Things you enjoyed until they got greedy - How corporate greed killed every hobby

[Neodanthril]

mainly after they lost the FIFA license because they didn't want to pay to renew the license for it.

how retarded do you have to be to not want to pay the fee for the infinite money printer.

 

[anliteralidiot]

There are plenty of purists in gaming, it's just that they mostly keep to themselves when having their gay retarded internet slapfights over what constitutes a roguelike vs a roguelite or whether or not it should be called a "soulslike" or "soulsborne".

I thought soulslike referred to games that were similar, but soulsbourne were games from From...

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The bottom of the barrel was the planes movie which was astoundingly lazy and fucking retarded, the worst part is that the main plane guy fucks a jeet plane woman. The only good thing about that movie is that the plane race starts at John F. Kennedy International Airport, which confirms that the JFK assassination is canon in the Cars universe .

Not just that but World War II, so as /tv/ has pointed out there's a Cars Rape of Nanking, a Cars D-Day, and laws that prohibit suggesting that six million automobiles were scrapped in concentration camps is a bit of an implausible number.

 

[Targeted Individual]

Not just that but World War II, so as /tv/ has pointed out there's a Cars Rape of Nanking, a Cars D-Day, and laws that prohibit suggesting that six million automobiles were scrapped in concentration camps is a bit of an implausible number.

>Ein Autovolk, ein Autoreich, ein Autoführer!

 

[Jogger The Nogger]

Modern MTG and most recent books and films. Also the stagnation of car designs.

 

[Fishnumm]

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>Ein Autovolk, ein Autoreich, ein Autoführer!

ive seen one of hitlers staff cars before its pretty cool

 

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

Ordering pizza used to be fun. Now it's so expensive that I have backed out of the food delivery app several times after seeing the prices. Even ordering large pizzas for multiple people is not worth it anymore and many places stopped offering these altogether.
I'd rather get the pizza from the store because the quality of some of these is quite decent, it's not the same as ordering one but at the same time the price to quality ratio is good enough to consider these as a viable substitute. I also make my own pizzas from time to time but that's heavily dependent on having the right ingredients at hand, so it's not as spontaneous as I would like it to be.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

My previous boss. Suddenly he started cutting corners everywhere and the job went to absolute shit, to the point where a $500k order fucking fell apart after delivery thanks to glorious chink steel.

 

[Shining Wit]

how retarded do you have to be to not want to pay the fee for the infinite money printer.

All they've lost is the FIFA name and the FIFA competitions (so World Cup and Club World Cup), all other licences remain so players and clubs are real. 99% of players and revenue are in Ultimate Team so its not like they've actually lost anything by not having FIFA comps

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Even ordering large pizzas for multiple people is not worth it anymore and many places stopped offering these altogether.

That's because the package has to fit inside those fucking cubes you see being carried by all those traffic offender nogs and unidentifiable brownoids. (Where did they all suddenly come from? Those around don't even look like usual jeets, arabs or anything I'd recognize, it's, like, an entirely new race of ugly brown man)

 

[Jogger The Nogger]

Also Lord of the Kangz by Amazon.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Sports games. I get the sperging in here, but if you go back 2 decades to 2005, you had a ton of features and more robust modes within a game. Now, due to exclusivity contracts with leagues plus corpos making millions off of kids gambling for virtual cards, they get away with releasing bare bones glitchy games.

 

[Shart Attack]

Used to like a TTRPG live-play podcast called The Glass Cannon Podcast. As with a lot of internet media, it started off as passionate hobbyists making a show about a thing they enjoyed. The production values were good, and they weren't as insufferably self-indulgent as Critical Role. Then, as with a lot of internet media, they stopped doing it as a hobby and started doing it as a full-time job. Every episode started to open with a 10- to 15-minute ad for their Patreon and "Glass Cannon Nation." Around the same time, they signed a deal with Paizo, the owners of the Pathfinder TTRPG system, after which they mysteriously stopped having any criticisms of Pathfinder. Then they started inserting five-minutes ads before their own in-episode Patreon ads, which can't be avoided even with the usual trick of setting your VPN to a country where iTunes / Spotify / etc. are legally prevented from inserting ads before a podcast. My hatred for ads forced me to stop listening to them after that point.

