Ignoring the desire for state control a moment.
If they actually cared, they would spend the money on education and social services instead.
The internet is already age-gated, children cannot buy an internet connection.
It is adults who let them access it, unsupervised. Better parental controls and education/advice on how to use them is required for current and future parents.
I hope more oil crisises occur so we can finally transition away some of our reliance on it.
I don't blame them, the tactics used are manipulative by design and should be regulated further.
Even ignoring the market research, its an easy observation. Most gamers buy a few or less games per year. Them games usually being the big AAA ones marketed to them.
Consoles are brought up a lot because that is what is most popular with the average gamer, I mentioned it's not exclusive to console. PC has however always had more success with indies and has less of that type of customer, though that seems to be shifting a bit recently with the PC market overtaking consoles.
It's not tribalism to merely point things out about different segments. Not everything someone says is an attack.
I also never said
"console gamers will buy anything they're told to"
I dont know why we are fabricating quotes or falsely insinuating.
Have you been personally affected by this? I didnt mean to offend you.
Yes. You did. We weren't discussing stores advertising, but the effects.
You missed the context.
No, all games should release server binaries (and the game for free if it's a subscription model) after they close down. Same for free-to-play or whatever, we should have the right to archive games.
It's not up to me to pay extra for servers, they should take the costs of them into account when deciding to make an online game.
Games like World of Warcraft make you pay for DLC and a subscription, which is ridiculous. OSRS just asks for a monthly subscription, is that a model I want to see expanded? Absolutely fucking not. On topic though, games with that model should still have to release the entire game for free after they close the official servers.
Thats not a business model we want to encourage.
Games should be buy once, play forever.
There's no issue with it, they are obviously going to take money to play a game, that's on their own morals to decide.
But a lot of people just blindly buy whatever is shown to them, its why standards for games in the mainstream market has fallen off a cliff over the last 15 years. We have people buying $30 skins on the regular...
Yea its a strange decision from them. We dont need another cloud storage solution, when their mail service still needs a lot of polish.