And rockstar games require a rockstar account. Ubisoft requires an Ubisoft account. Microsoft requires an Xbox account ... For single player games too, at least one login.
Sony is late to the game but this complaint rings hollow to me when we only target them.
They all want the social side, and to various degrees add social and other features. With varying degrees of success too.
Headlines soon: "Residents gouging landlords"
If this shit doesn't stop, that's the final outcome. People are getting insanely desperate.
Right, gayness is a symptom of social media, and invented by the online liberals.
Try existing in the rural parts of the country where no one is "like you", and increasingly they claim all that "Hollywood media" is just propaganda.
Seeing people like yourself, actual real people, has a huge impact in helping kids avoid isolation and in some cases connect with communities and avoid suicide.
Feeling alone in the world is something teens are already prone to and this makes it so much worse for the LGBTQ kids out there. Their existence now being labeled on the same level as sexual content and gore.
Major difference is that TV and your examples aren't a firehose free for all of content. There is at least a minor barrier to entry. Which helps stem some of the tide at least.
Too many services with too low quality content.
Once Upon a Time Netflix premiered a handful of huge shows and movies a season. Then they got addicted to watch metrics and decided everything should be "second screen content" from a firehose.
Now I don't watch any Netflix original until it's concluded or has rave reviews, because it's likely to get canceled in season 1 or just not be worth watching at all. And in the rare case it is great, gets picked up, and have rave reviews, they can still fuck it up like The Witcher.
Every other network is pretty much guilty of this too. I'm so, so over it. They have made me actually long for the option of a singular cable-like license I could get, because they are so shitty at maintaining their services and their catalogs are so poor now.
I just roll my own now and host a Plex server, because fuck em.
Not worth installing the app for 2 days of content.
A week? Maybe that's a promotion.
This looks like a low budget Potionomics.
The same applies for Epic as well regarding piracy. Again it's just a matter of diversifying.
If I had to rebuy 100% of my games, Id never adopt Epic at all. Atleast this way the library has something of value as an alternative without costing me a fortune.
I'm thinking even farther back to their wretched Windows Live and then Games for Windows Live platform (now dead). MS is one of the biggest companies on earth and couldn't find a cohesive way to migrate that game ownership forward.
I just like to own the things I own. And I'm more worried about someone hijacking my account because they want some bullshit inventory item or something than getting banned for something toxic. Account theft is sadly still pretty common.
Sony music, in the CD music era.
Not good or acceptable, but also kind of lime blaming Amazon pharmacy for something azon logistics does. Could not be a more different part of the company.