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Stop Killing Games (EU edition) - Moldman vs. Publishers
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Everything this guy said I must have seen a dozen times before. It must be so frustrating for Ross and everyone associated with SKG to have to respond to the same 5 arguments over and over and over again.
Everything this guy said I must have seen a dozen times before. It must be so frustrating for Ross and everyone associated with SKG to have to respond to the same 5 arguments over and over and over again.
A lot of it is "govmint telling me what to do",I'm pretty sure Ross and the boys have said they would have picked literally any other option to save games but government regulations but nothing else will stop the games being killed.
In the case of bombs that flop super hard, i.e. Concord, it's probably to ensure that they can secure tax write offs for them. Does attempts of pirate servers of dead games invalidates an attempt at such tax write offs, which was why Sony was super quick to DMCA people that make Concord private servers?
To expand on this, they want the ability to shut down games for the broad reason of more money.
There is an unwritten understanding with big game publishers that they all want the available pie of customers to be as big as possible. If they leave their old game in a playable state some small % of that games playerbase will not carryover to newer games. But if they kill the game, you’re now only left with the options of buy a new game or stop gaming.
They want you to constantly be buying new product, it’s the industry with the strongest push towards “you will own nothing and will like it”.
What did this fellow even made? A shitty furfag VN on renpy? That absolutely requires constant Internet connection and so hard to patch out. My heart is bleeding for his plight
What did this fellow even made? A shitty furfag VN on renpy? That absolutely requires constant Internet connection and so hard to patch out. My heart is bleeding for his plight
in one of those replies he specifically says "w-well yeah it's possible, but I'm not doing it with the government holding a shotgun to my head."
What even is the remedy if gamedevs don't offer refunds or don't provide games at end of service? Does the government sieze the assets you're going to throw in the trash anyway? At that point just seems like a dumb fag move to resist.
in one of those replies he specifically says "w-well yeah it's possible, but I'm not doing it with the government holding a shotgun to my head."
What even is the remedy if gamedevs don't offer refunds or don't provide games at end of service? Does the government sieze the assets you're going to throw in the trash anyway? At that point just seems like a dumb fag move to resist.
The game then gets taken off services like Steam, dev and their company have their reputation run thru the mud, and another PirateSoftware lolcow is born. If someone wants to go down that route, why stop them?
>Nooo don’t regulate the multibillion games industry because I may one day join them with my shitty furfag itch.io shovelware! t. The most raped, servile goy alive
A lot of it is "govmint telling me what to do",I'm pretty sure Ross and the boys have said they would have picked literally any other option to save games but government regulations but nothing else will stop the games being killed.
You wouldn't put sawdust in your bread willingly, at least I hope not. You would only get that from a company who thinks they can get away with it because they have government protection.
In a free market system, if it were found out that a large bread company puts sawdust in their product, consumers would just switch to a competitor who doesn't.
What if all the companies are putting saw dust in my bread? Because that's kinda how things are going. Beyond just video games or even software in general, products are being made worse for consumers because that makes companies more money. I've personally experienced the effects of planned obsolescence with a lot of stuff but in particular video game controllers. Every modern video game controller I've bought has started having issues in 3-5 years while my old dream cast and game cube controllers lasted almost 20. There's also things like how much companies are fighting stuff like Right to Repair which would pretty objectively make things better for consumers. These are general industry trends rather than a few bad apples in the market. And I'm sure for any example I come up with there exists alternatives that people could buy from that give them a better product or overall customer experience. But the simple fact is the vast majority of people buy what is advertised to them, that's why a company like Apple can dominate the phone market despite not really being much better than the competition. People simply buying from someone else when the products start getting worse sounds good on paper, and probably works on the small scale. But the reality we currently exist in is far more complicated than that, and the companies creating these negative trends have waaaaay more influence over just about everything than most people realize.
What if all the companies are putting saw dust in my bread? Because that's kinda how things are going. Beyond just video games or even software in general, products are being made worse for consumers because that makes companies more money. I've personally experienced the effects of planned obsolescence with a lot of stuff but in particular video game controllers. Every modern video game controller I've bought has started having issues in 3-5 years while my old dream cast and game cube controllers lasted almost 20. There's also things like how much companies are fighting stuff like Right to Repair which would pretty objectively make things better for consumers. These are general industry trends rather than a few bad apples in the market. And I'm sure for any example I come up with there exists alternatives that people could buy from that give them a better product or overall customer experience. But the simple fact is the vast majority of people buy what is advertised to them, that's why a company like Apple can dominate the phone market despite not really being much better than the competition. People simply buying from someone else when the products start getting worse sounds good on paper, and probably works on the small scale. But the reality we currently exist in is far more complicated than that, and the companies creating these negative trends have waaaaay more influence over just about everything than most people realize.
Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid. The niggercattle that is the average consumer simply won't care how hard they're getting fucked over with the right spin.
Best you can do is try to inform people and not make the same mistakes yourself. Are all the big corpos pumping out slop? Support small creators. Ignore the astroturf and the next big thing. The more people do that, the more power we can take away from the fatcats.
