Will it work this time? We’ll see

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    But it’s the start of the slippery slope, and having a mindset like yours where it’s more or less “wait until it happens then attempt to do something” is what allows shit like this to happen.

    It’s better to prevent it all together than it is to slowly accept the enshittification of what are, ultimately, passion projects or things people do for fun.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly. There’s assloads of precedent that if you allow a single company to normalize this crap, it’ll be an industry wide thing within 5 years.

      It happened with paid DLC, it happened with Microtransactions in full price games, it happened with pre-sales, it happened with subscription fees and season passes in full price games.

      People keep pulling this “bwah, it won’t be so bad”, for it to get 10x worse than anything we expected.