The thing I’ve never understood is even just looking at Google, they’ve killed so many products when they could have monetised them better with a little thought.

Instead, we have a phone thats useless for music unless you subscribe, photo storage is headed the same way and its whole ‘smart’ eco system has been ruined because of shareholder greed!

Except if Google pulled there head out there arse and built a platform people wanted to use, they’d likely make more money than they’re making now. Yet they clearly don’t get it and think ‘cloud’ solves everything!

Sadly Apple knows it has no competition so they’re just screwing with anything that they can and claim it’s ‘revolutionary’ so they can re-sell the same devices and while home assistant works ok for those of us who like tinkering, it’s a long way from being user friendly. Never mind the lack of anything smart, like speakers, displays, that work out the box.

It’s just sad to see so much potential being ruined because of seemingly clueless companies!

Except its not free. This is the lie no-one seems to understand.

Every product you buy has a % set aside for marketing. No company is sitting there thinking “oh look, free money just fell from the sky. Lets advertise so more people can have free stuff” or “oh, profits are up, lets put all those profits into advertising so people get even more free stuff”

But people don’t see seem to understand that no-one in advertising has an unlimited hole of cash they dip into to pay to advertise on sites so they can browse the site for free, you pay for reddit, etc every time you buy products!

Tbh it’s not that hard to stop scams. Treat EVERY call you get as a scammer!

Either phone back on a known number, not some shit they give you or if they claim you need bail, ask for a reference number and the place being held and phone them after looking up the number, and If they get pissed, it’s a scam!

No real police force is going to care/shouldn’t care if you call back. It’s not like cops get a percentage of bail money but scammers always seem too desperate to get you to pay and lose it pretty quick.

And? Sometimes tough choices have to be made to stand up for the greater good!

If devs realise people don’t want to support unity, and enough people vote with there wallets, they move to something else. Yes it might suck for some devs who can’t/won’t move but then thats there choice, just like it’s my choice to say screw unity!

Years ago people fought wars for this thing called ‘freedom’ but then come technology and it’s now seems a thing of legends only a select few have! 😳😎

All I want is a way to sell my ISK to recover some of the £k’s I wasted in that game. 😳

My jump freighter was lost and every year it was more of a grind to cover losses and just wasn’t fun anymore which is really the biggest problem! Nerf’s made ships bland and anything unique was nerfed so it was no longer unique… and now so much has changed there’s just too much hassle to figure things out! 😞

And it’s not like I can afford the electric to run a gaming pc these days anyway! 🤦‍♂️

People still play eve?

I can’t remember how much isk I have on my accounts but I’ve no interest in playing again but I guess I should do something with it. Maybe I can buy a few capitals and go on suicide mission to burn it all.

Kinda sad you can’t just trade it to get some of the £1k’s spent over the years. 😞

So what is the game made in?

I’m not a huge gamer anyway, but I’m not buying anymore games unless they’re made using Open Source tools!

This is the problem!

Yes, i’m sure it’s a lot of work to move game engines but time and time again it’s the same story. Closed source anything is free until the easy money has been sucked up so why even bother with anything closed source?

Sooner society stops feeding the greed, hopefully the sooner we get back to a sustainable society!

Sadly i’m not sure it’ll happen in my life! 😞

The real question is will people boycott AI generated content, or not?

Everyone complains of companies doing bad stuff, but if people continue giving them money, then can you really blame the companies?

The saying ‘vote with your wallet’ gets louder the more companies do shitty things! If you don’t like what a company does, don’t give them money… that includes visiting websites since you’re still giving them money, just not directly!

Maybe if people pulled there head out there arses more, companies wouldn’t continue ruining everything for profit! 😞🤦‍♂️

ad costs passed on in the form of higher product fees

This is what annoys me when people go on about ads making sites free.

Like the shitty uk government likes to say, it’s free at the point of use! but you still paid for it!

Even if you never buy the products advertised, no doubt the ad tax is slapped on every product that company sells. So you’re paying companies to advertise, then stalk you afterwards and yet people still don’t get why ads got so toxic now.

You too can make games with loot boxes you buy just by looking at them! 🤦‍♂️😞

What could possibly go wrong? Apart from losing all your money to some really shitty scam because people really need to stop classing them as games!

I’d prefer to see everyone joining up and striking.

Wages haven’t really gone up in years so they might give a little to a few workers now, but they’ll soon take it back at some point either through worse working conditions, or just plain ole sacking and hiring cheaper labour.

Sooner everyone gets together and truely fight for better wages, working conditions, etc. Sadly I doubt I’ll see anything improve in my lifetime! 😞

and this is why I’ll likely never buy another game from any company that uses microtransctions, in-app purchases, pay-to-win, rich idiots yacht fund, or whatever bs they call it these days… especially when these days they aren’t even ‘micro’!

I really don’t get it though. in-game purchases make every game just awful and yet people are spending 1000’s on them and it’s like how does anyone how that kinda money to waste when if I had that kinda money I sure as hell wouldn’t be wasting it on shitty pay-to-win game!

So hopefully if it turns out to be as shitty as people are starting to expect, how many people are still going to buy it…