Other than envy, why should you care that someone is making more, a lot more, than you? If you are doing better than before, for the same effort, that's awesome! Absolute poverty is dropping like a stone, even without government help, because by specialization and trade, we're all incentivized to do what works best in our own individual circumstances. Relative poverty, which is what you're railing on about, will only seem to go away in communism, which of course it won't because everyone except the leaders will be poor (think USSR, GDR, Cuba, North Korea): putting in the effort to become much more productive than others without reward gets old fast.
Your whole post reads like an uneducated screed.... perhaps you should actually know how the world works before you open your mouth. The world you talk about has never existed. AKA the rich do not simply get rich by productivity, they buy politicians and get policies to favor themselves. They have power to reshape the political and economic environment in which everyone exists. I've watched for the last 20 years as big mega corporations (aka the rich) have stolen PC games out from under us because the internet undermines the publics ability to hold companies accountable. You're not going to hold a company accountable when they are 100 miles away from you.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
I too started feeling pitchforky when I read the summary. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of psychopathic malfeasance at the top levels of the economy and government. But, we need to understand what's going on, in order to fairly and justly address it, in order to provide the greatest standard of living for the most people.
You should feel more pitchforky because the top is way out of sight.
You mean the creeps that want to backdoor everything and compromise all security in order to be able to listen to and record everything? Fat chance. These people will only make everything worse.
Bruce Schneier has an irrational trust in authority. He really should know better by now.
Everyones under the naive idea the government is not owned by the same people in the private sector promoting IoT. The reality is all governments are now at war with their respective publics because they are concerned about the global political awakening.
... a good example was what happened to videogames for the last 20 years. The entire industry once high speed internet was everywhere was literally able to steal game software and hold it back on their servers because the average person did not have the "common sense" that corporations will do anything to make a buck including try to take the software you are paying for away from you in order to charge you more.
It is... Nintendo basically is an insular company, for instance starfox wouldn't have died as a property if they'd given it to Voltion (the people who made freespace 1 and 2) see below...
Basically Team voltion/descent has been rotting for 20 years as Miyamoto and company have fucked the pooch on starfox franchise, even though that team is probably the best space combat making game on the planet. Nintendo not having a general understanding of what it means to be a gamer that games on all platforms has passed up opportunity after opportunity to get western devs to make good use of their IP's.
Nintendo's japanese teams never made a good transition to the HD era, all of there games have suffered quality issues outside of maybe mario and kart and Smash brothers.
Another big mistake was not getting Team Vigil (of darksiders 1 fame) to do a Zelda game. Even though darksiders 1 is better than all the zelda games Nintendo made outside of maybe latter half of windwaker.
Yes we are, you have to understand the nature of the class system is toxic for many kids being raised at the bottom of capitalist society, capitalist societies goal is to manufacture ignorant poorly politically educated workers and professionals.
In fact if you read Oswalds spenglers decline of the west, his theory is that civilizations rise and fall based on their own internal dynamics and there comes a point in every civilizations life that the slave classes no longer recognize they are slaves and get eaten by their upper classes - aka the corruption exists because of the mass stupidity of the slave classes.
you'd have to be physically two blocks from their offices for your outrage to have any effect.
Huh? Since when do purchase decisions have to be made 2 blocks from a company's office?
You're not getting that before the internet existed they physically had to give you the entire software in order to get paid, you have no ability to influence their behavior via purchasing because they can always find a bunch of uninformed people to sustain themselves. The elite market participants can protect everyone else if there was some way to hold the company accountable (aka storming their offices). In reality since their customers are 100's of miles away, merely "not buying" from a company does not work. I'll give you an example from videogames...
What does a 40 year old and a 15 year old have in common in terms of their awareness and buying habits? AKA nothing. If you're going to tell an informed audience that kids and their idiot parents are going to not buy games for their teens for christmas/birthday/whatever. I got a bridge I want to sell ya. Most people who are purchasing things have no idea how they work, they are not qualified to be market participants. The brain did not evolve to live in a free market society so you get these bad outcomes where corporate lawlesness gets accepted because of the ass backward nature of how the human mind is constructed. It's not in your interest to buy broken products or fraudulently made ones. But companies hire a bunch of scientists to manipulate people via advertising. The average person is not equipped to make sensible decisions in a high tech society.
There's no real outrage - people still keep buying the accursed thing in massive numbers.
