This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.
We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.
"We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars" (South park).
What if there is a great retirement coming for the games industry like they've never seen before. Not only are the gamers that have been the target audience for this industry slowly removing gaming from their lives, but what if the developers are also in that demographic and they're all leaving the industry? It's going to be interesting to see what's left in a few years.
Hot Take: There are only a handful of original super hero stories. Everything else is essentially Buffy the Vampire slayer.
Don't get me wrong, I love Buffy. It really set the modern standard for the modern TV and Movie super hero. The few SuperHero movies we get that aren't a Buffy derivative tend to be more dark Alan Moore-esque derived stories. Alan Moore sees Heros as flawed, twisted, sad, and relatable. Buffy does this too but it's wit and humor gives it a candy coated shell.
"Dawn's been kidnapped... Must be Tuesday"
It also feels like they took the formula and put it on its head, instead of monster of the week we now get hero of the week. Audiences tend to come back for sequels when you have a strong cast of protags. But now you have too many protags and the monsters are all samey. This is how you eventually end up with DC character themed Isekai.
Thanks for listening to my semi coherent rant.
Don't you think this game looks boring?
I can't hear you over my audiobook "Pounded in the butt by my own butt" written and read by author Chuck Tingle.
You guys wanna start a fight club?
Nintendo, "Sure that sounds like a great idea ... For me to poop on!"
The original artist and everyone who's viewed the video receives a cease and desist the following morning. They are all instructed to carefully and completely remove any Zelda related material from their minds or otherwise be charged with thought piracy.
Y'all need Stallman
I think the pricing is fair too. I'm just doing some quick math.
24k users on day one
if they all paid 16$ for a year that would be $384k a year
if just 1% of that user base buys sync for a year that's 38k a year ($3200 before any taxes or other costs)
potential donations to lemmy (2 of the $16 dollars) cuts down to $2800 a month
cost for infrastructure to run the app is unknown but it comes out of that $2800 for the app subscribers.
In this 1% case, that is not a lot of money.
With an app of this calibur, if there are more subscribers we would see rapid growth as it's still in its early days an needs more subscribers. Apps stagnate when they hit their growth limit.
I think you'll get the most on your return on investment if you choose to pay. SYNC is a great app and I will gladly pay for continued development.
Note: I also do think that ads are imorral. If sync made enough off subscribers to provide an experience without ads to free users I think it should be considered.
Can't wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.