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As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there's been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it's fine to disagree, I'm finding it suspicious that there weren't comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

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[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The implication that “games as a service” is somehow a positive for game preservation is its own kind of illiteracy.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense if you are completely consumer-brained and only see it as "companies will make less (live service) games if they are forced to support them/let them be community supported"

[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that a win win tho? Less live service games?

The industry is already horrible to work in.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No, remember, it only makes sense if you are consumer-brained

Less live service games = less consooming. Some people literally don't care about things that are in their best interest, they will happily pay $120 for a game that has pay2win microtransactions and requires a monthly subscription and will also shutdown after 18 months, as long as there is a new one to buy after it.

[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 1 points 17 hours ago

Well with the support that's come from mainstream gaming influencers, I hope the opinion has swayed in the opposite direction.