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Absolutely 100%.

I see some software companies jump on the subscription bandwagon and getting ideas from the gaming industry to exploit people as much as possible, to rake in even more money than usual, all the time instead of one-off lifetime purchases or annual purchases at least, to monthly subscriptions with even ranked tiers for more features, support and s uch.

They want us to only have online based access to everything and never have it offline and especially without payment upfront, nothing for free, nothing offline. All paywalled. I fucking hate that so much, its truly dystopian.

Even the deliberate transistion of games becoming "live services" instead makes me sick beyond words. Especially as a former aspiring game designer too.

https://www.juniperresearch.com/press/video-game-loot-boxes-to-generate-over-$20-billion

https://www.videogameschronicle.com...ore-than-1-million-per-day-despite-criticism/

Randy Bitchford has screwed over owners of Borderlands 2 MASSIVELY after owning the game for a maximum of 10 years now. Its fucking sickening what he's been doing to it. nothing is sacred to souless, greedy, sycophants like him.
I don't play video games and this is one of the reasons.
 
Thats exactly what I'm talking about too! Haha!

I wanted Photoshop for most of my life, especially when I was really into image editing and such but I got so used to the free software which has lasted me easily almost 20 years at least! Still going strong too for now! Ironically its called GIMP too LMAO! So awkward to mention it!

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But yeah, that online monthly subscription is what I hate so much. I refused to get into World of Warcraft MANY years ago due to that alone lol.
Gimp is shit but i've been using it when I waa younger. These days i almost stopped drawing at all
 

Peroroncino

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Kaido is more racist than both Aramaki and Zoro.
Aramaki doesn't discriminate based on race but based on WG affiliation
Kaido straight up said Onis are superior to humans and should rule over them not befriend them
At least he will let them live aramaki will kill thousands if his master st charloss tells him to
 

TheAncientCenturion

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This dude is really garbage, all he cares is his own shit theory or his shit reviere fanart, like how he praise himself to gain more fans, dude was okay in the past but evolve into garbage idiot who all cares about posing for his own image.
Lmfao no one else is mentioning it so he got sad and said it himself.

Making memes about yourself/the shit you did is so cringe too.
 
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Is the gaming industry that much worse than the rest of the entertainment industry?
Serious question bc I don't watch many movies/series either
Extreme work crunch, a lot of sexual and just downright misogynistic abuse, extreme financial manipulation/abuse, greed and such. Its a VERY long story.
Publishers/developers have openly worked with psychologists and gambling associations to turn games into the most addictive virtual casinos/gacha simulators they can and exploit people as much possible, just like casinos ofc and advertisers, the beauty and fashion industries and such ofc.

There was the GamerGate incident too which caused a massive civil war in the games industry back in 2014 I think and went on for a few years and almost made a full on resurgence not long ago either. All about intergrity of and ethics in gaming journalism and when those are abused and such too. Its complicated.
Think the nonsense with politics especially modern politics but put it into gaming and you get the idea.

Lots of issues with slavery, forced overtime (crunch) with no extra pay, Activision Blizzard workers idolising Bill Cosby for what he did, his crimes I mean specifically, stealing breast milk from working mothers at their headquarters and such.

Its an absolute downward spiral of depravity and despair.

 
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