... people don't want to learn. No doubt tools can always be better but knowing how to improve them is a non trivial undertaking. They want easier to use tools but those "easy to use tools" take decades of research and development to make. If good tools were so easy to make they would already exist.
Computers programs are only as good as the coneptual and modelling approach you use. Consider many 2D videogames who render spries as largely square/rectangle block, if you want two sprites to do something complex like melt into one another, that would require 1) faking it or 2) coming up with an entirely new way to model and animate sprites that broke them down into individual pixels/atomic components.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague. That's why people are frustrated they simply do not know nor understand the complexity of the work they are asking when the want some problem "they think is easy" to be be rigorously quantified before you can code up a solution in a program.
It seems to me that Microsoft managers don't have a reasonable vision of the eventual results of their recent ideas for the future.
They aren't targeting corporate users they are targeting the mass market idiot consumer, because pioneering by the videogame industry through mmo's, and apple and other phone companies building walled garden appstores for their phones, and steam doing the same thing. They will get it all in the end because the average citizen is tech a illiterate moron.
Software companies can sit in their office and "release" the software via the net, and keep part of it on servers in their offices. Before high speed internet penetration was everywhere, the only way they could get paid was by shipping you the entire software physically or they wouldn't get paid.
The internet allows tech companies to force policies on ignorant consumers because the literate consumer base cannot hold them accountable. You'd need physical proximity to the business for your anger and discontent to effect company policy. The free market is dead and has long since been so, the internet removed any last bit of consumer power consumers had. Welcome to the silicon valley dictatorship driven by idiot half of the consumer buying public.
I find it ironic that the first thing that comes out of an open CPU design is more of the closed systems that supposedly RISC-V was designed to discourage.
That is the whole tech industries goal, you seem to be unaware the tech industry from the very beginning - (games, hardware mfg'ers, holly wood, etc) have always hated people owning and controlling their own computers and software. With the rise of high speed internet they are using the ignorant half of mankind to slowly boil the frog and take away control of our machines because they know we can't reach these companies and hold them accountable.
The last 20 years in videogames and software has been towards walled gardens, pioneered by Apple and google, with iphone and android. Then by the videogame industry with rebadging PC RPG's as mmo's to extract monthly payments to transform and get the public used to software as something you never own. That has been the industries goal since forever. The internet was the gift from god big business was waiting for - when everything is a software (aka on longer on dvd), you can just keep part of the software on computers at corporate HQ and control the customer because your tech smart customers can't reach you. The free market is a myth for the masses. How are you supposed to hold any company accountable when they are 100's of miles away from you?
The internet has radically transformed the relationship between consumers and companies and in a very bad way companies can now just steal and exploit the public from the safety of corporate HQ miles away. Nothing short of magic portal tech or ideological revolution will ever change anything.
But in the long run they are likely to relax those rules
DethLok
You're gullible if you believe this, the trend has been the exact opposite - in order for games to have lootboxes and microtransactions they need drm, do you really think EPIC is going to stop after having made billions on skins in fortnite? You're completely naive.
Lots of DRM free gold old games for cheap, some for free (if you sign up to newsletter, I think).
The problem is all new AAA games have server locks that most won't be able to reverse engineer with any kind of intelligence and will remain mostly broken while developers hold hostage the exe's.
Slashdot's moderating system is still, IMHO, the best example of a way for a community to not only moderate discussion
It really isn't because you will have young generations downvoting older generations. As someone who lived through the great MMO scam of the 90's, where companies rebadged RPG PC games as mmo's to fleece a gullibly videogame public to get them to pay for the same RPG game monthly. They proved that the average person is an idiot. I saw dedicated servers paired back and videogame software stolen and taken hostage by videogame companies like valve and that greedy prick Gabe newell and kids worship this guy on the internet, any badmouthing of valve, EQ and world of warcraft as having been propaganda to get the young kids used to buying games they don't own gets downvoted to oblivion. Then the kids wonder why loot boxes and games are literally being destroyed because they are too stupid to understand when you buy software you don't fully own and control the corporations will rob you blind. The millennial generation is just as stupid and irrational as previous generations. Digital natives my ass. The fact that dedicated servers are long gone and held back because of these kids is disturbing enough on its own.
