Technology

"People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company"

FTFY

100% still have to keep your seed ratio up. It works out for me, though, because I use it for my home media server, so it's mostly files I'm holding on to anyway.

They should learn how to sail the high seas

I'm Gen-X, but I don't play games at all, and I pirate everything I watch (which isn't much)

When I hear about people buying a game, and then having to pay for some subscription, or to fully utilise the features, I can totally understand people refusing to buy into the bullshit

Hell I'm a millennial, and I bounce around music streaming services all the time. They all offer more or less the same thing, and overcharge like hell for it. Spotify will send me a trial for like $5 for 3 months or something, I'll sign up and set a reminder to cancel in 3 months, Amazon music will send me something similar, I'll do that, YouTube premium will send me an offer and I'll go there. Worst case I'll have to deal with shitty ads for a while in between offers, but I'd say 10/12 months a year I've got some kind of premium service going for a fraction of the advertised cost. I know that their goal is to get me hooked and paying monthly for their shit, but I'm on top of it enough to not ever let them. Fuck the shareholders. I'm looking out for me.

The stock market was a mistake. There's only so much that a single company can grow without resorting to screwing over their own customers, yet these public company CEOs need to deliver constant growth if they wanna keep their jobs. At the same time, so much of the economy is invested in these

I rotate them every 3 months or so. By that time I've pretty much exhausted any interesting content they have anyway.

Won't, or can't afford to?

Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.

I do it this way so I don't forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.

I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I'll keep access even through bad times.

So you're saying people without money don't act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!

Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?

I used to renew and binge for a single show.

Now I've got effectively 0 services. I'm subscribed to like 8 patreons. But I'm just straight downloading what I feel like. I dgaf.

Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn't do a lot for moral, or our finances.

Nevermind that there's a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that's jacking up the cost of everything right now.

Funny way of saying "half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap". And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix' catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn't really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I'd listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

Streaming? Purchasing? Gen Z needs some PC literacy, lol.

If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won't go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there's your phrase for the day)

tf you expected we're all broke. you're lucky some of us haven't heard of piracy yet (somehow)

I do this now.

There’s too much crap to throw money at it all.

My tastes are different than most gamers. I see creating and feel the game is doing to be a grind. Base building doesn’t particularly interest me as a mechanic. So I don’t know of an overweening overwhelmingly positive game is one I’ll actually enjoy.

Pfft. I'm in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I've owned for 18 years now.

I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

I cannot upvote a paywalled source

yes, blurring the article if you don't disable ad blocking is a paywall

I am honestly surprised, paid video on demand even survived the post-Netflix fragmentation. YouTube is free. uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock make it usable. Illegal streaming sites exist and are trivial to use without any risk.

Why even consider paid video on demand services?