The free market cannot exist in an internet enabled society, you'd need physical proximity to these companies to have any accountability at all. That's the reason software companies have basically invaded everyones privacy and personal space, you'd have to be physically two blocks from their offices for your outrage to have any effect. It's not that those mad angry people aren't there, it's that there is always a portion of the population that is perpetually ignorant and stupid for corporations to develop an in with, thereby causing collapse of the rest because you'd need to be able to co-ordinate.
The free market fairy never existed, the human mind did not evolve to make rational decisions in a high tech capitalist society and we're seeing the result - total loss of freedom because the average consumer is a tech illiterate moron.
I have no idea what you're talking about regarding videogames. Could you give some specific case?
In the 90's, pre internet, game companies had to give you all the files - the complete software when you bought a game. So in the late 90's CEO's came up with a fraudulent scheme to get naive and irrational public used to the idea of buying games you don't own or control because they knew most people were computer illiterate. Like how they took Ultima rpg's in development and reballed them Ultima online, to get the subscription money, aka paying monthly for a game you never own. MMO's were the plot to take regular PC rpg's and move them out of gamers hands and into the control of developers/publishers, now this couldn't happen without the internet. Where they chop up the software into two chunks and only give you one piece.
Good examples are diablo 2 vs diablo 3, diablo 2 you fully control the single+multiplayer on a machine, aka if blizzard ever goes out of business you can still play the campaign and the multiplayer with friends. Diablo 3 PC is fully controlled by blizzard with bizarre streaming tech that introduced single player lag because of authentication checks. Any game where you have to "login" = you don't own it, means your being taken for a ride. AKA they can pull the plug at any time and your software goes bye bye, even though you paid for it. So before high speed internet penetration was everywhere you got complete games after they are basically committing fraud by producing games in a hostile manner, they got with this because customers are 100's of miles away. AKA the internet made it trivial to steal software by simply NOT releasing the whole software and keeping a part of it on corporate computers inside their offices.
If a company hasn't done something wrong, the government has no business doing anything to them.
Sorry to burst your bubble but companies can get around the law or engage in lawless behavior before policies of the state can catch up leading to all sorts of disasters. Right now technology has undermined american dogma's like accountability in markets. The videogame industry being a prime example, the internet allowed US videogame companies to steal videogame software because their customers cannot reach these companies. So they can forcibly defraud users without their consent because users would need physical closeness to the business to have any market power at all. So the internet has created total market failure in videogames since customers have zero power to influence the behavior of these companies.
New terminology is going to have to be invented for what the internet has done to society and it takes a while to do the necessary research. Old free market ideology does not describe what is happening in society anymore, that's the reality on the ground.
" vehemently defend censorship by private corporations. " - I thought you liked the free market? No? Conservatives change your tiny minds every 4 years anyway, now you're on the Trump wagon, next year it's back to deficit spending...
If you weren't such unabridged liars the waking world might take you seriously instead of roasting marshmallows over the fire of your corpse, as we collectively do.
You haven't made any sense, what is it that you believe? The reality is the oligarchs and the rich are at war with regular people, and if you don't understand that you don't understand politics at all.
It's funny that that people in tech (and by extension largely on the left, politically) vehemently defend censorship by private corporations. This would not have even been a thing just three years ago. Now the shoe in on the other foot and they're great defenders of corporate rights.
You're pretty much brain damaged, the entire corporate world has got you and most of the public so distracted while they perfect manipulating your mind via algoritms and clickbait sjw outrage your freedoms are already infringed upon and gone away if you had been paying attention for the last 200 years...
Man, google is really stepping in it hard as of late
That's because you are all unaware all states are at war with their respective publics because they fear the internets potential to politically awaken the publics of the globe. See here by former national security advisor, this is just rich capitalist oligarchs and powers that be doing everything they can to maintain control over the public minds of the planet.
I hear it again and again, and no one ever seems to notice themselves re-hashing the same tired old pining for a glorious past that never was,.
I'll give you a damn good one - owning and controlling fucking software, the degree with which new generations have bent over for videogame companies and operating system companies defies belief. AKA software as a service where you don't control or own the shit you pay for and are spied on constantly. The new kids have fucked over the freedom to own and tinker with your own machine. So yes there definitely was a better time in the 90's before software companies could simply steal software made push button easy by stupid half of humanity getting a high speed internet connection. Most of the public is tech illiterate and that has huge consequences in an internet enabled age where mass spying, data harvesting and PC software freedom are being given away by newer generations and their idiot parents.
