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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
You're exaggerating extremely. The last time PC gaming was actually "complicated" was DOS. And that was largely a good thing, but... calling plug and play windows era before Steam difficult is hilarious. Just goes to show how braindead the average person is nowadays that clicking a few executables rather than one button is too much to ask.
gpt
I'm with you. I've been playing games since the 90s, and you just pop the cd in and follow the installation guide. The default setup worked every time if you knew nothing about computers and didn't want to "tune" anything using the custom install option.