Billions in profit. Billions. Spent years ravenously gobbling up game studios. And now they're chopping them down so they can keep .000001% more gain this fiscal year.
Fuck workers, art, games, players, the industry's future, basic decency. NUMBER GO UP FOREVER
@Emmadrime I worked (in marketing) for techie companies long enough to know that … well, never rely on a techie company for something that's important to you.
That's why I don't use any online RPG tools. RPGs are important to me and getting hooked on a techie product for them is a recipe for heartbreak. I don't rely on them for my music (all my music is local, not streamed). I don't rely on them for my writing efforts (fountain pen and paper, thanks).
I'm a latecomer to video games. They were sanity-saving when the plague hit and it was wisest to stay home. The potential and scope for interactive storytelling is amazing. What we mostly get instead, especially from the big corpos, is a bit saddening. It's the gaming industry that added phrases like "minimum viable product" to my vocabulary. bleeeeeeeh
Good on you for not streaming music. That industry is doing everything it can to starve all the artists to death.
@Emmadrime Unfortunately I didn't do this on a moral stance. I did it on a practical stance before the immorality of streaming services started to shine clearly: I don't trust tech firms to not delete everything unless I have a copy of my own.
I don't use cloud storage without local copies. Cloud storage is convenient, but companies deciding to shut it down is a risk, so I always have local. Same with streaming. Except I don't find streaming convenient because I hate interruptions in music.
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