So as an old codger watching these kids lick the balls of videogame corporations while videogame history is literally being destroyed and there won't be "good old games" anymore because now they can just shut off the server and destroy the game is pretty fucking disgusting.
.It's not that the Cloud isn't useful, it's that this is a dumb concept/p>
The cloud is about getting rid of software ownership and eventually putting DRM into cpu's to permanently remove control of PC's from consumers hands by making them dumb terminals.
Man I feel old saying this but... Remember a time when you could pack a gaming system away in a box for a decade or two and open it up and all the games still worked?
The average member of the species is computer illiterate, once people paid for mmo's and microtransactions it was game over for game ownership the average gamer is a fucking moron that will allow game companies to steal whatever isn't fucking nailed down.
... permanently. The reason "platforms" like steam exist is because the outrage at videogame theft couldn't reach these companies. Consumers don't have any power anymore now that products can be held hostage on servers on the other side of the internet. Companies are re-engineering the internet to obey them and turn it into a dumb network for consumers.
The same way gabe newell half life when he inserted DRM into it, DRM would have been removed if we had portal tech and could storm his offices way back in the day and prevent his billion dollar trojan horse criminal heist of videogame software.
The reason "platforms" exist is because the internet has allowed companies the ability to steal and defraud the worlds consumers from the safety of their offices. If I can release a piece of software and keep part of it on my computer while the worlds millions of customers are hundreds of miles away, what am I? An asshole.
The reason companies got away with this shit is because the internet allows those who control the means of software production to steal at the point of production. AKA they have the market over a barrel so its not a market, otherwise customers would force these companies to release the software they've stolen and called a "platform".
You shouldn't steal things that don't belong to you. No sympathy here.
Except big business stole the public domain and our right to own our software first long before idiots like you enable massive corporate corruption and lawlessness, but lets not let the facts out lobbyist bought IP law because of morons like you slide. The evidence is overwhelming, historically and politically illiterate people like you are useful idiots that allow robber barons to exist.
Lets look at the constitution:
Intellectual Property Clause. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for **limited times** to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
Note it says limited times, not infinite times, it was never intended to grant a permanent private monopoly on human culture to giant corporations. Technically IP is owned by the public and since it is already owned by us we are not stealing since we are the ultimate owners of OUR IP. Intellectual property was a temporarily granted monopoly to encourage the preservation of human culture not the destruction of it.
If it wasn't for ignorant people like yourself governments of the world wouldn't be so corporately owned and corrupt.
Why is a bank supposed to be at the post office? That's so bizarre.
There's nothing bizarre about it, the reason the mail system exists is because it was part of the infrastructure of society going way back before telephones/internet were a thing. Now post offices are largely for shipping and parcel delivery but people still need to send/receive packages. So it makes perfect sense for banks to be rolled into post offices, since post offices are basic infrastructure of society. Bank, send / receive packages, etc.
The reality is the average person on our planet is a fucking moron
It would be interesting to see how many people consider you average.
I know you got mad because I insulted one of your favorite games or game companies because you are mostly likely an idiot consrevative or libertarian of some kind... so I will give you two words in return : Lootboxes and pay 2 win
So yeah we know who is the fucking moron, the AC who can't deal with the fact games are now not games but gambling simulators for kids. Gaming history be damned. Who cares if we can even play the games of today in 20 years, am I right? That's what makes you average, you don't give a fuck about being screwed.
The reality is the average person on our planet is a fucking moron...
This isn't a problem that can be fixed.