Greed has ruined live music. Just now I picked some random Indiana concert venue and looked up costs for Lainey Wilson, some country singer I've never heard of. The only way to buy tickets for her show is through Ticketmaster, of course, and the only tickets left are all marked "verified resale," which means some pajeet scalper who set up a bot to mass-purchase entire sections. They want $200 each for lawn seats and $1100 (!!!) for the front-center section. That's not even for front-row tickets, just somewhere in the middle of that section. People will variously blame Ticketmaster, the scalpers, the artists, and the government, but the bottom line is that one or more greedy fucks have priced a lot of middle class out of seeing live popular* music. (*Classical performances and opera are ironically more affordable than country music now.)

Books. Anyone who reads in any serious capacity will tell you that in order to find consistently good reading material, you need to go back decades.

Beyond even just the writing quality, the production quality of books seems to be going down the toilet in the name of cost savings. In the early 00s, even those $5 Signet Classics paperbacks were printed on paper of reasonable quality for the price. Half the books I buy anymore are printed on tissue paper with ink that smudges when I touch it, even higher-priced hardcover editions.

 

[Irregardless]

Ordering pizza used to be fun. Now it's so expensive that I have backed out of the food delivery app several times after seeing the prices. Even ordering large pizzas for multiple people is not worth it anymore and many places stopped offering these altogether.
I'd rather get the pizza from the store because the quality of some of these is quite decent, it's not the same as ordering one but at the same time the price to quality ratio is good enough to consider these as a viable substitute. I also make my own pizzas from time to time but that's heavily dependent on having the right ingredients at hand, so it's not as spontaneous as I would like it to be.

Oof, yea, pizza has gotta be one of the worst.

A large pizza at your average pizzeria is 20 fucking dollars these days.
That doesn't include sides, drinks, or desserts, and even shittier, if you want additional toppings, those are an extra $1.50 each, or $2.50 each if you want the premium toppings (meat)

 

[TheLostMarxBrotherFucko]

Halloween. Corporations, Chinesium factories, and consoomers are in the process of ruining it like they ruined Christmas.

My fellow. All holidays are pretty much that, but it is the only time people put effort into seeing each other.

It's not just McDonald's, the other fast food places all have some flavor of this shittiness.

I blame the bullshit around the Covid pandemic. So many places died and those that did never recovered the staff that they once did. Plus Amerimutts would never give up their slop.

 

[Sugriva]

Indie game releases.
The vast majority of indie games these days release as an Alpha or Beta build, and then just coast for the next 1-2 years before releasing the 1.0 build.

It wouldn't be as bad if the Alpha or Beta was just an already completed/mostly completed version of the game looking for feedback for potential changes or bug reports.
The problem is that's rarely the case these days and a lot of Indie games are released as literally half a game, with the rest of the game being released over the next year or so until they release the 1.0 build.

Idk about everyone else but I don't like the idea that I buy a game, enjoy playing it, and then 10 hours in I can no longer progress because the creators are still making the second half of the game.

Then you'll see games on Steam that say "newly released" and they'll have 1k+ reviews, then you find out, "Oh, this game came out 2 years ago, they're just re-releasing it essentially to bring in more money"

I read recently that games that release a 1.0 after being in early access for awhile see more sales in that first week than a game that just fully releases. I think it tricks people into thinking the game must have a ton of content/be more polished because it spent a lot of time in EA.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I will accept my autism stickers, Pokemon. Well, Nintendo in general, really. I don’t think I really need to elaborate on that.

The fact they are willing to condemn the games industry to being nothing but patent trolling all to spite Palworld is insane to me. They were also the first to jump in with the price hikes. $80 base price for a game (not counting DLC and special editions) that might not even be on the cart.

You will. Pokémon was an immediate success and milked every second of it. How are they doing anything new?

