I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.
Selfhosted git on .onion or .i2p.
What percentage of the gamers that you know would just be able to find and download an emulator from a git repo hosted on .onion or .i2p?
For me, that’s just me. None of my gamer buddies would put in that effort, they’d just buy a product or play a game from steam.
I think we’re still a long way from privacy focused protocols being mainstream in the way the web has become in the last 15 years.
I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.
torzu currently does this, though iirc the development is slowing because it’s a big time commitment