I never thought PC gaming would become a fucking idiocracy where it devolves into corporate feudalism where no one has any rights to own or control the shit they are paying for, level editing is massively curtailed and their is microtransactions and fucking gambling everywhere.
Being anti-social and lacking empathy doesn't make you a better coder, it makes you an asshole.
Tech people aren't being assholes, they understand project entropy, aka any project tends to lose momentum and vision over time. So the people who care most strongly about linux would indeed appear to be "assholes" because they are engineers and technicaly people. People don't get angry or passionate about things they don't give a damn about.
The problem isn't empathy it's amateur contributors or new professionals not understanding things tend to fall apart. AKA managing large projects is hard exhausting work and you don't want contributions from people who aren't going to put in their best work or respect the spirit or vision of linux as a work of engineering.
Without a strong willed vision of what a project is and where it needs to be going you get disaster.
For an online game, you are paying for the online service, like you did with AOL or your ISP. So I don't have a problem with subscribing to such a "Game as a service". But then again, Clients for online services used to be free and did not cost full retail price. (Aol coasters anyone?)
Facepalm, the whole corpoirate agenda was to take software out of customers hands. Quake 3 vs quake champions, Diablo 2 vs diablo 3 so no you are the ignorant fool who fell for the scam that ultimately ruined videogame history. The whole agenda was to take AAA games and rebrand them "MMO/online" and take advantage of the fact your brain doesn't reason very well so they get to keep the game and exploit you silly for profits. In the 90's we also had "online games" aka quake 3, they game with server executables they gave you. The fact that wow private servers exists disputes your thesis. Either way mmo's were the big scam, ultima rpg's in development were just rebadged and relabelled mmos. So RPG's that would have been full complete games we owned were locked down via servers and given a subscription because the average person is a moron.
As someone who grew up from videogames from the very beginning seeing stupid people like you fall for this shit was maddening, just giving up your rights to own the shit you buy because you're too stupid to see the agenda to rake you over the coals.
Remember when you used to buy games and just unlock stuff as you go? Ah, simpler times.
Everyone who bought Ultima online and everquest back in the day paved the way for all this shit. As soon as publishers saw gamers were dumb enough to buy or subscribe to software they didn't own or control it was over.
Beware the Privatization of Education, lest we end up with a generation that's trained like slaves would be trained
You've already been voting against your own interests since the new deal if you are in the US. Most modern citizens are politically ignorant. If anyone has been voting for any establishment party they don't know how government works.
A JAMMA cabinet and game PCB are more buyable than free-to-play phone games, which are the biggest abusers of microtransactions in my experience.
So no, modern AAA gaming is basically theft and fraud on an unprecedented scale.
And my point remains that one can boycott abusive AAA game publishers without boycotting video games.
Man you are one dumb motherfucker, the last 20 years the same things were said when mmo's were released (aka anyone playing the ultima's knew ultima online was a scam to charge monthly fee's for rpg games).
You must have missed Quake 3 vs quake champions, dota 2 and league of legends. All new games that have multiplayer components are now tied to the internet and this new f2p business model because the masses are too stupid to participate in the market.
Boycotts don't work when there is always a sucker born every minute and most of society is too stupid and technology illiterate to participate.
Before online digital restrictions management, publishers still sold games piecemeal as "expansions". Arcade games ran entirely on microtransactions.
Man you are one giant idiot, arcade games aren't buyable. They sit in malls, for most of videogame history (consoles, pc) you owned the software outright, you controlled it. Don't call arcade games microtransactions, the whole concept didn't even exist. Modern microtransactions are based on fraud. AKA selling what isn't scarce. So to make microtransactions possible they had to steal the software and keep piece of the software on their computers on their offices, pre high speed internet everywhere that was impossible.
So no, modern AAA gaming is basically theft and fraud on an unprecedented scale.
But none of this locked down the PC itself in the way that major consoles are. I7
What do you think windows 10 is you idiot? It's the slow baking of locking in drm, windows 10 + more trusted computing models + encrypted computing is slowly being put into everything.
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Other than envy, why should you care that someone is making more, a lot more, than you? If you are doing better than before, for the same effort, that's awesome! Absolute poverty is dropping like a stone, even without government help, because by specialization and trade, we're all incentivized to do what works best in our own individual circumstances. Relative poverty, which is what you're railing on about, will only seem to go away in communism, which of course it won't because everyone except the leaders will be poor (think USSR, GDR, Cuba, North Korea): putting in the effort to become much more productive than others without reward gets old fast.
