And once again, dracula is dead.From time to time, the digital monstrosity originally created by IBM that tries once again to convince the public about it's digital nightmare.A world where you don't own a computer, but rent computing time from a remote server.The personal computer was a response to this dream, one so hard that even IBM itself had to accept it, and it was games that killed the dracula originally.So every subsequent resurrection tries to convince people that play games first, as they're the hardest customers.Hopefully, humanity will never get dumb enough to accept him, because once he gets in, he's not leaving.
Poor Goliath
They're giving premium membership to a service being discontinued?
it's time for your medicine Timmy.
>>736825027>does nothing >winsHow does Gabe do it bros?
>>736825027How long until Amazon gets sick of Twitch's shit, and sells them off? lol
>>736825086>ultimately, Goliath lostThat was the fucking point of the story, you'd think Jews would know this shit
>>736825027>Another digital only/ streaming game format dies>It's Amazon Thanks for the rejuvenating news Anon, I'm gonna sleep real good tonight. I might even celebrate with some gummy and star fox 64>>736825148That's that big corpo thinking, Anon>>736825305Not soon enough
>>736825305Never anon, twitch is their guinea pig for ai and the reason Aws (Amazon web services) exist, alone just for marketing reasons, it is also detrimental to run twitch at a loss
So, who's the next one to "revive dracula"?
>>736825086The fact that it took a "senior leader" with supposedly keen insight into market trends and consumer habits literal years and billions of dollars burned to figure this out is what's wrong with the corporate economy today.
>>736825782Tencent. They will be shuttered due to problematic wrongthink by China and all money will be confiscated and apps closed.
>>736825086They missed the key part of why they lost: people don’t want to stream shit and they want to be able to play offline.
>>736825027This anime looking thing destroyed Zuck metaverse with 80 bln investment
>>736825086How out of touch do you need to be to realise that people like familiarity and good upfront service only AFTER you spend millions/billions in trying to upend the market?It's like that Nintendo shareholder meeting where they were asking why the leadership were talking about vidya, maddening.
>>736826289Just because people in the past literally soldered their own computers in their garages because terminal shit was bullshit, it don't mean they will keep wanting it forever.
>>736825086>people will stay with what they know unless you offer them something betterwowtruly this is arcane esoteric knowledgebravo ethan
>>736825027All of you blackpill faggots proven wrong again. Cloud gaming will never be a thing
>>736826449>out of touchMost corporate senior leadership these days does not use their own products and is completely unaware of what their consumer base wants or needs. They are where they are because they are really good at kissing ass or because they got lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
>>736825086>all of that to reach the basic conclusion that:>just because you are big enough to build something doesn't eman people will use itThis is what happens with a society that hates intellectuality and thinking by principle, a phenomenology 101 course for every college studed would sort this out.
You could make the entire library free and I still wouldn't move over.
>>736825086>The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam.Sounds like incompetence.
>>736825027How much lost media is Amazon creating daily?
>>736826860I have like 300 free games on epic and just now realized I don't even have it installed after reformatting months ago. The UI is just so shit I don't bother using it.
>>736827023It is>we tried literally everything but the most obvious stuff
What happens to all the free games I claimed through Prime Gaming? Will those be gone?
>>736827316Probably. Some of them I got from twitch were deleted years ago. I bet the same thing happens here too.
>>736827316That's the beauty of streaming, if there's no computer streaming, you can't play em.
>game serviceThis is the problem.You should only purchase digital software as products.Buying a game on GOG is just as safe as buying a physical copy, because you can download the installer and back it up to physical media if you want.Buying a game on Steam without DRM is basically the same thing, but you'll need to understand a little more about computers to be able to preserve your game. If the only DRM is the Steam launcher (stemaworks), it's the same thing. It takes a few extra steps, but you can back up your game and access it without relying on any service.Now, if you have a game that requires Denuvo, or any other strong DRM, then you have no guarantee that you'll be able to play it tomorrow. Note: This was also true for physical games in the past. If you lost the instruction manual for a game like Papyrus' Indy Car Racing, which had a thick manual, you literally couldn't play your own game because of the copy protection.
>>736828056It is kinda funny to think the lengths that people go for copy protection, including putting in shit that makes it impossible to boot the game if the devs go under/IP gets sold/some shit like that.It's like they still think they will still be selling the game 20 years later.
>>736828131So instead they should just make everything free? That's not how capitalism works.
>>736828131Boomer logic. The idea that nothing matters once you're gone, that you have no responsibility to the world you leave behind.
>>736828537I unno, if they aren't selling it at all then what's the point?
>>736828537Don't shoot yourself in the foot by making your product less valuable, and pay for it in the process.A game that will work 40 years from now is more valuable to the consumer than one that only last 10.And you paid extra to make the game only last 10
This was always the plan, lure people in by letting them bring stuff over and try out the cloud, and if it worked for them (The very small subset of people who have stable enough internet to support it at decent speeds with low input delay) they hook them in with cheap subs and shit.It's the same thing stadia did, but amazon tried to allow people to access it solely with purchases, but that's not financially viable, so now people will ahve to pay to access the shit they already bought, lmao
>>736828601>what's the point?Law might require them. While there is no "abandonware" in reality, they still need to protect their IPs etc. so as not to lose their rights to it.>>736828692>less valuableAgain, that's not how capitalism works. The value lies in how much money they can make from it. If everything was free (to pirate) they wouldn't get any money.
>>736826617It was always shills trying to convince people to give up and join the farm. Like demons, so long as you ignore them, they wither away.
>>736825027blackpillers lost again>NOOO THEY ARE ALL MOVING US TO A CLOUD BASED COMPUTING ONLY FUTUREYou lost.
>>736828805I'm not a "make everything free" advocate.Just a "stop spending in money in things that make you profit even less".Every cent you spent in some retarded anti-piracy system could go to marketing or getting your product to new markets.In the old times, most of the world could not even buy PC games legally.
>>736828805IP law is such a fickle thing, but I doubt that they force people to implement DRM. There would be nothing stipulating in IP law that after the game is no longer being sold that you have to keep the DRM in place.
>>736828812>Like demons, so long as you ignore them, they wither away.
>>736825086Deserved for what they did (or were planning to do) to Blue Protocol.
>>736825027>NO NOOOOO NOOO WE’RE THE BIGGEST SO WE SHOULD WIN WE SHOULD WIN NOOOOOO NO ITS ANTISEMITISM STEAM IS EVIL NO NOOOOOOget fucked you stupid retardcan’t do mmos, cant do moba hero shooters, cant do game marketplaces just fuck off
>>736829003>Every cent you spent in some retarded anti-piracy system could go to marketing or getting your product to new markets.But at the same time, you might be losing X amount of money, because of piracy. I think DRM systems make a lot of sense, from the business side of things.>In the old times, most of the world could not even buy PC games legally.I've been a PC gamer since the early 90s, and I'd be really curious to hear your claims to this. Are you from Brazil or Ukraine or some place like that? Everyone in the western world certainly could buy all the games they wanted to.>>736829102>I doubt that they force people to implement DRMMaybe not. But it doesn't make any sense to make your product more easily available, without any monetary compensation.
>>736829324>But it doesn't make any sense to make your product more easily available, without any monetary compensation.I paid for your game, I should be given legal ownership of my copy of the game. Put in DRM or whatever the fuck while you are still selling it (I'll hate it but whatever), but don't put in stupid shit that makes my own copy not work when you get fucked in the ass and collapse.I think that is the barest of minimums people ask for.
