I may be misunderstanding

So I understand, if I created my own instance of Piefed, the original developers have backdoor access to manage my communities?

I thought anyone could create a Piefed instance, and it can be interacted with by both mbin and Lemmy?

It seems like you don’t want to admit that this whole thing would not be happening if Russia either didn’t invade another country, or stopped invading.

Given you can’t bring yourself to acknowledge core facts that don’t match your view points, we are at an impasse and as you said, I shouldn’t waste time trying to talk to a brick wall. I’m just going to block you.

It was a simple yes or no question…

I am not, but if it makes you feel better to put words in my mouth then I will not begrudge you that.

Notice in your example, they still give you the freedom to do it in the first place.

Apple Car would weld the bonnet shut and you wouldn’t even be able to change the oil yourself.

Fuck you, Tim Apple.

Would this be happening if Russia did not invade another country?

Who invaded who?

At no point have I ever said I want the war.

It looks like our difference in opinion is I want the people actually causing the war to stop.

I claimed what? I don’t understand why you’re advocating for the aggressor and their invasion of another country, and doing so on a retro gaming instance.

So again - what the fuck?

If Russia stopped invading them, do you think Ukraine would suddenly try to invade Russia in turn?

Doesn’t Non-Indigenous encapsulate more than just “White people”…?

What the fuck

If you made an edit I guess it doesn’t update for other servers - viewing these comments from a lemm.ee account in Voyager and it’s still the original…

Does this mean less expectations for sales numbers too?

Ah yes you nailed it - I was still waking up but you knew what I was on about :)

I appreciate this and agree 100%, but there are a LOT of factors besides just having the thing that make it harder than “just stop consuming”.

If you are someone who typically only plays games with friends, it can very much be a case of “Buy or miss out”. I have a group of friends who will probably buy GTA VI and play hundreds of hours of multiplayer together. I know I will not be rewarding Rockstar for their inevitably shitty choices and behaviour with this game (Fuck them for what they did with GTA VI, greedy assholes), and I know this means just…not playing with my friends. I’m okay with that as a thirty something adult, but for others they won’t be able to “just not”.

Then you have all the FOMO stuff - I refused to buy Diablo 4 on launch in protest of prices and Blizzard, etc. But it was VERY hard for me, being aware I was missing out on an exper

Limited time items, exclusive events, etc, can all play a factor for those who’s brains are tickled in just the right way.

I wish it were simply a case of patience and frugality.

Those companies are usually being closed down optionally by their owning corporations, they aren’t going out of business. Sunset Overdrive’s company was shuttered despite their success, for example.

If we’re also going by games 20 to 30 years ago, $50 was the whole game, without stuff being chopped out for day one DLC, or micro transactions, or battle passes.

If we’re upping the price - do we need monthly $30 battle passes? Do we need $20 micro transactions?

When these games are pulling so much MONTHLY in revenue, how can we then turn around and say games aren’t profitable and the price needs to go up?

Also, wasnt buying digital meant to save me money? What happened to that?