Let's recap... This industry:
1) Choked itself out with an over-saturation of live services (and numerous other anti-consumer monetization scams), each one designed to monopolize your time and money.
2) Made poor financial decisions because they'd rather pander to activist media and investors than customers.
3) Stuck by those poor decisions even when faced with the reality of plummeting software sales all around (yes I know a FEW games broke records, but overall software sales have been trending downwards at least on consoles. Why? Maybe see point 1 above...).
4) Picked a side (the losing side) in the culture war, drove away most of their paying customers, failed to replace them, and now that they realize their mistake are trying to "pivot back to center" as if they never told you to get lost in the first place. Sorry, but unless you go as hard FOR us as you did against us, we're not coming back. I'm done paying people who hate me, so you gotta fire all of them too.
5) As a side ...
Do you see a cuck in this photo?
By the way, I thought maybe it was just a fake meme.
Then I found the article: https://newsbeyonddetroit.net/2026/10/05/a-22-year-old-south-florida-woman-gave-birth-to-a-black-baby-boy-blames-it-on-too-much-coffee/
As i said last night, we can not use the corpo's terms for their garbage.
A license is when george invents a widget pattents it and bob wants to use that widget in his product.
A license is a permission slip. you don't sell permission slips, you sell products. a digital movie is the same thing as a physical vhs. there is no difference in the eyes of the public. the public sees these things as an asset, not a license. no reasonable person would assume that you got a license when you bought a movie. a reasonable person assumed you bought the movie.
this is also the difference between buying a product and buying the rights to something. no one thinks that buying a product means they have every right to take that product and resell copies of it. They do however think they have every right to back it up and transform it for their own private use.
it is unreasonable for these companies to sell you a license to something, with no definitive end date on unnegotiated terms. if they want to sell you a ...
