ThrowawayOnLemmy

Oh no, what ever would we do without the tweets from game developers? How How will clickbait articles survive? On the plus side, they’d get a lot less death threats for updates to their games. And we wouldn’t have a new news article for every fucking tweet that gets made.

Yep. They didn’t say anything about sharing those riches with anyone.

It is medium, after all.

This has happened before.

Kinda embarrassing this keeps happening

The other side already sends death threats and is calling for a war over a conviction against Trump by a jury of their peers. I dunno if I’d be that concerned about their take on hypocrisy.

Boo, paywall.

Here’s an internet archive link instead.

I like the art style of this, and despite how oversaturated the market is for 2D Metroidvanias, I keep playing them. I like how progression feels in Metroidvanias. I really suck at perfect timing combat though. Dark souls like games typically kick my ass. I’ll probably pick this up, though.

We knew that when they were buying them. Carbon offsets are just another way to kick the can down the road past the point of no return.

Oh cool. More stuff I don’t want on YouTube.

Get rid of games and shorts, and seriously fix your algorithm. I’ve been getting so much right wing nut job videos and AI voice generated garbage videos that it’s making me regret any time I put into YouTube. I’ve blocked more channels in the last 2 weeks than I’ve blocked over the last 5 years.

I disagree. This is just a market maturing. Gaming is relatively new compared to other media and really started exploding in the late 80’s and 90’s. Someone aged 55 is still a decade away from retirement and has probably been playing games since the late 80’s. It’s totally possible they’ve been gamers the whole time.

And gaming is hardly so expensive as to be compared to Ferrari. There’s still plenty of ways to play games cheap. People pick up used games and older consoles all the time. Even new, games aren’t prohibitively expensive. Don’t get me wrong. A new console is not cheap by any means, but there are plenty of ways to enjoy video games and not spend thousands. You don’t have to have the newest stuff to enjoy games.

Also who said Ferrari’s are designed for 20 year olds?

I get that. And I self host the things I care about. But for the average layman? I don’t see self hosting as a real option. Unless you are decently tech savvy, and have an aptitude for troubleshooting, most people aren’t gonna put in the time or effort of initial setup. Even if maintenance is minimal once it’s running. That first leap into self-hosted is daunting.

I think of it this way… would I expect my dad to be able to do it? Absolutely not. And my dad is decently tech savvy for 70.

All that useless reddit data.

As far as data goes, purchase data is one I can live with businesses doing this kinda stuff with. I’m using their platform to complete the sale, so it’d make sense to me they’d have data of that sale. And it makes sense to me that a business would leverage that data in ways to benefit themselves.

Someone tell me if I should be concerned, but this seems like what everyone else has done as long as they’ve been able to do it.

Churn is inevitable with any subscription service.

The trick is creating just enough value and exclusive content/services that you feel like you’re gonna miss out if you leave. But not too much.

I haven’t seen any incentive to stay with any specific game subscription service via exclusive content or services. But I do see plenty of attempts to lock people into services with shitty tactics. Like forcing save data to the cloud. Good luck moving that saved file to your own personal copy of the game. Or multiple tiered service options with features/games locked behind more expensive options.

It’s all manipulative and anti consumer.

For real. This is a straight path. No turning necessary.

Frankly, I don’t think we should be relying on the benevolence of billionaires.

And they could be just as philanthropic while also paying their fair share of taxes because they’re just that rich.

The game reminds me a lot of dead cells in the way the combat and gameplay flow. But I can’t stand the art style.

Don’t think they mean sharing data. I think they’re referring to sharing an equally regulated digital environment. That could totally be done without sharing info, but following equal practices.

Really at this point, the lack of regulation is already killing the Internet. Google search isn’t search anymore, it’s ad delivery. Reddit and Facebook are ‘news’ for a huge majority of people. Amazon is essentially the only online retailer people have available, and where other options exist, Amazon uses it’s leverage to make those other experiences just a bit worse. All of these companies use their size and monopolistic weight to prevent competition and by extension worsen consumer options and create worse experiences.

The digital market is doing what any market does, just a lot faster.

Mostly so we can keep committing war crimes with impunity.