Who will win?
One million angry gamers, or one little bribey boy?
We shall see.
I don’t like Adobe, but you have to understand that their business is not selling software, it’s keeping people locked into their platform.
A rival being free matter not a jot when you’ve got decades of work in Adobe formats, and no end of experience with Adobe software. Especially when the company is paying for it all anyway.
The more time goes on, the more I think Sony’s approach of adding games after a year or so was the right one.
You can’t have a subscription service giving day one access to all your content, and provide good content, and have it at a reasonable price. Something has to give. Even when you’ve got as much money as Microsoft.
The glorious cloud gaming future they envisaged never happened. You’re still limited to people willing to shell out for some gaming hardware.
I don’t care that Steam has an effective monopoly on digital games. That’s fine. Games can and are on many other services for PC, but gamers want them on Steam. Fine. Whatever. You can even buy games from other services, get Steam codes, and use them as if you got them from Steam, even though Steam get no money from that sale. That’s amazing. Really.
But.
They killed the idea that you can own a PC game. I mean legally own it, be able to sell your copy of it to another person, and no longer have it yourself. You could do that with physical. You still can with physical console games. But on PC that concept is dead. It’s not coming back. And Valve did that. You now just rent them. Fine, you think, Valve isn’t going anywhere. But one day Valve will be gone, and this will matter. No king rules forever.
And the least said about lootboxes and hats and all that scummy crap the better.
Horrific, but still more lifelike than the real Zuck.
Two bits of security software.
Makes me wonder if there’s been a concerted effort to hack these accounts, and some automated security process has locked them out.
Ubisoft is French. Embracer Group is Swedish. Plenty of money even if they ignore the Americans or Saudis or whichever shady group owns EA now.