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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

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[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.