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Whilst your opinion here is totally valid, it's worth knowing that as a coop player of the mana games, you are a very, very small minority of players.

Almost everyone plays these games single-player, so they need to focus on that first. You're right that the secret of mana means coop for a lot of people, but also, it's worth understanding that almost everyone doesn't experience that.

how is the "commercial" avenue supposed to make profit if nasa isn't funding it. and if it can't, isn't it just a government program?

the dead end of commercial space is that it can only function as a factor of government work. it's not a viable industry by itself.

you can see this tale play out time and time again in other industries that have had the same problem, it doesn't end well, it ends badly.

also you don't need to do the big text

Terrible headline.

He (rightly) sees the commercial aspect of space technology to be a deadend, but nasa is spending a huge amount of time and effort working towards enabling it in favour of doing nasa things.

Instead of saying we should go to the moon because it is there, we're saying go to the moon to try to generate new revenue streams for the private space industry that really can't survive without our contracts because of there being no real market or industry to build from.

The tos applies to their service, that is, they have a cloud service, and you have to abide the tos to use it. It doesn't factor into hardware or software specifically but their hardware and software might not work without the service

where there’s demand, they still let you become its permanent owner. (

this is not true. in-fact it is seen as a marketing tool for the subscription services. market-forces do not naturally lead to the outcome you are describing.

it is also not the "exception" that something isn't available, it's an exception when a subscription service does release a purchasable option.

Indeed it's getting more and more common that not only will shows/movies be unavailable for purchase, but deleted from the subscriptions too.

it's super easy to jailbreak a 3ds now, worth it just to remove the stupid region lockout. 3ds dot hacks dot guide has a super simple step by step idiot proof guide on how to install the jailbreak which turns off the region lockout

you can buy some individual films and tv programs, you can not buy many, if not the majority of modern film/tv shows.

I would argue that there are three kinds of game subscriptions right now

• gamepass, paid for by azure/office. goal to turn the industry into a subscription service based industry like everything else has been converted into
• trying-to-keep-up-with-gamepass: this is ps+ (extra|premium), it exists as a failing effort to keep up with gamepass. it has to make money and thus users don't see value in it. it either costs too much or doesn't provide enough for the cost
• fifa subscription

the last one has existed for a long time and doesn't really factor into the discussions people are having today. it's not really relevant. the other two are both a factor of each other and relevant to what we are talking about.

It's 2024 and you can't buy any individual movie or TV show you want, you have to buy access to literal Netflix or others as a subscription. Op is saying games are heading towards that.

a subscription model isn't necessarily the future or even what's most profitable for a company to offer (as Sony was recently acknowledging).

It's worth remembering that the goal of subscription services like gamepass is not to be the most profitable avenue. The goal is marketshare.

Microsoft lost, and Microsoft lost hard. Reportedly, the CEO wanted to exit gaming entirely after the Xbox One. They didn't based solely on the new business plan, which was to disrupt the market. Kill the existing model by offering super low-cost subscriptions (paid for by Azure and Office 365) and become the new encumbant of a new industry where you can jack up the prices and lower the cos(and quality) over a decade trying to chase profitability.

Subscriptions are not about revenue generation as every subscription model out there lowers revenue massively. It's about holding a larger share of the market so you can make money in other ways.

Would be massively surprised if this means anything else other than CoD which they got regulators worried about a little bit. they just want to reduce the eyeballs.

I feel like whenever i "tanked" a city in cities skylines, it was because of some awkwardness in the traffic system that comes about from chaos theory rather than anything city builderey, just not really about that.

its good to be clear that we are talking about a time period when people migrated to whatapp, and the reasoning for migrating to whatsapp. and how the 'text for free' thing wasn't a big motivator, (nor was it a new idea)

Heh, that's what I felt about city skylines. Maybe that's just the game

This seems a bit revisionist. Everyone had an amount of smses per month that were free in their contract.

People switched to whatsapp because it was better than sms.

eh no, of course they are. what you are describing is why their old model doesn't work. but they have huge numbers of locations, staff and brand identity. there is a lot they could do.

In other news, Amazon doesn't just sell books any-more. They are absolutely doing their employees (and i guess their shareholders.. bleh) a disservice by just dying instead of trying to save a company that has value.

Max Paynes are being remade by remedy right now.

I'll be surprised if they are still here on the other side of 2024. Absolutely sleep walking into oblivion.

at least 800 of them are "alarm clock" apps i swear, Nintendo's digital shovelware problem is horrendous. Valves is worse but they do at least give you tools to work with it