But it's also the reason the internet became centralized - what most people care about is one stop shop for what they use the internet for, so of course the web consolidated. Since most people use the web for mostly banal things easy to centralize.
Once upon a time the the internet was distributed.
This was NEVER the case, the internet was developed by the military and universities, aka big government and big business. The internet attracted attention once you could sell things on it and people began to entertain themselves via it. Once that happened there was a "market" aka people on the net that could be "monetized" so private sector moved in to establish monopolies on where people were spending their "attention" (read: ads, google, etc). Once search engines were good enough people started using the internet more and spending more time on it and hence attracted even more big business dollars and that's what big business does best - consolidate.
Distributed systems are inefficient for what most people use computers for - aka read the news, use email, brows the web and watch youtube. Most of us use the web mostly to entertain ourselves lets be honest. Only a minority use it for anything else.
The reality is the average person on our planet is a fucking moron, the fact that everquest, world of warcraft, diablo 3 with online drm even exist.... once companies understood the average person buying software or entertainment products has no idea how computers work they can simply take software products hostage and exploit the masses for mad bucks.
Technically League of legends model is outright fraud - selling flags to display game textures that already exist in files on the host machine.
The reality is we live in a capitalist idiocracy, the average person will keep buying corporate malware as long as it's easy and convenient for people to enterain themselves. That's reality.
that we are about to reach "peak digital" and that (mental) health issues related to perpetual computer and smartphone usage will become an epidemic.
Hardly smart phone and computer use is just a scapegoat for oppressive conditions of modern society so people are checking out into social media. AKA unrealistic demands of schools and the workplace have people checking out in droves.
... are designed by idiots trying to increase ad space. Let's be honest. The new site redesign at reddit is much worse and less readable then old reddit. The reality is if reddit and other sites want more ad space they'd do well to create a completely seperate site from the main reddit site.
Most enhancements to the user interface are designed by total idiots. It's not that "innovation" is bad, it's that you need to think about the person using the website instead of business focus based bullshit. Many of the reasons people use social media like reddit or slashdot is because they got the user interface design mostly correct even if there is some cheap or bad design.
Instead of saying "how do we expand our audience or our reach to make more $$$" try to understand perhaps you need to find other avenues of making money besides selling ads or transforming a website from why any group of people found it interesting in the first place.
How does "the number of people that can run your software" correlate to "supply in software"? It would seem to me that the former number has to do with the demand, not supply.
So, if you offer a product that is a digital download, you might theoretically have an infinite supply of copies. But that supply side would actually be limited by your server uptime, bandwidth, the time window in which the file is served until you EOL it or your business goes under, etc. So no supply is infinite, not even for intangibles.
Your whole post is gobbleydook typical of free marketeers - bandwidth costs pennies, so the marginal cost apporaches zero so supply is effectively infinite. So yes charging 60$ for a 5 year old videogame disproves market theory because technically you want to sell the maximum # of copies then the price should go down over time it shouldn't be sitting at 60$ 5 years after release.
Free market still works withing the videogame industry. Supply in software isn't infinite
This is utter nonsense, the supply of any game IS effectively infinite - aka therefore the price should approach zero for game software but that doesn't happen. A 5 year old transformers game should not be selling for 60$. You can't just ignore facts that don't fit your theory. You're basically acting irrational at this point. If supply demand theory were true the price of the software would approach zero but it never does.
No free market theory is a myth, according to rational actor theory - lets take the videogame industry - it's not in your rational interest to ever buy an mmo for instance. During the late 90's company CEO's were trying to find new ways to exploit gamers they took normal rpg's with single and multiplayer combined in one game and rebranded them mmo's and amped up the PR to get people to pay monthly for a game they never own. That is the definition of getting fucked.
I'll give you another one, before it was taken down Tranformers Fall of cybertron by Activision was selling for 50-60$ 5 + years after release. How is that possible under "supply demand" theory? AKA if activision doesn't need your money they won't lower the prices, they have billions of dollars to sit on to wait. So supply and demand is bullshit otherwise everything that isn't bought in terms of software would be near zero price because supply is infinite.
