“Why don’t you pay for every damn bullet you fire in the game you fucking peasants!!??” -Unity CEO
Wizards of the Coast
Decentralize. Democratize. Demonetize. Time for a new internet, a new gaming industry, and a way of sharing thoughts and ideas where clout is the least important factor.
Literally every company is doing this. There was a time when, for example, Apple could reverse engineer the Word document format and make their own word processor that uses them. This was very common and resulted in things like IBM PC clones that sped up innovation.
Now companies use litigation and corporate buyouts to reduce their competition, then set up ways to extract rents on customers rather than providing a service. Business folks love this because it means a consistent stream of revenue that won’t go away. And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.
For more details, read Chokepoint Capitalism.
And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.
When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I’d just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.
Right now it’s your right to do what you want to your car as long as it still passes vehicle inspection, but it appears that car makers want new laws that prevent you from modifying your own car.
If we just sit on our hands now, well likely move into a future where we will be forced to either pay subscription or take public transit, which requires subscriptions.
Microsoft. They’ve been itching to go to a fully cloud-dependent subscription-only model for Windows for a while now.
I could’ve sworn that they said win 10 was going to be the last windows and it would just receive updates.
This is a turning point and I’m here for it
Twitter, Reddit, Facebook=> FediverseUnity=> GodotAAA Studios=> Indie devsShort term gains … and gain them as fast as possible … because the end is coming near and everything is going to be over soon.
While depressing, it makes sense, seeing as this market model isn’t sustainable in the long term, let alone short term.
what did Blizzard do this year?
Apart from the forcing everyone playing Overwatch to convert over to a half-baked so-called sequel that promised it’d be worth it by having a single player story mode (then dropping that) and expecting everyone to roll the battle pass boulder up the hill all over again, well, just the status quo of mistreating its workers and being smug assholes with a credulous big spending cult protecting their reputation.
ELI5 the second part?
Here’s a start, but there’s plenty more out there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/06/blizzard-culture-sexual-harassment-alcohol/
Zoom: “wE cAnT cOlAbOrAtE iF wErE nOt In PeRsOn. We NeEd EmPloYeEs To ReTuRn tO tHe OfFiCe.”
They have stiff competition but this has to be one of the most incompetent boners I have ever seen pulled by a major corporation. Stating very clearly to the entire world that you have no confidence in your own product. If Eric Yuan (Zoom’s CEO) wasn’t the principle shareholder he probably would have been fired out of a cannon by now.
Companies be like:
