jackfrost

@jackfrost@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful, most cheap NVMe drives have low endurance. Llike, not “Oh, you’re just hand wringing about nothing,” endurance ratings but an actually and relevantly low number of terabytes that can be written before the drive becomes failure-prone. They also usually lack a DRAM cache, so certain operations can be as slow as a mechanical hard drive, thereby negating the major advantage of opting for solid-state storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like someone is in denial…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such an absurd distortion of the evidence I have provided that you surely have a vested interest in trying to gaslight people about a standard business operation.

  Spoiler: The gaslighting isn’t working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would that be considered outrageous?

  This has been reported on for years.

  Example 1, Example 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I don’t follow. What did I say that would be considered an outrageous claim?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saddened by the phenomenon because there’s plenty of evidence that the audiences for these most of these games hate the experience, but they can’t stop playing because they’ve become victims of predatory psychological tactics designed to keep them addicted and their wallets wide open. These publishers and studios literally hire psychologists who specialize in generating this addiction, using models optimized to prey on their own users as much as humanly possible. It’s sickening. The sports games are especially shameless about this. Ruining people’s finances and their core sense of financial responsibility to fatten their pockets. I don’t know how they sleep at night. Sociopaths, the lot of them.