Which is really impressive considering he died over a year ago
It was from before he died but you can still see they are aware of the impacts of technology and how that's stimulating the free flow of information - aka the rulers now don't control what you get to see and here anymore and that has them worried.
Was the Ted Kazinsky correct in his prediction of the control society, that our modern society requires ultimate control of its citizens to function in an (post-)industrial setting and that our freedoms therefore must be taken away from us?
All rich capitalist from all capitalist states fear the political awakening of the masses, aka access to real information regarding how badly they are getting screwed.
Zbigniew Brezinksi former national security advisor of the United states, just called all the citizens who are not in the upper 1-5% of their societies "A menace".
Okay, so it's the subscription and client-server model you have an issue with. Not seeing how it's fraud, though.
Fraud in that before the internet was invented paying for software you don't own was impossible, aka the evil plan was to normalize and get the public used to being non owners of the cultural products they were buying. So you get a disaster, notice how all older games now have drm server locks in them like starcraft 2 and diablo 3, where as before starcraft 1 and diablo 1 / 2 were fully complete games. AKA it's all a scam perpetrated on irrational people.
While SC2 and Diablo 3 don't have monthly fee's the software is fraudulently coded - aka the software can be broken from their end on the server, so yes it is fraud. The subscription model was a way to convert normal RPG games that combined both single player and multiplayer to software gamers don't own, the mmo moniker was a PR term to smuggle the idea that "oh its not this, it's that" to the intellecutally unsophicated. They just forked normal rpg's changed the code to require a server they don't release and give you half the game and keep the other half.
Slashdot Mirror
... people don't want to learn. No doubt tools can always be better but knowing how to improve them is a non trivial undertaking. They want easier to use tools but those "easy to use tools" take decades of research and development to make. If good tools were so easy to make they would already exist.
Computers programs are only as good as the coneptual and modelling approach you use. Consider many 2D videogames who render spries as largely square/rectangle block, if you want two sprites to do something complex like melt into one another, that would require 1) faking it or 2) coming up with an entirely new way to model and animate sprites that broke them down into individual pixels/atomic components.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague. That's why people are frustrated they simply do not know nor understand the complexity of the work they are asking when the want some problem "they think is easy" to be be rigorously quantified before you can code up a solution in a program.
... walled gardens and locking down games accusing google of unfair practices. That is rich.
It seems to me that Microsoft managers don't have a reasonable vision of the eventual results of their recent ideas for the future.
They aren't targeting corporate users they are targeting the mass market idiot consumer, because pioneering by the videogame industry through mmo's, and apple and other phone companies building walled garden appstores for their phones, and steam doing the same thing. They will get it all in the end because the average citizen is tech a illiterate moron.
Software companies can sit in their office and "release" the software via the net, and keep part of it on servers in their offices. Before high speed internet penetration was everywhere, the only way they could get paid was by shipping you the entire software physically or they wouldn't get paid.
The internet allows tech companies to force policies on ignorant consumers because the literate consumer base cannot hold them accountable. You'd need physical proximity to the business for your anger and discontent to effect company policy. The free market is dead and has long since been so, the internet removed any last bit of consumer power consumers had. Welcome to the silicon valley dictatorship driven by idiot half of the consumer buying public.
George carlin said it well about humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I find it ironic that the first thing that comes out of an open CPU design is more of the closed systems that supposedly RISC-V was designed to discourage.
That is the whole tech industries goal, you seem to be unaware the tech industry from the very beginning - (games, hardware mfg'ers, holly wood, etc) have always hated people owning and controlling their own computers and software. With the rise of high speed internet they are using the ignorant half of mankind to slowly boil the frog and take away control of our machines because they know we can't reach these companies and hold them accountable.
