• Mischala@lemmy.nz
    101·
    10 months ago

    but we want more money… And therefore deserve it. I don’t see what the problem is here

    • every CEO ever, I presume
    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      Isn’t that a novel idea. Just work to make things better and if you succeed you have profits and if you don’t back to the drawing board.

      Ahhh, what a world we could live in. Back to slumming I guess.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    10 months ago

    Not just companies, you’ve got countries doing epic face-plants all over as well. We’re living in the Age of Dipshits ruining stuff for everyone.

  • betahack@lemmy.world
    556·
    10 months ago

    and you know what, it won’t matter. not one bit. because people are lazy and people don’t care or are indifferent.

    look at reddit. big uproar…for a few days, weeks. now pretty much back to normal.

    even myself, I still go back to certain communities because they don’t exist elsewhere. and like someone else said it’s not just software or platforms, it’s people and countries, etc. etc.

    it’s hard to make changes and have them stick. it’s even harder to convince people to leave the easy and known for the not so easy and unknown.

    and I think we’re going to see lots more…lots, lots more. it will be the new normal.

    • soloner@lemmy.world
      482·
      10 months ago

      I still left Reddit and unity and haven’t returned. Some people do care. Not everyone is indifferent.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      271·
      10 months ago

      And god forbid you point out the fact that this attitude among consumers is exactly the reason these companies are brazen enough to pull this shit. People don’t want to hear how their attitudes around instant gratification and focus on convenience over absolutely all else just might have consequences.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      14·
      10 months ago

      Unity was the biggest stumble.

      Publishers hate surprise fees, distribution platforms absolutely won’t pay per download, developers (companies) are stretching budgets as it is, and the individual developers are quick to anger and will hold a grudge for eternity.

      They really gutted themselves.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
        5·
        10 months ago

        The stupid idea went forward despite warning from people within the fucking company, no less. All because they wanted to get some of Hoyogames (Genshin and Honkai Impact)'s juicy profits

    • Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      I went to reddit for Valve memes, but now I decided to make my own community here for it. The only problem is NO ONE ELSE FUCKING POSTS!

      • themusicman@lemmy.world
        9·
        10 months ago

        What’s the Lemmy community? I’m already subbed to sourcememes.

        Edit: oh yeah that’s just you. Enjoying your content and will try to post occasionally

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    10 months ago

    Don’t forget Hasbro trying to pull a retroactive licensing for all D&D stuff. Oh, and sending the Pikertons to harass a person that got set of cards before release by accident

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      111·
      10 months ago

      Sending Pinkertons after a civilian was extremely fucked up, especially for a fuckup they made. The Pinkertons are basically a neo-nazi militia.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
          31·
          10 months ago

          Sadly the cold war saved them by the bell just before they had their last kneecaps shattered. (Hmmm! I wonder why the cold war happened!!)

  • KredeSeraf@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    I still can’t believe all that BS and with the escapist, losing Yhatzee must be a devastating blow to their value.

    • Tech With Jake@lemm.ee
      15·
      10 months ago

      They’ve released a couple of his pre-recorded videos but turned off the comments. They know they fucked up. 🤣

          • Aram855@feddit.cl
            4·
            10 months ago

            The people who left The Escapist created a new channel, Second Wind. Among them is Yhatzze, who has created a new version of ZP (since that one was copyrighted by Escapist) called Fully Ramblomatic.

            • KredeSeraf@lemmy.world
              3·
              10 months ago

              Also a new version of Extra Punctuation called Semi Ramblomatic. Both the same as their predecessors in spirit while being different enough to be legally distinct. All available free on Youtube.

  • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
    263·
    10 months ago

    I mean it’s a bit more complicated than that. In the past not every company had to be profitable. They were just focusing growth over everything else. But with rising cost due to inflation and rising interest rates they suddenly have to become profitable. And then they proceed to make to worst ever business decisions, to become profitable, but achieve the exact opposite.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      162·
      10 months ago

      It’s a pretty severe contradiction of capitalism: When everyone is out to extract as much money as possible, all of it is going to go to whoever the best at doing that, leaving very little for everyone else. This capital isn’t being used to better the human race, it’s sitting in an offshore bank account, funding far right death squads and/or genocides, or being spent on the most vile of child exploitation.

    • Tamo@programming.dev
      14·
      10 months ago

      Its simple greed and disdain for their users that they somehow believe if they begin to charge for something that used to be free the use base will simply eat it and be happy.

      • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        The problem is they arr charging for a service with attention (ads) and user info currencies that people do not value as much and cannot be easily quantified. This then makes people complacent and lets companies reach for more information, leading to the current enshitification of the internet

  • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months ago

    Unity has been shitty since they merged with Ironsource. They’re an Ad company now (notice how mobile ads sometimes have the familiar Unity logo now? Yeah that’s why)

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      23·
      10 months ago

      If they’re doing better than ever, then why are they trying to constantly hack through my ad blocker now in a desperate attempt to show me an ad one way or another? I’m always gonna be one step ahead. They lost the game before they started. But they still won’t give up for some reason. That’s a lot of resources for a company to spend on someone that will never give a shit and keep blocking the ads.

        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
          7·
          10 months ago

          booting the babies who won’t pay or watch ads

          There are two ways that would happen. One is with IP bans, and even then, there are still ways around it. And if they start doing that, they’ll start to cut off legitimate users with dynamic IP addresses that change often. The other is by dropping ad supported services completely and moving to a fully paid model. And I doubt they have enough people who give enough of a shit to start giving YouTube actual money for the bullshit that’s on there.

          Like I said, they lost the game before they started. They will never shake off the freeloaders without seriously kneecapping their company.