Strife

We are watching the collapse of gaming and utter disrespect of players and the craft in real time, and we’re being gaslit to think it isn’t happening or that it’s somehow a good thing🚀 🗣️Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick argues that physical game discs make no sense for consumers 🗣️He also predicts that game streaming will be more commercial/mainstream in about 3 years due to the increasing prices of consoles and PC (Did he forget Stadia???) So hear me out: ✅PCs and consoles became more expensive due to data centers ✅Now they want you to rent out data centers instead of the hardware that data centers caused to be overpriced The same way they push physical games away: ❌We had was a box with a disc, a manual, a map and maybe another game’s demo ❌Then they took the items, then the map ❌And then they started making the game on disc require download or always being connected even for some single player games ❌Then they started counting DLC, MTX, free-to-play and digital only to inflate digital sales statistics and make it seem like physical games aren’t in demand, when even %10 is still million of people ❌Now they wanna take away disc, and to give you a code n the box, while the prices keep rising, while value and options keeps declining This is their next step to making you own nothing, lock you into their ecosystem so you can remain subscribed and paying for their slop forever. They will gaslight you into thinking “downloading games makes no sense, streaming is the way!” Just like how the hypocrite argues physical games are like vinyl records and that “Sony knows better” when Sony themselves are marketing vinyl record players are the best way to listen to music and vinyl record sales are so high that artists release many variants to boost their album to No.1 And it’s crazy that gaming is the medium that needs physical media the most, as it’s the most demanding in terms of downloads and streaming compared to music, film, books and shows, all of which are far easier to access via download or streaming for a long time. And as usual, gaming is the one industry where the customer is always assumed to be “wrong, entitled and toxic” and treated like children and expected to spend like adults, and also expected to worry about profits for CEOs, studio closures, and basically everything but their own best interest. Enough is enough! Stand up for your own self interest, before it’s too late for any meaningful change to happen. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY