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Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK
(www.engadget.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Generally it's agreed the best way to stop piracy is by offering a more convenient alternative. I generally for example don't pirate video games available on Steam. With streaming services being so disjoint and expensive now I've gone back to pirating, at least with cable you can bundle channels.
I have towed this line for years. Recently Battlefield 2042 was available on steam for a great price so I snapped it up. I'd played it at release via a 1 month trial of EA play and it was absolute trash.
The game is totally fixed! The problem I have, is that I bought it on steam...and it forces me to install and keep myself logged in to the EA app anyway. It fails to launch the game every single time. I have to reboot my computer, manually log out of EA and log back in. It is an absolute shitfight, because EA gargle balls all day.
My point is, I bought the game on steam and I got absolutely duped. I'm all for a bigger library, but not if it means I have to install and use the other crappy apps anyway. Such a disappointment, I won't be so quick to buy on steam anymore unless they implement a great big flashing red warning that the game is not actually on steam at all.
They do put the warning when a game needs a 3rd party launcher tho?
Not big enough, red enough, or flashing enough. I like steam a lot. I don't like EA one little bit, or battlenet, or any of those other half-built apps.
Yeah, I get that stuff like that sucks. Funnily enough, I think it's a little better on Linux because the EA games app is incapable of running on Linux so Proton boots it just long enough to get the game working, and then it fades back into the background. While Linux gaming is still not perfect, that kind of thing is one of the reasons I prefer it over gaming on Windows.
I swore off buying games from companies like EA, and Ubisoft years ago. I'm still bitter about getting duped with Far Cry 3.