Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now
Abundance114@lemmy.world 13 hours agoScrew all the consoles. They deserve extinction for scamming everyone for years by requiring monthly subscriptions to play online.
Literally like selling someone a subscription to drive your car out of town.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
We do have that. It’s the gas tax we pay to the government.
Abundance114@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I dont think the analogy works. Gas taxes are universal in the U.S. for road fuel, they also fund infrastructure, not stock holders and CEOs.
A tax is not an arbitrary subscription fee, it’s an ongoing expensive.
In order for your analogy to work, the fee would need to be created out of no where for no reason other than self enrichment; and there would need to be a viable alternative that provides practically the exact same benefit with no fee.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It works pretty well. The console network fees fund infrastructure, the employees that run the infrastructure, etc. neither the gas tax nor the console network fees are arbitrary. As for the “required renewal despite not using it” thing we just have other things for that in the form of vehicle registration.