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haui_lemmy

@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com

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haui_lemmy,

This is market manipulation at its best. The whole board should be jailed for it.

haui_lemmy,

Important addition: the majority of people isnt equipped for this kind of game. Patience and ability to grasp this kind of thing is what makes the computer nerds the computer nerds.

Programming and sysadmin stuff isnt really popular either for that express reason.

haui_lemmy,

Please make sure that they also refund you the interest on the money. Although preordering games is pretty lame imo, companies should be punished for going back on preorders, better yet have to make it work no holds barred.

haui_lemmy,

Honestly, it think thats a really good idea. Proprietary consoles are a relict and its great if they go away and get replaced by open platforms like the steamdeck and steam machines (not necessarily affiliated with valve though).

haui_lemmy,

Fully agree. I would even outlaw the walled garden concept completely. I would necessitate interconnecting APIs for everything. So that I can call apples app store over their api from any machine for example.

If someone comes up with an example that overburdens a company, they need to allow others to make such tools for free.

Also, i would outlaw any fee on things that cant be explained logically. Like apple tax for example.

Same obviously goes for consoles.

haui_lemmy,

Amen

haui_lemmy,

If we only were allowed to do anything else than prepare for work (school), work and prepare for death (retirement for normal people).

But obviously the people need cheap toys that break asap so they can buy new cheap toys and we need to produce, sell, transport and plan them.

haui_lemmy,

I feel like we‘re not seeing/talking about the reason the console market is another duopoly. Its a harsh failure on cartel prevention laws imo. New consoles should pop up here and there yet they dont (very small opening for steamseck likes). Its not a healthy market.

At first glance I think the IP laws are the problem here. A new console should be able to run xbox games and/or ps5 games and compete on hardware and ergonomics alone imo. That way the competition would drive prices down and decisions would again be for improving the service, not the bottom line.

Disclaimer: trolls will be blocked immediately.

haui_lemmy,

This is a rough post because neither did you provide alt text for these non mobile friendly pictures nor did you put any emphasis or mention what you actually are trying to say or ask.

From what I have gathered after readin through it, US citizens are being asked to waive their rights to class actions or any form of jury trial for any reason whatsoever.

This absolutely is reason to boycott them and make a giant fuss about it but I would ask that you or someone makes this a lot easier to grasp in like 15 seconds so peeps dont just scroll over it.

Good luck and have a nice day.

haui_lemmy,

You very much need to be in the US for this (or another capitalist hellscape). Reason being that this is illegal in europe.

They need to do this. They choose to so they cant be sued for using dark patterns most likely.

These companies need to be shut down. They’re pure evil at this point.

haui_lemmy,

Got it. Thanks for adding the info.

haui_lemmy,

You mean the few places in the whole of europe? :)

haui_lemmy,

The narcissist prayer

haui_lemmy,

if you want to own/keep owning stuff, consider supporting with the push of a button.

Stopkillinggames is trying to change this in a huge effort spearheaded by one stubborn individual.

haui_lemmy,

Lets goooo! :)

haui_lemmy,

There definitely should be. And folks who read this (sadly only those outside the US) should act immediately.

Edit: Thinking about it, you might wanna have a look at !anticorporate.

haui_lemmy,

I sincerely hope walled garden consoles all go the way of the dreamcast. We‘re seeing huge advantages in small set top box style computers with plug and play functionality.

The most important part is you actually own the device which means you can put any OS on it, write your own apps and customize and use it however you like for however long you want.

haui_lemmy,

Awesome videos! Especially german and french citizens should go wild with this since we have the strongest consumer protection. They even give you a tutorial for your specific country and situation.

You do not need to own the crew for this.

haui_lemmy,

CS2 is infintely worse imo than CS:GO. Yes, the maps got updated but local multiplayer works way worse and the bots are a laughable mess. Took me days to get working properly on debian too.

haui_lemmy,

The World Health Organization recognizes videogame addiction as a disorder, and the American Psychiatric Association says that the question of whether or not videogames can be addictive is “still being debated,” but that "early evidence suggests that videogames are one of the most addicting technologies around

Its clear that games can be addictive and the concept of „whale fishing“ is openly discussed in terms of game design. Obviously, the weakest of us in terms of addiction make the standard because its those who are harmed.

Obviously, cash shops should be banned in games immediately.

haui_lemmy,

and you think this is the only way or what gave you the intention this is a helpful response?

haui_lemmy,

Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behaviour that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.

If you employ psychologists and other specialists to design something for maximum retention, you‘re not making something „entertaining“, you‘re tricking the brain into a loop.

We could discuss this endlessly but suffice it to say that there are techniques for retention that dont make an experience necessarily better but more captivating. Infinite scrolling is a very simple example. i bet some game designers could shine a pretty bright light on this if they stumble across this thread.

I could abstract this to the real world like so: two people can speak exactly the same text but one cares if their audience is getting tired and stops, the other one speaks a little louder and turns on some more lights. I‘m pretty sure you will get a significantly longer retention despite the quality being the exact same.

