Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours agoPokemon go has been extremely profitable, the free to play model works. They don’t need to subsidize shit.
Free to play games work by being pay2win and by catering to whales. Sorry but you are wrong.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I’ve been in software design and development for decades. Sorry, but you are wrong.
The reason these companies are so profitable is because they sell your data.
Whales are fine, but that’s not their only revenue stream. People freely give up their data to them and that’s stupidly valuable. If you think these companies aren’t selling it, you’re very naive.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
I’m a data engineer, ofc I know that. But you were excusing it as if their service has costs. That’s bs, because their reported earnings that done include whatever profit they are going to gain from these it of train data already were very profitable.
That’s why I said you were in wrong. Not because you expected them to sell everything they could, so did I, but because you justified that behaviour from the free to play model. That model exists in plenty games that are extremely successful without harvesting things beyond metadata.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.
They’re selling shit they never asked their users does that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.
My point was they’re doing it.
Serinus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You guys agree and it’s just the word “subsidy” he has an issue with because subsidies have the connotation of helping actual people.