Karlyr

Dude. I'm trying to make you realize a flaw in your thinking. If you cannot read that and learn, it tells more about you than me.

My goal is not, was not, will never be to reduce you. But, once again, you are turning that into a "you're insulting me". On that I'm really done.

Side note, if you didn't block me, then what happened to the original post ? Because all I see is "post blocked".

Was never a dick to you. I was trying to show a bit of hypocrisy in your initial post and try to inform you why it's problematic.

You took it as an insult and escalated things. I just hope you keep that interaction in mind in the future.

I find it funny that you had to come along before they decided to block me. Surround yourself with people challenging your ideas (until they start insulting you). That's the only way to learn more.

To be transparent, I muted them because they turned the interaction into a sparring match.

Yeah fair. But the sentiment of "they're greedy, but I'm still spending on it" is there. And that's the issue.

People need to realize, especially with digital goods, that your wallet speaks volumes compared to your words.

Bingo.
My problem with the original post was the "companies are dumb for doing this but I'm spending for the things they do haha"
If you identified the problem, then stop spending on it and/or start movements to pressure reps to regulate.
Also, you kinda need to be specific on the problematic parts

There's a difference between blame and innocence.

The world is a gray freaking mess. That part of companies is more black than white. But it's a legal entity. It does not know morals.

Hence why, if anything, you should blame a lack of laws surrounding that kind of spending.

I never said "companies are innocent". I agreed with you earlier. Putting words in my mouth here.

I said that there's no point blaming companies if you keep buying the things you are complaining about.

Oh absolutely. I just don't like the rhetoric that "companies are to blame" when they are doing what they're meant to do.

Regulations are the only thing that will change this issue.

To make a change in the world you need to first understand it. And companies won't have remorse if you keep spending

Because "blaming the greedy company" is not helping.

I trying to add clarity. You took it as an argument.

I'm not being aggro. I'm just pointing out flaws in that rhetoric. You cannot expect a legal entity whose whole goal is to make money to save you from giving them money.

So yeah blame the company... but don't sit on it and keep spending.

If you have so bad of a FOMO where you can't control yourself... I'd suggest seeking help.

If no one bought those DLC they'd either stop selling them, or bundle them in free upgrades or put more into the DLCs.

For microtransactions gallore, companies won't self regulate. You need someone to step it who has the population at heart (theoretically the government)

Extortion : Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit through coercion
Coerce :To pressure, intimidate, or force into doing something.

No one is forcing you to buy a DLC. Words have meaning. Be careful with them.

Yes they deserve shit for it. But why do they do it ? Because people pay for it.

A company is *made* to make money.
Companies will *never* be your friend.
If they are acting "friendly" it's because it ultimately shows on their bottom line.

If you don't like a system, don't interact with it. Don't give them money. Just avoid it.

I mean, historically it makes sense with the kitchen accord... Not really a holiday which we like to celebrate.

a man in a cowboy hat is featured on a poster for dirt man ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is featured on a poster for dirt man

Idk why. My brain went there

Welp. I missed that xD Rip. Worst selling game of the switch is already revealed xd

Yes. Thats my point. A paid for "tech demo". We don't have the full picture on Welcome tour. It could be worth a price.

And Nintendo Land was never free to my knowledge.

Yes and no. What we've seen in the trailer, charging for that is plain ridiculous. Bit Nintendo Land for the WiiU was considered a tech demo but it still was one of thr best party game of the console imho.

You can't be :
- The switch 2 is too pricey
When you were :
- The switch isn't up to par graphics wise

The irony is too big.

Also : "Steam deck is cheaper than switch 2"
Nobody is buying a Nintendo console to exclusively play PC released games. Also, a mouse built in and better graphics. See irony

Something that is missing from this story : This was in Montréal (Québec). The province that tries to separate from Canada TWICE. Y'all made Québécois proud to be Canadians.

Year has started a bit crazy...

Medical appointements coming left and right,
Job search on hyperdrive,
Rock climbing through all of that,
I kept doing a bit from the brickbreaker from Christmas.

So yeah... I still want to finish some videos I started... but I need time, a lot of it 😬

Backdoor D6 for LaS is a thing that exists xD

YouTube video by Karlyr My Christmas Plans. (24th and 25th of December)

youtu.be/Svr_rr8MssE

I said palkia, but reading the replies I'd love to think this is a shiny (pink) Ursaring. 🙃

In case you prefer twitch
www.twitch.tv/karlyr

Karlyr

Gonna have my first lonely Christmas. With all the video game layoffs, figured I might as well use this opportunity to make a brickbreaker in under 48h for a portfolio (Yes, I'll sleep. So stream might not be up all the way through. TBD)

TLDR; Game Dev stream for most of the 24 and 25th of December

I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it.

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With xDefiant closing down, it's hard for me not to see that having no SBMM was definitely part of the issue.

Bringing 15M players to play your game but not being able to retain enough to run the game for much more than a year... yes, Uplay is a factor and people go back to CoD but still.