Thread for predatory practices in the industry (you will own nothing)

[anonusername]

Well here's the thing. Corpo scum love subscriptions, but it's been made clear over the last century that consumers don't.
The last big subscription wave was video streaming after Netflix got big and profitable. How'd that work out for the industry? Hint: it didn't. Most lost money and none ever, not even Netflix, hit subscriber targets.
Now the big gaming ******* see GamePass or whatever (which is a loss leader to try to get fools into the walled gardens of the ****** consoles) as a potential corpo revenue stream (subscribe to UbiShart Plus!) and are too ******* stupid to see that it won't work.
******* imbeciles are just gonna sink their own company trying it. Maybe they should.

TBF, Netflix probably would have continued to hit their sub targets if they kept the streaming contracts for the entire industry's collective back catalog at rates far below market value. Netflix became huge because they acquired a huge number of content rights for pennies on the dollar before anyone realized streaming could make money. This allowed them to sell 80% of the same content people were getting from cable at a tiny fraction of the price. Since the general decline of Hollywood has meant new content is often underwhelming compared to the back catalogs, the lack of access to some of the newest IP wasn't even a huge problem. The moment studios stopped giving away their licensing deals Netflix's decline was inevitable.

[Mondain]

Netflix has been struggling to reach its goals since the cuties fiasco. Nobody cared enough to shut off their subscription prior to that

[DagothGeas5]

Netflix has been struggling to reach its goals since the cuties fiasco. Nobody cared enough to shut off their subscription prior to that

Many I know left not because of that **** but because of Netflix telling them they now require to make an account for their old mothers, friends, other family members, what have you, instead of being able to just share their own account with them and spare them any sort of technical trouble they might not be able to deal with on their own. That and rising prices.

[Red7]

locked software is always hackable as long as it can be run locally so it shouldnt even be talked about. problem is locked hardware and movement towards locked hardware cause this is how they can **** over any one who doesnt have personal chip manufacturing industry so everyone.

if i was hostile jew, which in may ways i take pride myself to be, i would like to set all hardware being sold to goyim inoperable until it gets clearence from centralised network service which i control.

if they manage to pull that **** off, dissenters would end up only having access to low tech tools. i can see them putting it as mandatory in pcs, vehicles and guns. even tho not airtight most would comply to avoid hassle/know how of tinkering with hardware.

oddly, old pc parts could get up in price in future.

Old PC parts won't go up because the hardware attestation features will be "optional". i.e. Enabled by default in Windows 12, and only possible to disable if you buy the Enterprise license. Windows 12 will only support hardware that supports giving full hardware level control of your system to Microsoft. It will be similar to a chromebook, except with more effective security that isn't just cracked by high schoolers. AAA games and many other software will refuse to run without the hardware attestation features fully enabled and confirming your system as being controlled by Microsoft. Cybercriminals will simply continue to steal code signing certificates and sign their own malware, cheats, etc as being from "trusted" corporations.

nobody who cares about sec uses windows and nobody who cares about data ownership will use modern jew corp made hardware, which was my point
i would trust more russian furry hacker than microsoft

as for games, with ai anyone will be able write and make assets for whatever game they want (but why if there is awesome robo waifu to play with with couple kidnapped sex slaves in your bitcoin zillionaire dungeon, maybe if u are poor ***), aaa gaming is dead unless they manage to effectively ban private ai and local compute power

[Red7]

Ubisoft deserves only piracy and condemnation from here out until they go bankrupt.

I wouldn't be too sure.
Consoomers will consoom.
Once I told someone that I like to pirate gaymes, and this person then proceeded to call me a ******** basement dweller, and said that I wasn't a true gaymer if I didn't pay for gaymes.
It really dawned on me then that normies truly are the most ******** sheeple consoomers in the world.

no to worry
he is vaxxed and will die in agony from colen cancer in couple years tops

[Segata]

Please pay $100 for that game you already played 18 years ago

[Vergil]

Those are gonna be some cool costumes for me to use in 2-3 years when I pirate this out of curiosity.

[Segata]

Feel free to move to the tech general thread, but I thought it fits well here



"You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot."

[CSM-101]

Feel free to move to the tech general thread, but I thought it fits well here



"You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot."

Good thing all my peripherals are Corsair.

[Xenich]

Feel free to move to the tech general thread, but I thought it fits well here



"You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot."

You can tell the shift in the market over the years and why innovation is dead. Each new "upstart" into the industry doesn't look for ways to make better products and expand their capability and features, they look for ways to compartmentalize their existing functions and monetize them. Basically, all companies have turned into banks with increasing fees and costs for things that were a part of the product sale itself.

I used to see this all the time with managers coming in and trying to put their mark on things. They would walk in, cut half the work force, increase work hours, remove bonuses and incentives, implement stupid virtual signal changes and then point to all the money they saved in the first cycle. Then, before the **** hit the fan they would jump ship and move on to another company leaving the changes to completely break down the business with existing managers being lambasted for somehow not being able to sustain that level of profitability.

[1998]

Feel free to move to the tech general thread, but I thought it fits well here



"You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot."

Not even convinced she has used a single mouse in her life. What's the plan here? You start with one button and get a new one every month in some sort of lootbox?

[LemonDemonGirl]

Why the **** do games have to cost 90$ or more? Seems rather (((greedy))).

[rusty_shackleford]

Why the **** do games have to cost 90$ or more? Seems rather (((greedy))).

If we exclude gacha, games actually make very little comparatively. Instead of trying to reduce the cost of making video games — which would involve firing DEI hires — they're just passing the cost onto the customer.

[DagothGeas5]

Why the **** do games have to cost 90$ or more? Seems rather (((greedy))).

If we exclude gacha, games actually make very little comparatively. Instead of trying to reduce the cost of making video games — which would involve firing DEI hires — they're just passing the cost onto the customer.

I would feel miserable if I knew I had to work at a job that uses so much money, knowing the comeback relies on the customers, and the game we are to make is something like "Deadname" . I really wonder what goes on with the normal people that still are in those places, if there are any left, as they look on without much of a say in anything (like with Bungie's racial exclusion clubs).

[Jordy]

Feel free to move to the tech general thread, but I thought it fits well here



"You’ll hear Hanneke talk about a concept called the “forever mouse,” or a mouse you buy once and upgrade over time with new software features — features that, of course, might carry a subscription fee. Subscription mice! It’s a lot."

Can't they just make mice that last forever like they used to? Every mouse I've had in the last 10 years either develops the double click issue or the scroll wheel issue.

I want to go back to when my mouse would break because I rage smashed it off the wall.