I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just stating that a broken unplayable game objectively has no value. The publisher has forced that value to 0 if they turn off their servers without support, regardless of if there was any value there before or not.
Edit:
I realize we might be talking about different things when saying "stop supporting". I meant that to mean when the servers are turned off, not when they stop releasing updates or delist it from stores.
My understanding is that this would force games to be sold as either a good (lasts forever) or a service (lasts a specific, advertized amount of time). It does not prevent service games from existing, it just stops them being sold as goods with an unspecified expiration date. The problem is consumers are uninformed about the lifetime of the game they are purchasing.
Yeah, leg day gets a lot harder when you're floating. Not to mention they're missing all the normal walking around and lifting gravity forces us to do...
There's even more use cases that come up, like being able to use emoji and other fancy symbols anywhere unicode is supported. So you can even program with them. People have taken that idea to the extreme just for fun: https://www.emojicode.org/
Would you rather send an entire JPEG over text message for an emoji? Or just 4 bytes of unicode right inline where you want it? Unicode having a standard set of emoji is actually incredibly useful and reduces complexity.
I guess it would disincentivize 👏 emoji 👏 spam 👏 to use JPEGs tho.
I don't really see the problem with restricting e-bike power. You can still go faster than 20mph if you pedal. I think what you really want is a motorcycle. They make those in electric form too.
A lot of what's driving these decisions is the mass switch to subscription models. Everything's designed so you have to keep coming back to the manufacturer.
It used to be making a high quality, standalone product meant you could spend less on customer service and RMA's. Now they've figured out they can sell you service contracts and make money off you being locked in.
It can start out a little like Office Space, doing all the standard tricks like walking in the front door with your arms full and in a hurry. And it always works.
Until they hit the final boss: an IT security worker who has built an impenetrable fortress inside the company. Then it turns into Mission Impossible.
I think it was assumed based on your use of command line and unix-like paths such as ~/Desktop, which do not work in Windows Command Prompt. (Powershell has aliases for unix commands like ls, so unix paths do work there)
I'm on the side of Retiring@lemmy.ml here, since I read the comments before the article. Without the articles' context I had no idea if this meant all-time usage, per year, or per month.
Since the link is right there though, which says per year, it's really not a huge deal.
Wait... that's not an approximation at all! That equals exactly pi.
If I understand the math correctly, it's effectively a formula for the area of a unit circle.
That does seem to be the point this thread is making: Going to space is really bad for Earth's environment. SpaceX and starlink are just accelerating that.
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I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just stating that a broken unplayable game objectively has no value. The publisher has forced that value to 0 if they turn off their servers without support, regardless of if there was any value there before or not.
Edit: I realize we might be talking about different things when saying "stop supporting". I meant that to mean when the servers are turned off, not when they stop releasing updates or delist it from stores.