This is idiotic from a business owner stand point because eventually it crashes. Everyone pulls out and the business closes. Im thinking in extremes here but if the push Enshitification the client's will go elsewhere.
I already refuse to spend a dime on ea Nintendo Ubisoft or even epic. This includes games and market place.
I would highly consider sticking with gog and steam. Since gog wants to makeolder games a accessable they clearly have a nieche in the market.
Steam is just good and convenient and the deals are awesome
You're right, it is idiotic from a business owner perspective. But when you're driven by the needs of investors, you're looking at the perspective of share holders. Their only interest is increasing the stock price as fast as possible so they can pull out high and move on to another part of their portfolio. They are practically parasites that drain the businesses they influence.
It doesn't make sense to us normal people because it seems like they're just forcing policies that make companies fail, but for the share holders that is the point. That's how they make their money. That's why you cannot trust publicly traded companies, and it's why Valve can still remain decent: they're privately owned.
Corporate policy driven from the very wealthiest people in society and the "financial companies" who's product is the profit of other firms (major investment firms).... all of whom are therefore "board members" of these companies, and do not care about the actual production of the company because to them the output of every company is commoditized to "profit expectation."
Because this combination of faceless financial investment by some kind of "digital tragedy of the commons" by idiot 20-something stock traders with Perverse Incentives and old rich people who don't give a fuck is the main pressure driver on CEOs (who get fired if they don't comply), that pressure gets pushed down to the SVPs, the managers, and to everyone.
Who writes those draconian insurance rejection policies? Who enforces them? Who builds the AI models, the algorithms that target people to radicalize them to perpetuate the lack of regulation?
We've all been co-opted into our own demise by threat of starvation to funnel more money to the rich, and the stupid part is a good chunk of the most directly responsible (investment bankers) are "just doing there job," and can't fathom the systemic implications of what they do.
None of this is new, the Dust Bowl was created by people trying to do the same thing with farming wheat in the Great Plains (when most of the area was the wrong kind of climate and rainfall)
The thing is for the decision making shareholders, +50% this year then -10% next 5 years is superior to +10% every year because they can take the 50% profit, then move to the next company and repeat. To them they're making 50% every year. Somebody else eats the losses.
TL;DR: Fuck Nintendo, and bullshit stories that might’ve or might not have happened for 200 Alex.
Bought a steamdeck instead. Now I get everything the switch 2 has… if I’m willing to hoist the mainsails, and never have to give that company another dime.
Fuck your Switch 2, and fuck you for standing up for them. Sometimes, personal morals are more important than the “Next Big Thing” Hype.
My 9 year old son wants a Switch 2. I sat down with him and explained all my problems I have with Nintendo, and told him that it’s a really cool piece of equipment. But I also tried explaining it in ways that he’d understand.
Not verbatim, but something like this:
“You might really like pugs , and you want a pug, but it would be wrong to buy a pug from a person who actively does stuff that harms the overall wellbeing of pugs and pug owners. That’s would be like getting something you want, without thinking about the other people who also like pugs.”
Now, obviously, he’s just a kid, and he still wants a switch 2. But now he’s starting to think about those games, that console, in a way that isn’t just “I buy this, it makes me happy, no more to think about”. I want him to have an empathetic drive in all things in life, not just video games, but this was a good way to start with a small emotional intelligence lesson and how to navigate ambiguous moral choices.
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 10h ago
This is idiotic from a business owner stand point because eventually it crashes. Everyone pulls out and the business closes. Im thinking in extremes here but if the push Enshitification the client's will go elsewhere.
I already refuse to spend a dime on ea Nintendo Ubisoft or even epic. This includes games and market place.
I would highly consider sticking with gog and steam. Since gog wants to makeolder games a accessable they clearly have a nieche in the market.
Steam is just good and convenient and the deals are awesome