Doesn’t that rely on everyone having a fast internet connection with a high data cap? That’s not the case for a lot of people
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MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 days agoI admire your optimism, but I think this will get used as leverage for a push to cloud gaming. The end goal is for is to own nothing.
They’re certainly welcome to attempt selling that to me.
They won’t like the outcome, but that’s more of a them problem.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 4 days ago
msage@programming.dev 3 days ago
Do you play Call of Duty every release?
No? Because millions of people do.
Do you think your actions are offsetting that?
Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Do you play Call of Duty every release?No? Because millions of people do.Do you think your actions are offsetting that?Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.
Based on your tone, you come from the Randy Pitchford school of public relations.
If you’re uncertain about what I’m getting at, my recent spending on Borderlands, and Borderlands related goods, averages out to zero dollars and zero cents.
msage@programming.dev 3 days ago
I’m telling you that we are in a minority.
And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.
EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.
Same as with everything.
I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m telling you that we are in a minority.And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.Same as with everything.I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.
I understand your thesis, but am offering mine as a wholesale replacement instead of a rebuttal:
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The entire gaming industry produces non-essential goods.
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No one video game, nor the entire industry, have a monopoly on entertainment.
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I dictate what products and services I want, the video game industry does not.
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If the industry doesn’t produce products that I want, the industry gets zero of my entertainment dollars, or attention.
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I can and will spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere, and have experienced zero stress as a result.
Why “fight” an industry that needs you more than you need it? They cannot stop me from disregarding them, which certainly makes getting money out of me a challenge.
I cannot stress enough how much of a Them problem this actually is.
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
How have we “lost”?
I don’t think Indie games are going anywhere. If anything, this is probably an opportunity for them to feast.
The big AAA titles that, by our own admission, we already aren’t playing? They may go a different direction that we don’t like, but they also aren’t a product (or service, as it may become) for me.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We’ll see. I hope you’re right. Similar tactics in the housing market have created situations in which rent is cheaper than mortgage payments, which is a bad portent.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.
They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what? no they haven’t. Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments we just set up the finanical system to disallow most renters from taking out a mortgage because its more profitable to trap people in an endless cycle of payment.