Aye, meta know, will use it for ads, and I have adblock, they have anti-adblock script, and I have anti-script blocker... Unavoidable ig, so I let them know some details of mine.

For rts - I believe we jumping to genre, not some title (dunno any) - happened, from old Starcraft, thru CnC (Ra, YR, MO), bit more modern Zero-K. I'm a bit more PvE player, while RTSes shine on pvp mostly... still had lots of fun in some gamemode.

Automaton genre did step in here, much PvE with puzzle thinking, challenges, often under time pressure. I'm into these a lot.

Online purchase are not so bad on itself. At very start over 20y ago, some yelled alarms, You own nothing, but not much of a bad happened for years. Most games goes thru Steam that are quite safe with awesome support. That nintendon't is known of delisting titles and pushing customers to buy new ones (that's also why emulations of older N systems are so popular, many wishes to play, buy if possible, but can't). As long storefront and publishers are ok, not too greedy with p2w or day-1 dlc, or even on-disc dlc (while dlc files are already on physical disc on premiere! but pay again to get them unlocked lol) are much no go. Mentioned oblivion and bethesda are big sinners here - they started it for masses.

For boot up console, modern consoles and pc's turned same. forced updates are everywhere, PC may start with Steam's BigPicture mode, that looks very like console, SteamMachine PC can be used on main room gaming system from under tv. And some tech dramas, of bad performance also happens everywhere...