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'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"hurr durr nobody else has does it yet so clearly it can never happen"

Nobody else has 70%+ market share. The others are all competing for a bigger slice, they can't afford to be predatory.

The market leader can and the rest will follow suit. Haven't you seen overdraft charges (just now having laws change...decades after becoming a problem), minimal interest rates on savings accounts, ads in streaming services across the board (netflix wasn't first but the second they did it prime announced it), a reigning in of account sharing based on IP addresses for streaming services (happening across the board after a couple of big players did it)...

I get that you just can't imagine a world where your game library is RIPPED out of your hands after a 30 day notice of service changes... i've seen it happen time and time again for various platforms and games. Digital services can and will fuck you eventually.

Signed: Hellgate London lifetime subscription holder