Imagine if you weren't allowed to watch your favorite movies from the 80's or earlier unless you managed to have a still working VCR and VHS copy from your childhood. No Goonies, no Godfather, no Star Wars original trilogy. They decided to wipe these films from the face of the earth so that you could no longer enjoy them and had to go buy their new movies, exclusively, if you wanted entertainment from a film. That's what games publishers are trying to do, so they don't have to compete for you attention with older classics.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's just bonkers to me because they do everything for profit anyway; what the fuck profit do they get from not selling shit anymore? I said this not long ago about Nintendo, but other companies are guilty of it too. Spending money attempting to stop piracy, instead of making money by just giving customers what they fucking want. What crazy company secrets are they hiding that not continuing to sell a product is better than selling it?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago

It's like a toxic romantic partner: if I can't make a lot of money doing this one thing, then no one can.

Come to think of it, a lot of late stage capitalism behavior is like a toxic partner.

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