Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.
I just hope and pray that when Gabe Newell decides to retire, he hands the reins for Valve off to someone like-minded.
A huge part of the reason PC gamers have it so good is because GabeN refuses to sell Valve (and by extension, Steam) and also wants to deliver the best product possible. He’s content with merely making lots of money, instead of trying to squeeze every last cent out of Steam at the storefronts expense.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For the love of all things holy, can you people, for once in your lives, oppose something on principle? This weak-ass justification, this “it ain’t that bad” shit is exactly why we end up with something far worse in a few years.
Please, I’m begging you, think forward. Develop some pattern recognition. Stop downplaying the minor things just to be contrarian and defend a billion dollar company.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 months ago
Youtube wasn't that bad when you could skip one 5 second ad as well.
syrooks@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I remember back when Hulu was free, and they gave you a choice of 1 ad watch at the beginning to “pay” for your video
KepBen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Principles are a luxury most people can’t afford. If I have to compromise mine just to survive, I might as well also compromise them to survive comfortably.
Tick_Dracy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Principles are a “luxiry” only for those pathetic and worthless enough to not have any principles worth fighting for.
You are seriously scum if having principles is a fucking paid feature. Your personality is trash. Get a refund from Microsoft.
ColonelSanders@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We have a HUGE Apathy epidemic right now, and it mostly affects younger people (Gen Z on down mostly but some younger millennials too). I think this is mostly because they were born too late to realize that things don’t actually have to be this way and could in fact be better if people just…tried. But they’ve been beaten down and had the phrase “that’s just how it is/always been” beaten into them so much that they just stopped caring.
mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 months ago
As someone who worked at GameStop long ago, when these pre-order bonuses started becoming cancerous, no, no they can’t. The number of people who bitched about them, or how every FIFA game is just the same game with a different roster, yet still bought them and stood outside for releases, was almost an overlapping circle.
Having integrity/principals requires abstaining, and that’s not how a be lot of people work, unfortunately.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Microsoft makes shit practices standard. They duped their user base into paying for p2p online multiplayer. And that became standard. All the people who said they don’t mind paying for literally nothing made it happen for everyone else on each platform.