I’m Gen-X, but I don’t play games at all, and I pirate everything I watch (which isn’t much)
When I hear about people buying a game, and then having to pay for some subscription, or to fully utilise the features, I can totally understand people refusing to buy into the bullshit
Ha, my first reaction to this title was “What, is the other half sailing the seven seas for shows?”
Hell I’m a millennial, and I bounce around music streaming services all the time. They all offer more or less the same thing, and overcharge like hell for it. Spotify will send me a trial for like $5 for 3 months or something, I’ll sign up and set a reminder to cancel in 3 months, Amazon music will send me something similar, I’ll do that, YouTube premium will send me an offer and I’ll go there. Worst case I’ll have to deal with shitty ads for a while in between offers, but I’d say 10/12 months a year I’ve got some kind of premium service going for a fraction of the advertised cost. I know that their goal is to get me hooked and paying monthly for their shit, but I’m on top of it enough to not ever let them. Fuck the shareholders. I’m looking out for me.
“People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company”
FTFY
The second to last time i bought DLC at launch was the assassins creed game in colonial america, which was a waste of money. Then Starfield came out and you could play it a weekend early if you bought DLC, another scam. It is so much more fun to buy an indy game in alpha and get an update every few months from someone isnt a whore for share holders.
Teddy’s Haven (a cozy little shopkeeper game) has received updates almost every week. It’s by one person, and it’s in honor of his pet. It’s been awesome seeing updates, QOL tweaks, and even fishing get added to the game in 7-day stints.
Things get too expensive and people who don’t have the extra cash will find a way to spend less, or not at all. Remember this, all of you shareholders, if you price the customers out of buying your product then you’ve only screwed yourselves and your greed is to blame. What is wrong with a standard, healthy 10% profit?
They should learn how to sail the high seas
Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.
They have no money, and they’re going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.
I wouldn’t be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.
Funny way of saying “half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap”. And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.
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Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn’t do a lot for moral, or our finances.
Nevermind that there’s a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that’s jacking up the cost of everything right now.
Being an elder Gen Z (1998) adds a special layer to this cuz I’m pushing 30, running an open-source OS everywhere I can and I’m indirectly being called an iPad baby lmao
I cannot upvote a paywalled source
yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall
Firefox’s Reader View works for me.
People will do just about anything but use Firefox. Whatever, I love Firefox + Ublock Origin. I cannot imagine being a chump and rawdogging the internet will all the ads and bullshit.
I haven’t seen an ad in 3 years, and I haven’t wanted to see one once in that timeframe.
Go ahead and check out what shows up on the Edge start page when you first launch it on a new profile/fresh Windows install. Pay close attention to specifically which shortcuts and news stories they present to you by default.
Sir, I’m a dork. I have used neither Windows nor Edge in, well ever. I switched before Edge was even created.
I only use windows at work, and only when I really have to. The other day I had to use a new fresh VM and I had some…concerns…over the “default” choices.
Noscript too!
And these services are mad cause it’s so cheap for us to do that. Subscribe when the full seasons are out, binge watch what you want, leave.
Surprised it’s not 100% the high seas like myself.
If I had to guess 90% of people these days can barely figure out how to torrent, at best they could figure out how to get to online streaming sites.
“these days”. Man I’m not sure there’s ever been an era where a significant portion of people understood how to torrent.
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