Who saw this coming???
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circuitfarmer
joined 1 year ago
+1 for Pop. I fully expected to distro hop but have had it on my main rig for over a year now. Surprisingly pleasant.
This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.
Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.
The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone's throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.
Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.
The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.
But it wasn't worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn't really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.
They can. That's literally what data brokers do.
Sure. I'll be more clear next time. I think my original point still stands.
Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you -- depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That's my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.
I mean, I dont think it's controversial to say it is surprising that a game had an expansion in 2000 but and then only had any other after the HD re-release in 2013. 13 years is an eternity in gaming. That's my only point; I dont think it has anything to do with keeping "up to date".
Oh, I mean the OG expansion "The Conquerors". As far as I know that content is just included in the Definitive Edition now. But back in the day, it was the AOEII expansion.
AFAIK all the other DLC came after the Definitive edition re-release. My original point is that I didn't expect new expansions to what is ultimately a 90s game.
I legit never imagined I'd see another expansion for this game. I say expansion because we didn't call the others DLC back then.
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When will people stop supporting this clown?
Remember when some people were like "well, I don't support him, but I've had this Twitter account forever, so I'm not leaving." This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.