31 Gaming Memes for Old School Gamers Who Never Stopped Playing

John Summers • Contributor

Nov 17, 2024 8:00 PM EST

How did I not see it coming? I lived through this once already, and I still didn't see it coming! I'm talking about Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, and the entire subscription model where you pay a monthly fee for access to a massive library of games. At first, it sounded incredible: no need to buy individual games—just download whatever you want. Amazing, right? But I should have known better. This is the same thing that happened with video stores.

We used to spend hours at Blockbuster, browsing countless movies before finally picking one to take home. Now, with thousands of movies on demand, all we do is scroll endlessly through the options and often end up watching nothing.

And now it's happening with games. We don't visit game stores anymore; instead, we scroll through hundreds of titles and rarely play any of them. Worse yet, even if we pick a game, we don't truly own it. We're paying for access to games that disappear once the subscription ends. I'm starting to think this wasn't such a great deal after all.

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