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Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"volatility of access" implies a lack of intent.

This isn't a side effect of streaming technology, they could let me download content on my NAS and burn my own discs but they don't because their goal is profiteering and NOT serving the best content in an open technological environments.

"Corporate enshittification and commodity fraud" is a more apt term.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Fraud" would imply a crime. I'm always happy when some european country has a law on the book that enables people to hold a company accountable for their shitty behavior, but in the US, we have some work to do there.

"Enshittification" is a...surface-level description of what is happening. I'm more interested in the "how we got here" and "what needs to happen to prevent it". Because no company has "make the experience objectively shittier" on their list of new features. Blaming "enshittification" holds as much weight to me as blaming "the deep state". It's not a real thing, it's just how you perceive the emergent result of a system with certain rules and incentives. The real question is, which rules and incentives should we prioritize, and how can those changes most effectively be implemented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not blaming "enshittification". This IS enshittification.

I blame shareholders and greedy C level executives. You know, the ones who make these types of decisions to milk customers for the bottom line.

Just move on if you want to debate, these are facts and I don't have time to defend reality from your contrarian garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think we agree and could learn from each other, but I agree, I don't think that's in the cards here. Have a good one.