• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I admire your optimism, but I think this will get used as leverage for a push to cloud gaming. The end goal is for is to own nothing.

    They’re certainly welcome to attempt selling that to me.

    They won’t like the outcome, but that’s more of a them problem.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      We’ll see. I hope you’re right. Similar tactics in the housing market have created situations in which rent is cheaper than mortgage payments, which is a bad portent.

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        29 days ago

        I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.

        They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.

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        27 days ago

        what? no they haven’t. Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments we just set up the finanical system to disallow most renters from taking out a mortgage because its more profitable to trap people in an endless cycle of payment.