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The fun never ends. Clearly xbox is failing so they are trying their hardest to extract as much money as possible from whoever still hasnt sold their console yet

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    It will work. Even if they get 10 new subscribers, it probably took them 20 minutes to whip up this splash screen. They’re wasting much more of your time. And people have proven time and time again that they will get outraged but they’ll never actually do anything about it.

    For now. But eventually they do. That’s how entire governments have fallen time and time again.

    They won’t stop playing Xbox. They won’t stop buying games. People grow increasingly accepting of advertising and invasive business practices every day.

    Indeed. People can get used to a lot. But being used to something isn’t the same as being ok with it. No-one I know is ok with there being ads on their tvs, phones and laptops. Living with something isn’t the same as accepting it. People are tolerating more BS than ever, but that doesn’t mean they wont rally the second there’s a way out of it.

    Remember how angry everyone was at horse armor? Most people wouldn’t think twice about it these days. It’s so much worse now.

    I still am. So are many others. Remember when people thought NMS would be a good game on day one? Remember when Fallout 76 was going to be bigger and better than 4? Remember Concord? Remember when Overwatch was going to have a story?

    Suicide Squad.

    There was real hype. The second people found out it was a live service, they simply didn’t play.

    Every fuckup, is another portion of the masses getting the memo. And the fuckups aren’t stopping. If anything there’s more of them than ever.

    These corporations used to be afraid of looking bad, but mistakes happen. Except when they did, and stocks didn’t suddenly implode, their takeaway was they could be horrible, and still make a profit. Because yeah, most people don’t learn the first time. But what about the second? Or the third? Or the tenth?

    If you ask me, given time, the one thing every person on this planet can do, is learn. Eventually.

    The only reason Roblox and Fortnite keep growing is that there are markets they haven’t penetrated. Finding new customers faster than the old ones leave doesn’t work forever. There are only so many humans on this planet.

    Meanwhile, indie games with actual passion behind them and fair business practices that still feed the mouths of the devs, without private equity firms in the middle sucking up all the value, are absolutely exploding.

    XBOX is dying. MS won’t say it, but they are less involved in the game-industry than ever. This price hike is a death-throw. Not the next step in their master plan to dominate the market forever.

    IMO, the only gaming mega-corporation with the goodwill to exist 20 years from now is Nintendo, and even they are burning through the nostalgia people have for them faster than ever before in their insanely long history.

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      8 hours ago

      But being used to something isn’t the same as being ok with it

      Doesn’t matter if they’re okay with it or not, as long as they tolerate it and don’t do anything about it.

      I still am. So are many others.

      Sure but many many more have accepted it. Otherwise they never would have done it again.

      Remember Concord?

      Concord clearly had much bigger problems.

      Remember when Overwatch was going to have a story?

      I remember Overwatch still being a wild success regardless.

      But what about the second? Or the third? Or the tenth?

      We are on like 2905295734th now.

      Meanwhile, indie games with actual passion behind them

      Indie game studios could only ever dream of achieving the heights of revenue of games like Fortnite, that survives entirely on microtransactions.

      the only gaming mega-corporation with the goodwill to exist 20 years from now is Nintendo

      They are doing everything they can to screw their own customers and yet they pile in by the millions every time they have something new.

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        Doesn’t matter if they’re okay with it or not, as long as they tolerate it and don’t do anything about it.

        Not being happy about it is the first step on the road to doing something about it. How does that not matter?

        Sure but many many more have accepted it. Otherwise they never would have done it again.

        Who is doing it again? I’m not.

        I remember Overwatch still being a wild success regardless.

        Is it?

        We are on like 2905295734th now.

        And? It takes as many times as it takes.

        Indie game studios could only ever dream of achieving the heights of revenue of games like Fortnite, that survives entirely on microtransactions.

        Why? There are absolutely indies who’ve made millions. Why is there zero chance that one day, the next Fortnite or Roblox comes from an indie?

        It already happened at least once. Minecraft.

        They are doing everything they can to screw their own customers and yet they pile in by the millions every time they have something new.

        Yes. But again. It takes as many times as it takes.

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          7 hours ago

          You continue to view everything through your personal lens while turning a blind eye to the mountains of other people who don’t care. There are no amount of times before people will walk away en masse. That much is abundantly clear at this point.

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            7 hours ago

            while turning a blind eye to the mountains of other people who don’t care

            People, fundamentally, care.

            That’s like the whole point of having a hobby.

            No-one games because they don’t care.

            You won’t find anything people are more passionate about, than something they do for fun.

            I’m not claiming that there’s some point where people magically come together and stick it to the megacorps.

            I’m saying that if you consistently burn your fans in ways that result in them hating you, eventually, you wont have any.

            That’s not something that happens overnight. A slow-ass process that leads to a gradual decline, which you can only put off by duping brand new people who haven’t sworn off ever purchasing your product again. But eventually, you run out of those, too.