at the time. A lot of games (Skyrim included) were 32-bit applications at launch and were limited in terms of the total RAM they could utilize, so 4GB was the cap for a lot of titles until 64-bit support became more commonplace.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Jesus christ I forgot what dark times those were. Just checked and indeed min memory was 512MB for Half life 2

Goddamn kids these days don't know how good they got it (ignoring all the other stuff going on right now)