The last 20 years in videogames and software has been towards walled gardens, pioneered by Apple and google, with iphone and android. Then by the videogame industry with rebadging PC RPG's as mmo's to extract monthly payments to transform and get the public used to software as something you never own. That has been the industries goal since forever. The internet was the gift from god big business was waiting for - when everything is a software (aka on longer on dvd), you can just keep part of the software on computers at corporate HQ and control the customer because your tech smart customers can't reach you. The free market is a myth for the masses. How are you supposed to hold any company accountable when they are 100's of miles away from you?
The internet has radically transformed the relationship between consumers and companies and in a very bad way companies can now just steal and exploit the public from the safety of corporate HQ miles away. Nothing short of magic portal tech or ideological revolution will ever change anything.
But in the long run they are likely to relax those rules
DethLok
You're gullible if you believe this, the trend has been the exact opposite - in order for games to have lootboxes and microtransactions they need drm, do you really think EPIC is going to stop after having made billions on skins in fortnite? You're completely naive.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/...
Lots of DRM free gold old games for cheap, some for free (if you sign up to newsletter, I think).
The problem is all new AAA games have server locks that most won't be able to reverse engineer with any kind of intelligence and will remain mostly broken while developers hold hostage the exe's.
Slashdot's moderating system is still, IMHO, the best example of a way for a community to not only moderate discussion
It really isn't because you will have young generations downvoting older generations. As someone who lived through the great MMO scam of the 90's, where companies rebadged RPG PC games as mmo's to fleece a gullibly videogame public to get them to pay for the same RPG game monthly. They proved that the average person is an idiot. I saw dedicated servers paired back and videogame software stolen and taken hostage by videogame companies like valve and that greedy prick Gabe newell and kids worship this guy on the internet, any badmouthing of valve, EQ and world of warcraft as having been propaganda to get the young kids used to buying games they don't own gets downvoted to oblivion. Then the kids wonder why loot boxes and games are literally being destroyed because they are too stupid to understand when you buy software you don't fully own and control the corporations will rob you blind. The millennial generation is just as stupid and irrational as previous generations. Digital natives my ass. The fact that dedicated servers are long gone and held back because of these kids is disturbing enough on its own.
So as an old codger watching these kids lick the balls of videogame corporations while videogame history is literally being destroyed and there won't be "good old games" anymore because now they can just shut off the server and destroy the game is pretty fucking disgusting.
.It's not that the Cloud isn't useful, it's that this is a dumb concept/p>
The cloud is about getting rid of software ownership and eventually putting DRM into cpu's to permanently remove control of PC's from consumers hands by making them dumb terminals.
Man I feel old saying this but...
Remember a time when you could pack a gaming system away in a box for a decade or two and open it up and all the games still worked?
The average member of the species is computer illiterate, once people paid for mmo's and microtransactions it was game over for game ownership the average gamer is a fucking moron that will allow game companies to steal whatever isn't fucking nailed down.
... permanently. The reason "platforms" like steam exist is because the outrage at videogame theft couldn't reach these companies. Consumers don't have any power anymore now that products can be held hostage on servers on the other side of the internet. Companies are re-engineering the internet to obey them and turn it into a dumb network for consumers.
The same way gabe newell half life when he inserted DRM into it, DRM would have been removed if we had portal tech and could storm his offices way back in the day and prevent his billion dollar trojan horse criminal heist of videogame software.
The reason "platforms" exist is because the internet has allowed companies the ability to steal and defraud the worlds consumers from the safety of their offices. If I can release a piece of software and keep part of it on my computer while the worlds millions of customers are hundreds of miles away, what am I? An asshole.
The reason companies got away with this shit is because the internet allows those who control the means of software production to steal at the point of production. AKA they have the market over a barrel so its not a market, otherwise customers would force these companies to release the software they've stolen and called a "platform".
You shouldn't steal things that don't belong to you. No sympathy here.
