Governments shouldn’t tell companies what value their products have. Consumers should simply not buy the product if they dont consider it a fair value.
Consumers should simply not buy the product if they dont consider it a fair value.
Does that work?
Think long and hard about your answer. Does that, in fact, have the effect you insist it must? Or are there abundant counterexamples, where greedy horseshit makes bank for negligible value?
Stop lying to me about my own comments, god dammit.
I am talking about how this product is sold. At no point did I propose not selling it. That’s just the absurd extreme you lot always make up, whenever someone suggests a specific and recent business model is exploitative greedy horseshit.
I want games sold.
What’s happening instead - the status quo you’re sloppily defending - is having games treated as bottomless pits where you can throw all your money, for asymptotically smaller fractions of content that’s already in the game. Or being a subscription service that also demands too much fucking money up-front, as if it was a concrete product being sold anew - and offering a bottomless pit where you can throw all your money.
That shit is what’s happening to every game. Every genre has this. Every platform has this. Single-player games have this. It is the dominant strategy. Everyone scoffing ‘just don’t buy it!’ has seen their glib advice accomplish precisely dick. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else. Only legislation will fix this.
Early access is a product. Your comment is asking for laws to prevent this product from existing. You are asking for early access products to be illegal. Your comment is literally that stupid. Not a single part of any of my comment has to do with the ethics of this practice, so stop lying to me about my own comments.
WoW is a service. You could almost call this expansion a product. Charging extra for three lousy days of early access is not a fucking product and not really a service either. It’s gouging. It’s charging extra just because you can get away with it. And market forces let companies get away with that, in a game that already takes fifteen dollars per month, so saying ‘just don’t encourage it’ would obviously accomplish zilch.
I’m accusing you of lying because you want to make it sound like I said “ban WoW” and not “just charge the normal amount the day of like any other product for fuck’s sake.”
You’re accusing me of lying because apparently you don’t know what discussing ethics means. I mean this as literally as possible: what the fuck do you think you’re doing? What activity are you engaged in, here and now? Do you just hit the keys because you like to hear them go clickity-clack?
Yeah god forbid we have laws about money. Can you imagine?
Governments shouldn’t tell companies what value their products have. Consumers should simply not buy the product if they dont consider it a fair value.
Does that work?
Think long and hard about your answer. Does that, in fact, have the effect you insist it must? Or are there abundant counterexamples, where greedy horseshit makes bank for negligible value?
Yes, it works. Source: Me, I don’t consider WoW’s costs to be a fair value for my time and interests, and have not bought their products or services.
It was really tough, though. I had to really fight my credit card who was just begging to be spent on WoW. But I pulled through.
Oh good, the protagonist of reality didn’t fall for it, so systemic issues aren’t real.
What a load… off my mind.
This isn’t a law about money, you’re proposing a law because a game is charging for early access lol. That is beyond stupid.
Consumer protection laws are entirely about your money.
This isn’t about money… this is about you not wanting a product to exist.
Stop lying to me about my own comments, god dammit.
I am talking about how this product is sold. At no point did I propose not selling it. That’s just the absurd extreme you lot always make up, whenever someone suggests a specific and recent business model is exploitative greedy horseshit.
I want games sold.
What’s happening instead - the status quo you’re sloppily defending - is having games treated as bottomless pits where you can throw all your money, for asymptotically smaller fractions of content that’s already in the game. Or being a subscription service that also demands too much fucking money up-front, as if it was a concrete product being sold anew - and offering a bottomless pit where you can throw all your money.
That shit is what’s happening to every game. Every genre has this. Every platform has this. Single-player games have this. It is the dominant strategy. Everyone scoffing ‘just don’t buy it!’ has seen their glib advice accomplish precisely dick. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else. Only legislation will fix this.
Early access is a product. Your comment is asking for laws to prevent this product from existing. You are asking for early access products to be illegal. Your comment is literally that stupid. Not a single part of any of my comment has to do with the ethics of this practice, so stop lying to me about my own comments.
WoW is a service. You could almost call this expansion a product. Charging extra for three lousy days of early access is not a fucking product and not really a service either. It’s gouging. It’s charging extra just because you can get away with it. And market forces let companies get away with that, in a game that already takes fifteen dollars per month, so saying ‘just don’t encourage it’ would obviously accomplish zilch.
I’m accusing you of lying because you want to make it sound like I said “ban WoW” and not “just charge the normal amount the day of like any other product for fuck’s sake.”
You’re accusing me of lying because apparently you don’t know what discussing ethics means. I mean this as literally as possible: what the fuck do you think you’re doing? What activity are you engaged in, here and now? Do you just hit the keys because you like to hear them go clickity-clack?