When you play a live service game, your progress is technically THEIRS because you're essentially borrowing time from them to play that game. It's like renting a space. It's your party but it's their space that you're having the party for.
Some of us are old enough to remember LAN parties where we would download Warcraft 3 off of each other's computers.
This is made increasingly more evident as people shift towards open source software. Hell, all of Denmark is dumping Windows in favor of Linux on their government computers this year.
How is it that you consistently have the worst, most brain dead takes on anything you say? You're a normalfag mouthpiece at this point
Good to see that Maldavius Figtree has at least one genuine fan here. Good to know you're well versed in the whole situation if you can't even remember the name of the guy you "hate".
Yeah that's the way it is right now, but that's gay and retarded and it wasn't always like that. This is what le free market meme always leads to every single time, the only way to make suitniggers stop is by twisting their arm with pro-consumer regulations
I'm not defending it. I'm speaking matter of factly of the reality of live service games. I see his point, but within the literal example, that's essentially what it is: renting space. You have a right to push back against those practices however you see fit or just accept the conditions given from the developer/publisher with the understanding that times have changed.
You don't know what you're talking about, you're just opening your mouth and making moo noises like your average niggercattle "gamer" for the sake of talking about something you don't know anything about. I know, and I'm telling you to knock it off, Thor does enough of that for everybody.
"Vote with your wallet" niggers getting BTFO when the average consoooooomer is paying $120 for COD [current year]
The politics of "Stop Killing Games" is on topic for this thread. Especially when there are faggots coming in here to glaze Mald and his opinions. Much like the conversations around cyber security, MMO's, and animal care on are on topic, so are "political" conversations around the preservation of video games.
Statehood is bad and games should be $200 rentals. Debate my totally serious point of view.
"I'm coming at this from a game developer perspective." Mald is as much of a game developer as a high schooler playing with Unity, arguably less so. He does have skin in the game though, he's a literal corporate shill that knows if he says the wrong things he might hurt his bottom line with sponsorships or Offbrand, the publisher he is involved with. Dogshit behavior.
Why did you delete your original post that had his tweet?
It's absurd for Ross to think he's possibly "too volatile for peoples' tastes." Ross is not volatile at all, all of the volatility here stems from Mald. All of it...
Mald wants to present the image of programming as being magic so people see him as performing magic, he's basically a god. This is another case of "complex = good, simple = bad," actual notable programmers say the opposite of what Mald says and are much more humble when talking about it to the unacquainted. Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, Stroustrup, Linus, John Carmack, Knuth, Larry Wall, etc for example. Then there's Jason "Mald" Hall who presents himself as a programmer to try and impress others.
Mutahar made the correct point: If we called it what it is, "renting" and that is how it was presented, more would be upset.
when i put the item in the cart it says buy, and afterwards confirm purchase
Because he think that his developer larp is on pair with being a corporate magnate, which he's fucking not. Remember, his dad was a former employee at Blizzard (not a dev) and that's where his portfolio ends, he's a fraud. In his yandere like mind, he thinks his Game Maker slop "game" is matching his imaginary "over a decade of hacker expertise + Activision developer" portfolio and to implement anti-piracy measures on this slop, because he really think his shovelware is at that level. There are so many segments where he spergs out with corpo speech and how the "game market" work. That's his grift, to pretend to be a some type of authority in the gayming world, like those "CEO/investment" youtubers and self-improvment influencers.
His dad wasn't a developer, he was a project manager and director that was involved with the cinematic stuff. But yeah Mald cites "Blizzard employee" and deliberately conflates things so people believe Mald himself was a Blizzard dev that worked on WoW.
How do you propose to avoid this? Whatever entity other than the state, that you would endow with the power to make and enforce laws, would subsequently become the state. Anything else is rhetorics. There is no way to avoid this relationship between the two, unless you're willing to forego law entirely and live in direct ad hoc might-makes-right society, essentially at the level of a tribe of niggers.
Mutahar actually talked about SKG last year, but instead of wholeheartedly supporting the petition (despite having several videos where he discusses the importance of game preservation), he decided to do his regular middle of the road bullshit in order to not offend Jason.