I hear you Faelwolf. IRC, damn. I think to this day it's probably one of the only applications I actually paid for the lifetime license. It was all underground then, before Napster, everything was good... no phishing, ransomware, nobody really exploiting anybody they could for money. It's was a busy, hectic world, unseen.
~K33PiN.iT.FR33~
Used to run a couple of release racing boards back in the day. EQUiNOX & HeVeN
Rocking on 50 next year so I know what you mean about old age, although compared to our peers I still think we are younger at heart due to the development and change we been through with tech. I'm sure it will be the same for the next few gens after us, it's why gaming is such a lucrative business.
Not sure I like the way the beta releases have slowly become the norm for games though. What ever happened to a final release and plenty of QA? don't get me wrong, I was a bit fan of RUST and others that never came out of BETA, and I kind of like the fact that ongoing development beings new elements to the game as you go along, but isn't that what DLC's are for. Just seems companies are so keen to get releases out now they pick up the pieces after the fact and create dire environments for their client base to just moan and complain, demand refunds etc... it's this greed to a certain degree that has polluted communities and reduced them to troll havens.