Your whole post reads like an uneducated screed.... perhaps you should actually know how the world works before you open your mouth. The world you talk about has never existed. AKA the rich do not simply get rich by productivity, they buy politicians and get policies to favor themselves. They have power to reshape the political and economic environment in which everyone exists. I've watched for the last 20 years as big mega corporations (aka the rich) have stolen PC games out from under us because the internet undermines the publics ability to hold companies accountable. You're not going to hold a company accountable when they are 100 miles away from you.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Testing theories of representative government
https://scholar.princeton.edu/...
Billions in energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/p...
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://vimeo.com/39566117
I too started feeling pitchforky when I read the summary. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of psychopathic malfeasance at the top levels of the economy and government. But, we need to understand what's going on, in order to fairly and justly address it, in order to provide the greatest standard of living for the most people.
You should feel more pitchforky because the top is way out of sight.
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
You mean the creeps that want to backdoor everything and compromise all security in order to be able to listen to and record everything? Fat chance. These people will only make everything worse.
Bruce Schneier has an irrational trust in authority. He really should know better by now.
Everyones under the naive idea the government is not owned by the same people in the private sector promoting IoT. The reality is all governments are now at war with their respective publics because they are concerned about the global political awakening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... a good example was what happened to videogames for the last 20 years. The entire industry once high speed internet was everywhere was literally able to steal game software and hold it back on their servers because the average person did not have the "common sense" that corporations will do anything to make a buck including try to take the software you are paying for away from you in order to charge you more.
... over the last 200 years. The Democrats and republicans are the enemies of the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't know if I fully fault them either.
It is... Nintendo basically is an insular company, for instance starfox wouldn't have died as a property if they'd given it to Voltion (the people who made freespace 1 and 2) see below...
Freespace 2 open (vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Starfox Zero WiiU review
http://www.metacritic.com/game...
Freespace 2 score metacritic
https://www.metacritic.com/gam...
Basically Team voltion/descent has been rotting for 20 years as Miyamoto and company have fucked the pooch on starfox franchise, even though that team is probably the best space combat making game on the planet. Nintendo not having a general understanding of what it means to be a gamer that games on all platforms has passed up opportunity after opportunity to get western devs to make good use of their IP's.
Nintendo's japanese teams never made a good transition to the HD era, all of there games have suffered quality issues outside of maybe mario and kart and Smash brothers.
Another big mistake was not getting Team Vigil (of darksiders 1 fame) to do a Zelda game. Even though darksiders 1 is better than all the zelda games Nintendo made outside of maybe latter half of windwaker.
We're not this dumb.
Yes we are, you have to understand the nature of the class system is toxic for many kids being raised at the bottom of capitalist society, capitalist societies goal is to manufacture ignorant poorly politically educated workers and professionals.
In fact if you read Oswalds spenglers decline of the west, his theory is that civilizations rise and fall based on their own internal dynamics and there comes a point in every civilizations life that the slave classes no longer recognize they are slaves and get eaten by their upper classes - aka the corruption exists because of the mass stupidity of the slave classes.
you'd have to be physically two blocks from their offices for your outrage to have any effect.
Huh? Since when do purchase decisions have to be made 2 blocks from a company's office?
You're not getting that before the internet existed they physically had to give you the entire software in order to get paid, you have no ability to influence their behavior via purchasing because they can always find a bunch of uninformed people to sustain themselves. The elite market participants can protect everyone else if there was some way to hold the company accountable (aka storming their offices). In reality since their customers are 100's of miles away, merely "not buying" from a company does not work. I'll give you an example from videogames...
What does a 40 year old and a 15 year old have in common in terms of their awareness and buying habits? AKA nothing. If you're going to tell an informed audience that kids and their idiot parents are going to not buy games for their teens for christmas/birthday/whatever. I got a bridge I want to sell ya. Most people who are purchasing things have no idea how they work, they are not qualified to be market participants. The brain did not evolve to live in a free market society so you get these bad outcomes where corporate lawlesness gets accepted because of the ass backward nature of how the human mind is constructed. It's not in your interest to buy broken products or fraudulently made ones. But companies hire a bunch of scientists to manipulate people via advertising. The average person is not equipped to make sensible decisions in a high tech society.
There's no real outrage - people still keep buying the accursed thing in massive numbers.