Except big business stole the public domain and our right to own our software first long before idiots like you enable massive corporate corruption and lawlessness, but lets not let the facts out lobbyist bought IP law because of morons like you slide. The evidence is overwhelming, historically and politically illiterate people like you are useful idiots that allow robber barons to exist.
Lets look at the constitution:
Intellectual Property Clause. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for **limited times** to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Note it says limited times, not infinite times, it was never intended to grant a permanent private monopoly on human culture to giant corporations. Technically IP is owned by the public and since it is already owned by us we are not stealing since we are the ultimate owners of OUR IP. Intellectual property was a temporarily granted monopoly to encourage the preservation of human culture not the destruction of it.
If it wasn't for ignorant people like yourself governments of the world wouldn't be so corporately owned and corrupt.
George carlin said it best about humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most people don't own a business, genius. Jesus Christ, you alt-right libertarians really are as out of touch as everyone said you are.
You're delusional, you do not see the world as it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You lost me at the "it makes perfect sense" part. Since when do people receive packages at the post office?
Businesses are constantly shipping shit everywhere you must not own a business. I got a tonne of mail/parcel depots everywhere where near I live.
Why is a bank supposed to be at the post office? That's so bizarre.
There's nothing bizarre about it, the reason the mail system exists is because it was part of the infrastructure of society going way back before telephones/internet were a thing. Now post offices are largely for shipping and parcel delivery but people still need to send/receive packages. So it makes perfect sense for banks to be rolled into post offices, since post offices are basic infrastructure of society. Bank, send / receive packages, etc.
It would be interesting to see how many people consider you average.
I know you got mad because I insulted one of your favorite games or game companies because you are mostly likely an idiot consrevative or libertarian of some kind... so I will give you two words in return : Lootboxes and pay 2 win
So yeah we know who is the fucking moron, the AC who can't deal with the fact games are now not games but gambling simulators for kids. Gaming history be damned. Who cares if we can even play the games of today in 20 years, am I right? That's what makes you average, you don't give a fuck about being screwed.
This isn't a problem that can be fixed.
But it's also the reason the internet became centralized - what most people care about is one stop shop for what they use the internet for, so of course the web consolidated. Since most people use the web for mostly banal things easy to centralize.
Once upon a time the the internet was distributed.
This was NEVER the case, the internet was developed by the military and universities, aka big government and big business. The internet attracted attention once you could sell things on it and people began to entertain themselves via it. Once that happened there was a "market" aka people on the net that could be "monetized" so private sector moved in to establish monopolies on where people were spending their "attention" (read: ads, google, etc). Once search engines were good enough people started using the internet more and spending more time on it and hence attracted even more big business dollars and that's what big business does best - consolidate.
Distributed systems are inefficient for what most people use computers for - aka read the news, use email, brows the web and watch youtube. Most of us use the web mostly to entertain ourselves lets be honest. Only a minority use it for anything else.
The reality is the average person on our planet is a fucking moron, the fact that everquest, world of warcraft, diablo 3 with online drm even exist.... once companies understood the average person buying software or entertainment products has no idea how computers work they can simply take software products hostage and exploit the masses for mad bucks.
Technically League of legends model is outright fraud - selling flags to display game textures that already exist in files on the host machine.
The reality is we live in a capitalist idiocracy, the average person will keep buying corporate malware as long as it's easy and convenient for people to enterain themselves. That's reality.
that we are about to reach "peak digital" and that (mental) health issues related to perpetual computer and smartphone usage will become an epidemic.
Hardly smart phone and computer use is just a scapegoat for oppressive conditions of modern society so people are checking out into social media. AKA unrealistic demands of schools and the workplace have people checking out in droves.
... are designed by idiots trying to increase ad space. Let's be honest. The new site redesign at reddit is much worse and less readable then old reddit. The reality is if reddit and other sites want more ad space they'd do well to create a completely seperate site from the main reddit site.
