Hard to do when more things are required to be online and call back to a server they control
That's basically the entire crux of the Stop Killing Games "demands." That these games have an end of life plan that involves removing these features once they decide to stop supporting it.
While the title is intentionally inflammatory, the things its asking for are so basic and logical that the only real way to be against them is to admit to being extremely anti-consumer. Its why all the opposition to SKG had to intentionally misread and misrepresent it.
The catalog of games that either don't require this, or have a patched version that dosen't require this, is so large I don't have enough of one life to play all the games I find interesting, for the amount of time I want to play them.
I think we're hitting a saturation point where games are starting to be treated like books in terms of consumption. I don't need to read books that came out this year and are being marketed as the new hotness because I can just go to my local library and pick up something by Isaac Asimov or Tolkien or a hundred other authors whose great works have outlived them by several generations. Likewise I don't need to play games that are coming out this year if I can go scrounge up some masterpiece that was released six years ago.
The big players in the industry still haven't caught on to this new state of affairs despite how everyone and their dog has been memeing about their Steam backlog for over a decade now.
If nobody really owns games then 'piracy' if fair game.
“You will own nothing and like it.”
Goes both ways, faggots! Yar har!
I will pay nothing and I'll be happy.
That's basically the entire crux of the Stop Killing Games "demands." That these games have an end of life plan that involves removing these features once they decide to stop supporting it.
While the title is intentionally inflammatory, the things its asking for are so basic and logical that the only real way to be against them is to admit to being extremely anti-consumer. Its why all the opposition to SKG had to intentionally misread and misrepresent it.
The catalog of games that either don't require this, or have a patched version that dosen't require this, is so large I don't have enough of one life to play all the games I find interesting, for the amount of time I want to play them.
I think we're hitting a saturation point where games are starting to be treated like books in terms of consumption. I don't need to read books that came out this year and are being marketed as the new hotness because I can just go to my local library and pick up something by Isaac Asimov or Tolkien or a hundred other authors whose great works have outlived them by several generations. Likewise I don't need to play games that are coming out this year if I can go scrounge up some masterpiece that was released six years ago.
The big players in the industry still haven't caught on to this new state of affairs despite how everyone and their dog has been memeing about their Steam backlog for over a decade now.
Yep.
I will add that although AAA studios are rotting from woke parasitism, there are still plenty of great games made by smaller studios.
Colony management games are having a golden age.