The free market cannot exist in an internet enabled society, you'd need physical proximity to these companies to have any accountability at all. That's the reason software companies have basically invaded everyones privacy and personal space, you'd have to be physically two blocks from their offices for your outrage to have any effect. It's not that those mad angry people aren't there, it's that there is always a portion of the population that is perpetually ignorant and stupid for corporations to develop an in with, thereby causing collapse of the rest because you'd need to be able to co-ordinate.
The free market fairy never existed, the human mind did not evolve to make rational decisions in a high tech capitalist society and we're seeing the result - total loss of freedom because the average consumer is a tech illiterate moron.
I have no idea what you're talking about regarding videogames.
Could you give some specific case?
In the 90's, pre internet, game companies had to give you all the files - the complete software when you bought a game. So in the late 90's CEO's came up with a fraudulent scheme to get naive and irrational public used to the idea of buying games you don't own or control because they knew most people were computer illiterate. Like how they took Ultima rpg's in development and reballed them Ultima online, to get the subscription money, aka paying monthly for a game you never own. MMO's were the plot to take regular PC rpg's and move them out of gamers hands and into the control of developers/publishers, now this couldn't happen without the internet. Where they chop up the software into two chunks and only give you one piece.
Good examples are diablo 2 vs diablo 3, diablo 2 you fully control the single+multiplayer on a machine, aka if blizzard ever goes out of business you can still play the campaign and the multiplayer with friends. Diablo 3 PC is fully controlled by blizzard with bizarre streaming tech that introduced single player lag because of authentication checks. Any game where you have to "login" = you don't own it, means your being taken for a ride. AKA they can pull the plug at any time and your software goes bye bye, even though you paid for it. So before high speed internet penetration was everywhere you got complete games after they are basically committing fraud by producing games in a hostile manner, they got with this because customers are 100's of miles away. AKA the internet made it trivial to steal software by simply NOT releasing the whole software and keeping a part of it on corporate computers inside their offices.
If a company hasn't done something wrong, the government has no business doing anything to them.
Sorry to burst your bubble but companies can get around the law or engage in lawless behavior before policies of the state can catch up leading to all sorts of disasters. Right now technology has undermined american dogma's like accountability in markets. The videogame industry being a prime example, the internet allowed US videogame companies to steal videogame software because their customers cannot reach these companies. So they can forcibly defraud users without their consent because users would need physical closeness to the business to have any market power at all. So the internet has created total market failure in videogames since customers have zero power to influence the behavior of these companies.
New terminology is going to have to be invented for what the internet has done to society and it takes a while to do the necessary research. Old free market ideology does not describe what is happening in society anymore, that's the reality on the ground.
The folks at the NSA are jealous that they cannot have the same thing.
https://wikileaks.org/google-i...
https://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Go...
" vehemently defend censorship by private corporations. " - I thought you liked the free market? No? Conservatives change your tiny minds every 4 years anyway, now you're on the Trump wagon, next year it's back to deficit spending...
If you weren't such unabridged liars the waking world might take you seriously instead of roasting marshmallows over the fire of your corpse, as we collectively do.
You haven't made any sense, what is it that you believe? The reality is the oligarchs and the rich are at war with regular people, and if you don't understand that you don't understand politics at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's funny that that people in tech (and by extension largely on the left, politically) vehemently defend censorship by private corporations. This would not have even been a thing just three years ago. Now the shoe in on the other foot and they're great defenders of corporate rights.
You're pretty much brain damaged, the entire corporate world has got you and most of the public so distracted while they perfect manipulating your mind via algoritms and clickbait sjw outrage your freedoms are already infringed upon and gone away if you had been paying attention for the last 200 years...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Man, google is really stepping in it hard as of late
That's because you are all unaware all states are at war with their respective publics because they fear the internets potential to politically awaken the publics of the globe. See here by former national security advisor, this is just rich capitalist oligarchs and powers that be doing everything they can to maintain control over the public minds of the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I hear it again and again, and no one ever seems to notice themselves re-hashing the same tired old pining for a glorious past that never was, .
I'll give you a damn good one - owning and controlling fucking software, the degree with which new generations have bent over for videogame companies and operating system companies defies belief. AKA software as a service where you don't control or own the shit you pay for and are spied on constantly. The new kids have fucked over the freedom to own and tinker with your own machine. So yes there definitely was a better time in the 90's before software companies could simply steal software made push button easy by stupid half of humanity getting a high speed internet connection. Most of the public is tech illiterate and that has huge consequences in an internet enabled age where mass spying, data harvesting and PC software freedom are being given away by newer generations and their idiot parents.
