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This is why I will always have some nostalgia for physical media. I still got CDs I bought in the 90s (which I've copied onto my hard drives a long, long time ago) and while they need a like coaxing to work at times, they are forever mine and no one can take them from me.
I was very hesitant to go on steam specifically for their 'you don't own shit even if you paid and followed the rules' garbage.
Steam is crazy in how it's still usable and not completely enshittified after existing for so many years. I don't know how they do it
It's called staying away from venture capital. It really is as simple as that. Because Valve has a lucrative business model they have no need or desire to raise capital from outside investors, therefore there is nobody to squeeze them for value at the expense of their customers.
If you watch Cory Doctorow's talk where he coined the word "enshittification" he explains how the process works, and it starts with outside investment. Enshittification is just a catchy term for value extraction, from the perspective of the customer.
Damn, now I understand the hype!
I bought Star Wars squadrons and it worked for a bit. Now it doesn't even boot and I don't know why. Initially it was my shitty anti-virus that was causing the problem, but even after disabling it it doesn't load.
I gotta thank Ubisoft for saving me money by consistently saying dumbass shit so I don't buy their crappy games. The one Elon tweet was still pretty funny though I won't lie.
And people will still defend this company
Does anyone defend them? I think what happens is that people get mad at them but then still buy the games anyway because they're absolute fucking idiots. I believe this is what happens.
People are still buying the games. Call it what you want but if you give them money it's your fault they keep doing this.
Same goes for the people who whine about how broken COD is yet still buy it every single year. People often wonder why the game industry is the way it is, but then you realize the average person has a gold fish brain and will keep wasting their money on crap just to be disappointed over and over. Companies absolutely love that kind of customer and would rather rely on them than actually try.
Yea that's exactly what I'm saying. I blame the consumers. It's not like they don't have options.
Yeah, that's true
The way of the future....VCRs went away. DVDRs went away, replaced with DVRs and membership streaming, where you can "buy" a movie on Amazon Prime, but if they lose the rights to the movie, so do you - oh well. Your Tesla will brick, if Elon gets mad at you, and your video games will stop working if "the man" unplugs the server. Oh, and dont get caught pulling out your old dusty VCR to record the Super Bowl to watch later....thats a copyright violation. The oligarchs want to make sure the plebes eventually own nothing. If the masters can take it all away, the peasants will do what they're told, be quiet about it, and smile when in sight of the masters.
Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers "pirate" their games then.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft and all that.