don't worry you can just subscribe to a PC that someone else owns for you ☺️ (he can also install and maintain it for you, and over time it'll display more ads)
I'm shocked about this too but I think it's hubris + the size of the market. Lots of dollars to be made, and so you get these slimy weasels with bland faces coming in, never having loved a game in their life, and coming to the conclusion:
Oh gamers just stare at a screen with colorful things? Hey we could just make it a shop front, where you can buy colors in the colorful screen but pay us real money.
Microsoft is clearly not making decisions to benefit the customer. The best they can do is accidentally benefiting customers every once in a while. It's simply not good enough, since Linux is literally made by customers with the express purpose to be the best for us. 😊
I did that when the Oblivion horse armor dropped and I felt strength and community in my little rural highschool of like-minded gamers that aligned on the "world we want to see".
fast forward 20 years. our sacrifice doesn't matter, companies run like big ocean trawlers and some retards will swim into the net and make it worth their while 😞
honestly it's inevitable if the whole industry is optimizing for "engagement". basically less games with more mtx. you didn't need many devs to create paypig slop
I dislike the attention stuff like this draws to piracy. I do quite like clowning on games that do this stupid early/late release to ruin the old-school launch day fun and make some kids aware that their parents are brokebois. These new business models just bring out the worst.
pointless in the age of direct storage and high SSD speeds.
if you've lived before that: corporate thanks you for patiently waiting while counting their unrealized gains and lost potential on spreadsheets and ppts
I think the nsa is not going to cast doubts over tor by leaking information from normal people or small fry criminals like pirates. and if you're a dissident from a different country than usa, it's probably also fine. I'm a lot more worried about the vpns that pay or own vpn review sites or have ties to surveillance companies
don't worry you can just subscribe to a PC that someone else owns for you ☺️ (he can also install and maintain it for you, and over time it'll display more ads)