Most enhancements to the user interface are designed by total idiots. It's not that "innovation" is bad, it's that you need to think about the person using the website instead of business focus based bullshit. Many of the reasons people use social media like reddit or slashdot is because they got the user interface design mostly correct even if there is some cheap or bad design.
Instead of saying "how do we expand our audience or our reach to make more $$$" try to understand perhaps you need to find other avenues of making money besides selling ads or transforming a website from why any group of people found it interesting in the first place.
How does "the number of people that can run your software" correlate to "supply in software"? It would seem to me that the former number has to do with the demand, not supply.
So, if you offer a product that is a digital download, you might theoretically have an infinite supply of copies. But that supply side would actually be limited by your server uptime, bandwidth, the time window in which the file is served until you EOL it or your business goes under, etc. So no supply is infinite, not even for intangibles.
Your whole post is gobbleydook typical of free marketeers - bandwidth costs pennies, so the marginal cost apporaches zero so supply is effectively infinite. So yes charging 60$ for a 5 year old videogame disproves market theory because technically you want to sell the maximum # of copies then the price should go down over time it shouldn't be sitting at 60$ 5 years after release.
Free market still works withing the videogame industry. Supply in software isn't infinite
This is utter nonsense, the supply of any game IS effectively infinite - aka therefore the price should approach zero for game software but that doesn't happen. A 5 year old transformers game should not be selling for 60$. You can't just ignore facts that don't fit your theory. You're basically acting irrational at this point. If supply demand theory were true the price of the software would approach zero but it never does.
Price gouging only occurs in two cases.
No free market theory is a myth, according to rational actor theory - lets take the videogame industry - it's not in your rational interest to ever buy an mmo for instance. During the late 90's company CEO's were trying to find new ways to exploit gamers they took normal rpg's with single and multiplayer combined in one game and rebranded them mmo's and amped up the PR to get people to pay monthly for a game they never own. That is the definition of getting fucked.
I'll give you another one, before it was taken down Tranformers Fall of cybertron by Activision was selling for 50-60$ 5 + years after release. How is that possible under "supply demand" theory? AKA if activision doesn't need your money they won't lower the prices, they have billions of dollars to sit on to wait. So supply and demand is bullshit otherwise everything that isn't bought in terms of software would be near zero price because supply is infinite.
Which is really impressive considering he died over a year ago
It was from before he died but you can still see they are aware of the impacts of technology and how that's stimulating the free flow of information - aka the rulers now don't control what you get to see and here anymore and that has them worried.
Was the Ted Kazinsky correct in his prediction of the control society, that our modern society requires ultimate control of its citizens to function in an (post-)industrial setting and that our freedoms therefore must be taken away from us?
All rich capitalist from all capitalist states fear the political awakening of the masses, aka access to real information regarding how badly they are getting screwed.
Zbigniew Brezinksi former national security advisor of the United states, just called all the citizens who are not in the upper 1-5% of their societies "A menace".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Okay, so it's the subscription and client-server model you have an issue with. Not seeing how it's fraud, though.
Fraud in that before the internet was invented paying for software you don't own was impossible, aka the evil plan was to normalize and get the public used to being non owners of the cultural products they were buying. So you get a disaster, notice how all older games now have drm server locks in them like starcraft 2 and diablo 3, where as before starcraft 1 and diablo 1 / 2 were fully complete games. AKA it's all a scam perpetrated on irrational people.
While SC2 and Diablo 3 don't have monthly fee's the software is fraudulently coded - aka the software can be broken from their end on the server, so yes it is fraud. The subscription model was a way to convert normal RPG games that combined both single player and multiplayer to software gamers don't own, the mmo moniker was a PR term to smuggle the idea that "oh its not this, it's that" to the intellecutally unsophicated. They just forked normal rpg's changed the code to require a server they don't release and give you half the game and keep the other half.