My decision to stop playing online games a few years ago continues to prove that it was a good choice. The games industry in general is going to shit but online games in particular are in race to the bottom of greed, malice, and contempt.
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My decision to stop playing online games a few years ago continues to prove that it was a good choice. The games industry in general is going to shit but online games in particular are in race to the bottom of greed, malice, and contempt.
Steam needs to offer refunds when a game does this - at the publisher’s expense. They should put it right into their ToS for game publishers that want to sell on the platform.
Amount of people surprised by this:
Reminder #891,814 to stop using Chrome and Chromium browsers and to stop supporting Google’s web monopoly.
Almost nothing. I don’t like how loud they are.
Used to a lot, but use dropped off a lot as I started to work more. I do use it often when I travel… but I don’t actually travel much at all. It was free (game awards) so I’m not too upset over that. Maybe I’ll look into getting some of my old childhood favourites running on it as a challenge project.
I wish I could make useless trash and be given unfathomable amounts of money by infinitely gullible investors.
In this day and age, a bunch of processor and camera specs does nothing for me. I want to see what they plan to do with the UI and OS as a whole. Will it just be a lazy Android skin or will they go the extra mile and make it look and feel like a Windows phone of old?
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W11 is such a great example of how out-of-touch Microsoft’s management and shareholders are. Its market share is tiny compared to W10 and is actively decreasing and they think pulling stunts like this is going to be beneficial in some way. Like even if you follow the usual routine of enshittification, they’ve missed the entire part where they expand their userbase first before making things worse.
MS needs a leadership shakeup so badly.
I am so very tired of every company nonsensically shoehorning “AI” into their software to appease shareholders and investors. Discord shut down their AI chatbot in less than a year – take notes from that.
Games that change their terms post-sale should present the customer the option for an automatic no-questions-asked refund. Leaving the customer with the options: Agree, Decline, Refund.