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this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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In my experience a significant portion of Lemmy lives in a fantasy world and really doesnt like this being pointed out.
Take videogames for example, if you were yo ask me what Lemmy thinks about videogames... "AAA devs should only release games they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into making once they are absolutely finished and bug free with no expensive future DLCs or microtransactions, absolutely no ongoing subscription costs for the absolute minimum price they think they can sell it for and not go out of business but it should also be DRM free and nobody should buy it anyway because its digital and you shouldnt feel bad downloading it for free because it doesnt cost money to make another digital copy its just corporate greed."
God help you if you dont agree. I too would like to live in a post scarcity communist utopia, but we dont.
You mean Star Trek?
Its a better example than anything else.
Honestly I think it's a lot more complicated and nuanced regarding this here than reddit. When I was a wee lad, I yo-ho-ho some sweet software and games via bbs's but mostly went legit as I aged. I don't think there's more piracy justification here than reddit, but also, I think we're in a 'golden-shower-age' of enshitiffication where services paid for won't be rendered and that, justifiably, moves the sentiment.
That said, as a game dev, I don't think people are asking for your proposed argument overwhelmingly - they just want AAA devs to treat their paying userbase better. Some of those considerations are unrealistic, but often they're justified.
I'm finding Lemmy's audience to be very similar to 2008 reddit, it's not perfect, but it's better than current day reddit and I thank the lemmy creators for having a viable alternative.
FUCK SPEZ.
I raised the issue that if you want companies like CDPR or Bethesda to keep aiming high and investing 300+ million dollars you have to expect them to try and make their money back as soon as possible or as much as possible over time. 300 million is a HUGE gamble, especially on a video game. So they might rush to launch because the budget is running out, or the game wont be great until it has 2 or 3 expansions or at least a few large patches admittedly I have less sympathy for microtransactions or subscriptions but then thats on the players if they want to support that.
If they are really aiming for groundbreaking, massive, revolutionary... the gaming community needs to tone down the immediate rhetoric or we will just see more and more recycled "it always makes money" Marvel movie type shit.Madden77, Halo 26 and Battlefield 63...