I think it's more of what they aren't doing. Not a pokemon fan, but the games have supposedly dropped dramatically in quality, which is part of why Palworld got the big break it did. I also remember a bit of hype for Yokai Watch when that came out, but nothing really came of it.

Idk about everyone else but I don't like the idea that I buy a game, enjoy playing it, and then 10 hours in I can no longer progress because the creators are still making the second half of the game.

Even 1.0s are like that. Abiotic Factor is a good example. It ends with a to be continued after the final boss. Unlike Half-Life's ending, this one just feels like a random boss fight from nowhere, then the game halts.

a rotating selection of items, some of which were heavily promoted and disappeared as quickly as they came,

I remember Americans always getting hyped when the McRib came back.

Warhammer is on a direct path to ending up like d&d or MTG at this rate

At least DnD was destroyed by retarded politics. It might have been better if they had leaned on the success of Critical Role and BG 3. At least that way, it wouldn't have devolved in Wakanda, prom night, and gay dwarf baristas.

Amazon

Amazon in general. If you don't have prime, so many of the results are from chinese sellers.

 

[Santiago_Nasar]

That's because the package has to fit inside those fucking cubes you see being carried by all those traffic offender nogs and unidentifiable brownoids. (Where did they all suddenly come from? Those around don't even look like usual jeets, arabs or anything I'd recognize, it's, like, an entirely new race of ugly brown man)

Theyre called Venezuelans

 

[Irregardless]

Even 1.0s are like that. Abiotic Factor is a good example. It ends with a to be continued after the final boss. Unlike Half-Life's ending, this one just feels like a random boss fight from nowhere, then the game halts.

Funny you mention that, because I was literally thinking of Abiotic factor when I wrote it lmfao.
I fucking loved the game, played it from initial beta launch last year, and have played every single expansion they've released.

I think Abiotic factor is the best case scenario for that type of release schedule.
Very large updates, not a crazy long wait, responded to feedback with positive changes, and if you bought the game last year you didn't pay anything extra for all the content.
That being said, every time I hit the end of the current story it was sort of depressing knowing that it'll be a while before the next update comes out, and with a game like Abiotic factor I feel it's most fun on a continuous playthrough.

I think it's more of what they aren't doing. Not a pokemon fan, but the games have supposedly dropped dramatically in quality, which is part of why Palworld got the big break it did. I also remember a bit of hype for Yokai Watch when that came out, but nothing really came of it.

I'm not a huge fan, but I've kept up with it a bit. The issue isn't really just the drop in quality, the quality is way shittier now, but at the end of the day most people who play Pokémon now play it for the gameplay loop, catch, train, battle, and as far as I'm aware those aspects are still good enough.

The bigger issue I, and many others have though is the lack of game diversity. It was one thing for all the games to be the same like 10-15 years ago, but the audience for Pokémon today are like mid 20's-30's and would like to see more from the multi-billion dollar franchise then just turn based battle games, a single styled RPG series (Mystery dungeon) and a few one offs like the Pokémon MOBA.

Where's the Pokémon RTS? The FPS? The roguelike? The horror game? The MMORPG? Sure Nintendo/Game Freak have tried a few things, but there is a huge desire for a different type of Pokémon media, and they are way too big to not have the resources, so many just see it as laziness and a lack of respect for the fans.

 

[Grand Duke Snowfall]

Where's the Pokémon RTS? The FPS? The roguelike? The horror game? The MMORPG? Sure Nintendo/Game Freak have tried a few things, but there is a huge desire for a different type of Pokémon media, and they are way too big to not have the resources, so many just see it as laziness and a lack of respect for the fans.

We’ve seen a bit of that with the spinoff games, but those have really been neglected. Shame, it would be cool to see a remaster of Pokemon Conquest.

I also remember a bit of hype for Yokai Watch when that came out, but nothing really came of it.

I wish Yokai Watch had picked up more traction in the West. The first game definitely had its flubs, mainly a weak plot, but the second game improved on a lot of things. I’d love to play the third, but finding a physical copy is hard and expensive since so few of them were made, and my technologically illiterate ass doesn’t know any good emulators. The mobile game was also pretty fun, still sad that it got shut down.