Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoHas the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinionwww.gamesindustry.bizexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down12
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkHas the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinionwww.gamesindustry.bizAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareBroBot9000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-214 hours agoOne shiny red apple on a pile of rotting fruit does not make an apple pie. Games as a service was always enshittification wearing a trench coat. TF2 and MMOs back in the day were merely bait.
minus-squareacosmichippo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-212 hours agothey weren’t intentional bait, the MBAs just hadn’t invented all the ways to scam users with it yet.
minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 minutes agoWhile that might be true it was foreseeable. And they always do it.
One shiny red apple on a pile of rotting fruit does not make an apple pie.
Games as a service was always enshittification wearing a trench coat. TF2 and MMOs back in the day were merely bait.
they weren’t intentional bait, the MBAs just hadn’t invented all the ways to scam users with it yet.
While that might be true it was foreseeable. And they always do it.