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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023)::undefined

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[–] jordanlund 52 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Forget about features and prices, how about actual content?

2017 I buy this space shooter game called "Destiny 2". It has some problems, but it's decent enough. $60 buy in. The single player story missions took you through four initial planets/moons, the European Dead Zone, Titan, Nessus, and Io, recovering your power and kicking the asses of the space turtles who tried to kill everyone.

Expansion 1, 2, 3 and 4 come out widening the story, adding more locations, Mercury, Mars, The Tangled Shore and the Dreaming City, the Moon... with all the associated story missions, strikes, raids...

And I bought in on those too. Some hundreds of dollars.

Roll forward to 2020, almost 2,000 hours in game. Bungie decides they're done with story missions and removes them from the game. They also decide that the game is "too big" for new players to get into, and seeking a Fortnite, free to play style audience, removes 1/2 of the content from the game.

Existing players like me drop the game because content we paid good money for and hours we spent exploring, collecting and curating gear, just went up in smoke.

New players now have no onboarding point and are incredibly confused because there's no story and no real way to get into the game.

So Bungie managed to completely alienate both their existing user base, and the one they hoped to attract.

Oh, and they have now promised not to do it again, but at the same time, haven't brought the content back either.

It's an online service as a game too, so piracy is not an option. The only way to experience the original content is through YouTube videos.

https://youtu.be/EVH865r2J8k

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I was interested in playing at some point and it was around when they took out content that I was considering it. Then I find out it's missing the beginning and because of FOMO I'm like, nah I won't even bother then because if I do end up liking the game I'll just end up sad or annoyed that there's parts I'll never get to experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/EVH865r2J8k

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Neither thief nor beggar, Giveth away the feast. Were pauper the king, all given to the lean?

[–] billwashere 3 points 9 months ago

If peasant had plenty, Would bounty cease to mean? If all were filled with fortune Would soul stay swept clean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For the life of me my Google-flu is not turning up a source for this quote. I'd like to read it on context

[–] damnthefilibuster 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would happen if you have the Google-flu. You should take some Bing-iene to cure yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Haha, take my upvote, dad

[–] jaybone 2 points 9 months ago

Is a pauper not usually also a beggar?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this was a comment here over a week ago.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some version of the phrase has been around for a couple years at least

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

whoa, next thing you're gonna tell me is that the "you are the product" one hasn't been coined by Lemmy either!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

this is so true