I never thought PC gaming would become a fucking idiocracy where it devolves into corporate feudalism where no one has any rights to own or control the shit they are paying for, level editing is massively curtailed and their is microtransactions and fucking gambling everywhere.
Being anti-social and lacking empathy doesn't make you a better coder, it makes you an asshole.
Tech people aren't being assholes, they understand project entropy, aka any project tends to lose momentum and vision over time. So the people who care most strongly about linux would indeed appear to be "assholes" because they are engineers and technicaly people. People don't get angry or passionate about things they don't give a damn about.
The problem isn't empathy it's amateur contributors or new professionals not understanding things tend to fall apart. AKA managing large projects is hard exhausting work and you don't want contributions from people who aren't going to put in their best work or respect the spirit or vision of linux as a work of engineering.
Without a strong willed vision of what a project is and where it needs to be going you get disaster.
For an online game, you are paying for the online service, like you did with AOL or your ISP. So I don't have a problem with subscribing to such a "Game as a service". But then again, Clients for online services used to be free and did not cost full retail price. (Aol coasters anyone?)
Facepalm, the whole corpoirate agenda was to take software out of customers hands. Quake 3 vs quake champions, Diablo 2 vs diablo 3 so no you are the ignorant fool who fell for the scam that ultimately ruined videogame history. The whole agenda was to take AAA games and rebrand them "MMO/online" and take advantage of the fact your brain doesn't reason very well so they get to keep the game and exploit you silly for profits. In the 90's we also had "online games" aka quake 3, they game with server executables they gave you. The fact that wow private servers exists disputes your thesis. Either way mmo's were the big scam, ultima rpg's in development were just rebadged and relabelled mmos. So RPG's that would have been full complete games we owned were locked down via servers and given a subscription because the average person is a moron.
As someone who grew up from videogames from the very beginning seeing stupid people like you fall for this shit was maddening, just giving up your rights to own the shit you buy because you're too stupid to see the agenda to rake you over the coals.
Remember when you used to buy games and just unlock stuff as you go? Ah, simpler times.
Everyone who bought Ultima online and everquest back in the day paved the way for all this shit. As soon as publishers saw gamers were dumb enough to buy or subscribe to software they didn't own or control it was over.
Beware the Privatization of Education, lest we end up with a generation that's trained like slaves would be trained
You've already been voting against your own interests since the new deal if you are in the US. Most modern citizens are politically ignorant. If anyone has been voting for any establishment party they don't know how government works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Here is the actual data...
I think everyone should see the following before believing anything about what is published about tax rates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A JAMMA cabinet and game PCB are more buyable than free-to-play phone games, which are the biggest abusers of microtransactions in my experience.
So no, modern AAA gaming is basically theft and fraud on an unprecedented scale.
And my point remains that one can boycott abusive AAA game publishers without boycotting video games.
Man you are one dumb motherfucker, the last 20 years the same things were said when mmo's were released (aka anyone playing the ultima's knew ultima online was a scam to charge monthly fee's for rpg games).
You must have missed Quake 3 vs quake champions, dota 2 and league of legends. All new games that have multiplayer components are now tied to the internet and this new f2p business model because the masses are too stupid to participate in the market.
Boycotts don't work when there is always a sucker born every minute and most of society is too stupid and technology illiterate to participate.
Before online digital restrictions management, publishers still sold games piecemeal as "expansions". Arcade games ran entirely on microtransactions.
Man you are one giant idiot, arcade games aren't buyable. They sit in malls, for most of videogame history (consoles, pc) you owned the software outright, you controlled it. Don't call arcade games microtransactions, the whole concept didn't even exist. Modern microtransactions are based on fraud. AKA selling what isn't scarce. So to make microtransactions possible they had to steal the software and keep piece of the software on their computers on their offices, pre high speed internet everywhere that was impossible.
So no, modern AAA gaming is basically theft and fraud on an unprecedented scale.
But none of this locked down the PC itself in the way that major consoles are. I7
What do you think windows 10 is you idiot? It's the slow baking of locking in drm, windows 10 + more trusted computing models + encrypted computing is slowly being put into everything.
https://www.intel.com/content/...
These "security technologies" will slowly ebb out from centalized servers into desktops.
You know there's more to computing than games, right?
I don't believe in software as a service nor having my operating system spy on me.