I’m not saying it will never happen but just wait and see where we are in like 5 years. People are acting like they’ll be able to play the new Mario Kart on their computer this time next year
Who knows what kind of nasty DRM they’ve got running this time around even if people can find a way to hack the console and dump games
Yeah, it’s like hubris mixed with group psychology (a lot of “we’s” gettin’ used) mixed with weird (over-)entitlement. Also see it be used in a semi-ableist way were people say it’ll be some autistic person who cracks it (either custom firmware or emulation) and stuff and they’ll just wait for them to do all the work for them. Like autistic people are their treat servants.
Online gamers are like this with Denuvo and video game DRM and piracy stuff too. As if piracy hasn’t gotten harder in the past 30 years and people are torrenting less and less. People used to distribute Amiga game cracks on floppies pretty openly and now you need to get a VPN or get on private trackers sometimes . We are not winning right now. We can’t even convince people to play the original Paper Mario: TTYD, a lot of people demanded it be ported to Switch before they’d replay it or try it for the first time.
I looked it up and apparently there has been no new crack of a Denuvo game in over a year. The strategy is to hope that it gets removed later and then cracked or that a game is on GamePass. If Denuvo’s license fees were lower or other DRM catches up piracy would be limited to old games and publishers/devs that don’t do DRM for internet cred
Doesn’t stop people from acting like it’s 2010
There a sense of denial from people treating this as their biggest problem this week. Spending power is about to crater with decades of economic development upended. We’re the verge of either truly reactionary or revolutionary conditions. It’s probably going to the former of course because people are still livid about consumer issues and see so much wall steet bets shit about shorting Nintendo like it even matters.
Not sure if I disagree or not. Sorry if I’m seeming pedantic. I guess it’s denial.
I don’t think it’s purely denial but uh, what’s that term for when you project a series or umbrella of things onto a single thing as like a form of psychological sublimation (don’t think that’s the right term either). It’s like synedoche but in reverse I guess? (EDIT: scapegoating I guess?) people are refusing to refer to the entire phenomenon and instead fixating on one example pretending the rest don’t exist. People can’t actually pinpoint the price of a lot of commodities, they just kinda’ know that they got less food in their grocery cart or they’re bank account has less money. Eggs and gas prices are the only thing I can think of, maybe meat-by-the-pound and milk too. Video games, at least console games, have had pretty clearly pegged prices and seeing that happen is just more obvious to people, especially when it’s going from 69USD to 70-80USD than eggs going from $3-5.550 or whatever. People also have the option to not buy a video game whereas they’re more powerless about food prices so there might be more political will to complain about it, especially when it’s even more obvious that the game prices don’t need to go up and Nintendo can’t even bother to give excuses why whereas the dairy, meet, egg lobbies have propagandists throughout society saying why prices go up sometimes.
Edit: Might also partially be that video game prices jumping strikes into the middle-class consumer bubble more than food prices. Also kids and younger folks living at home are consciously affected by the game prices because they might spend their allowance, etc. on it while they’re not usually buying groceries so there’s probably more young people talking about game prices on social media than slightly older, more responsible people.