"what you wind up getting are policymakers who just throw more money at the problem, "
Which is to say telecoms complain about how onerous the slightest regulation is and then get the lobby to write in to bills the government giving them stupid large sums of money to be just a little less asshole.
Then they take the money and don't actually be any less of an asshole
I don't think this is just the case of we are Evil Corp trying to screw people to make more money.
Too many take "Exclusive" to mean FU to those that didn't buy our system or to 'force' you to buy their system to play their game
On one side it seems silly not getting your game out for sale to more people. You would think it would sell a lot better if you just put it out for all platforms. So that kind of moves away from the profit motive.
On the other side reduced development resources required to limit to a single platform are so much less. So less development time means less costs so it does increase profits.
Plus yes, the profit motive that some will purchase their system to play said game does linger there.
to Sum up
No it really isn't just:
<twirls villain mustache> 'We want to make you buy our system'
but more :
<twirls villain mustache> 'We want to make the best game with the least amount of resources and that is easier since we can share 2 of the 4 major platforms with little to no extra cost'
This line though
"what you wind up getting are policymakers who just throw more money at the problem, "
Which is to say telecoms complain about how onerous the slightest regulation is and then get the lobby to write in to bills the government giving them stupid large sums of money to be just a little less asshole.
Then they take the money and don't actually be any less of an asshole
I can see both sides of this
I don't think this is just the case of we are Evil Corp trying to screw people to make more money.
Too many take "Exclusive" to mean FU to those that didn't buy our system or to 'force' you to buy their system to play their game
On one side it seems silly not getting your game out for sale to more people. You would think it would sell a lot better if you just put it out for all platforms. So that kind of moves away from the profit motive.On the other side reduced development resources required to limit to a single platform are so much less. So less development time means less costs so it does increase profits.
Plus yes, the profit motive that some will purchase their system to play said game does linger there.
to Sum up
No it really isn't just:
<twirls villain mustache> 'We want to make you buy our system'
but more :
<twirls villain mustache> 'We want to make the best game with the least amount of resources and that is easier since we can share 2 of the 4 major platforms with little to no extra cost'
Gonna get it together, watch it, gonna get it together ma bell
Ma bell, got the ill communications
Ma bell, got the ill communications
Ma bell, got the ill communications
Ma bell
Keep it on and on
Infowars conspiracy pipeline
Alex Jones/Infowars -> OAN -> Fox News -> the masses
just slightly watered down at each step to make it a little less batshit.
I
Quibi brainstorming session
exec1 : lets make an app
exec2: yes! video streaming designed for mobile
exec1: We can make it just like TV
exec2: maybe we make it a platform
exec1: YES! just like TV but , hear me out here , worse
Just a matter of time
till ring obsoletes the tech like our much loved DRM and IoT lightbulbs
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