notpresent.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 29 March 2024
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@notpresent.bsky.socialMicrosoft offered a service, which included a bunch of games that people could play the way they wished. Tens of millions of Xbox players agreed, and paid real money for access. Now, because a bunch of consumers played the game "for free" id had to be gutted? No. This is unacceptable framing.
Show PostYou want to blame the model itself? Okay. Want to blame how the model allocated revenues to individual studios and games? Knock your socks off. Blaming the consumer for "playing the game for free"? That ain't it.
Show PostI'm tired of being this fired up all week. I should just go back on vacay or something.
Show PostI see I need to make a clearer point. Framing things this way puts the blame on the consumer - the consumer that spends hundreds of millions of dollars on subs every month - as though it is their fault for freeloading. But is it the consumer's fault that the model was built the way it was? No.
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