And this is why methods for retention need to be carefully screened and regulated.

haui_lemmy,

You can disagree. That doesnt make it invalid. Also, the point I‘m making still stands.

haui_lemmy,

I dont like you stating things as if they were an objective truth. It is your opinion that infinite scrolling is “good” or whatever you wanted to say. But it is a retention method and not just a QoL feature. There are articles explaining this and some websites have expressly disabled it because it leads to problems for people who are vulnerable.

haui_lemmy,

I feel like this is much too rare of a statement. No idea why people dont get this. It’s like talking to children sometimes.

haui_lemmy,

I agree fully. Its disgusting. People literally drinking the cool aid. Can I ask you something weird? I feel like making a counterweight (like political movements, eg the fedipact) would actually help.

Like a movement with a name and a written agenda so we dont have to repeat ourselves all the time. The idea is that we identify games with exploitative mechanics, dont buy them and call out the makers.

Its incredibly easy to put a link in a comment under a post hyping such a game to counter it. The more we push this, the more people will follow. We could then start sending open letters (per email) to game studios where people sign this.

We might he able to change this shit. Would you like to help? I‘d draft up something and we can make posts to gather an initial group of people.

Those are just ideas but it works wonders in other topics so why not try? Feel free to dm me if you want to discuss this.

haui_lemmy,

You can see from the downvotes that you‘re being trolly but not fun.

I guess we just agree to disagree and go our seperate ways now.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy,

The drug war in the US - same as any other war - imo was profit seeking of the military industrial complex, incarceration industry and power shifting away from the people, nothing else.

It is not the drugs you need to outlaw, it is the living conditions. The reason nobody gets a handle on drugs is because there is homelessness and injustice galore. Countries around the world have very different approaches to this and they mostly work better than the US solution of mass incarceration.

Corporations designing things for user retention instead of fun is hard to see for people without professional background in marketing sometimes. These things are giving you a way of influencing the subconcious, avoiding the concious in the process. This manipulation is why gambling is outlawed for kids, not the money aspect.

haui_lemmy,

I agree that it is important that addicts need help. But having unrestricted gambling is not that. Its why even in countries that allow gambling, it is highly restricted. Were moving in a circle now. Maybe we need to agree to disagree here.

haui_lemmy,

I can live with that. I agree with you there. Have a great day! :)

haui_lemmy,

I exclusively watch gameranx and gamers nexus for gaming news. They‘re in depth, fun and not trying to sell you stuff imo.

I might stop watching them if something like that popped up on peertube but so far I‘m out of luck.

The linux project used to upload to peertube but the space requirement is brutal so I relate to issues with that but I‘m still sad that he stopped.

haui_lemmy,

Maybe he needed a tax writeoff to avoid paying some taxes?

haui_lemmy,

Piracy until layoffs mean the company makes a loss and the C suite doesnt get paid at all

Also

Pirate any game that has gambling mechanics paid with cash forever

haui_lemmy,

I‘m just going to repeat myself under every post that mentions this dystopian shit:

Everything to save the broken IP model.

haui_lemmy,

Because piracy is a service issue. A jokingly small amount of people actually pirate and they are not actual customers to the publisher/developer. Companies need to learn hat constant growth is only normal in tumors.

haui_lemmy,

IP laws should make it easy for up and coming inventors and should make it progressively harder to extract large amounts of money from „small“ inventions.

Example: the recipe for most medicines is known and its not hard to produce these. Yet pharma companies extract billions from the sick and dying. Thats disgusting and entirely IP laws fault.

„Service issue“ means that it is easier to pirate than to get a fair deal. Pc games you bought being considered the vendors „property“ for example is a service issue. If a company decides to steal stuff I own, I will take it back by force if necessary. They shouldnt have used dirty marketing and I dont care that they bought the law.

haui_lemmy,

Well, before you failed to see other things.

Denuvo software is from what I hear a rather pathetic attempt at securing the revenue stream of these giant companies, taking into account massive performance loss. It also makes legitimate attempts at backing up one‘s purchased goods to keep them from being „legally disowned“.

haui_lemmy,

Everyting to safeguard the broken IP system.

haui_lemmy,

I found a troll! Nice.

I‘m saying the IP system is broken and more drm isnt the solution, shocker I know.

We need to break up giant companies (999 mil+) and we will break up ip trolls as well.

haui_lemmy,

Those who can afford it might want to buy something open source instead: shop.simulavr.com

Not affiliated with the product. Its linux based and not a walled garden afaik. In 5 yrs when sony drops support for the headset, you can still use this one.

haui_lemmy,

Feel free to invent one I guess. I think we‘re basically in the same ballpark with that as we are with phones. Nicht qualifications needed and only proprietary players so far. Someone correct me if needed pls.

haui_lemmy,

I think we‘re the same person! :D

Jokes aside, I wholeheartedly agree. 500 hrs in factorio but rw and dsp are awesome. Mc used to be. I like mineclone though.

Hit me up if you wanna play something together some time.

haui_lemmy,

I recently bought stardew valley and its fun but the farming grind feels kinda forced, no? I feel like I need to pay attention to not loose myself in the game which defeats the purpose.

What is your experience there?

haui_lemmy,

Got it. Thanks for chiming in.

I can imagine it gets better but the grind is kind of not for me. The mining and farming grind in minecraft I understand and the grind in factorio as well. Maybe its heightened due to the saving cycle that seems to want you to keep going.

haui_lemmy,

Can relate. It’s the same for me but I have to constantly remind myself of the fact which is why I cant relax, sadly.

haui_lemmy,

Neat, thanks for the info.

haui_lemmy,

Smooth! :)

haui_lemmy,

X4 is a great game and definitely underrated imo.

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