I feel like we have had COLD DAYS. But 21 and 22 were wfh for almost everyone who could afford an EV.
Deadend
joined 5 years ago
That picture looks so uncomfortable.
It’s weird that it has taken until this year’s cold days for this to pop up. As its always been a concern of mine.
Seals do not lie.
Sea lions do.
Isn’t getting onto boats and swimming a core skill for SEALs? Alongside eating clams?
Because I’m a fed.
Other companies figured out how to do streaming faster than Netflix expected. Hell, Hulu started same year as Netflix.
Still was the premise Netflix was operating under.
- Disrupt a industry/business model by doing something different (or illegal like Uber)
- Spend a lot of money on growth (subsidized ride costs, ads, features)
- Run competition to death (taxis)
- Jack up prices when there are no choices left! (Cabs are coming back, other Uber-likes can still exist and undercut Uber and make a profit.)
Streaming tv is so split because there is no reason to not make your own app. The only stupid things were the ridiculous number of “exclusives”.
But movies and TV shows have much better preservation of history than games. Despite globally a lot of movie industries having poor preservation due to costs. Every game that released on PC should be preserved and playable in some form, but many aren’t due to DRM and client/server setups (you can’t play ff14 -original).
Rental-only /subscription works for games as a Service - as in the concept that games are a Service/product, not for games as art.
As services aren’t art, and can go away. Art should be shared.
Yeah. Everyone is doing the Netflix.
- Undercharge
- Run competition out of business
- Become monopoly
- Jack up prices to where it’s profitable
It’s going bad for everyone trying it as it’s taking too long to work.
I’m generally “done” with their games pretty quickly. So a 1 month Ubisoft + subscription when I have an urge for one or more of their games works for me.
I also find the rental model to be more honest than “you’re buying a limited license that lasts forever or until we say it doesn’t”.
As even a lot of games on disc aren’t fully on the disc.
It sucks for preservation. I also don’t understand how it’s remotely profitable based on the subscription price and how much it costs to make games.
Only concern is potentially getting banned on the account later.
The Dreamcast was wild.
Berserk came out as a stand alone game with no context.