That doesn’t even make sense…

Jesus what a mess of a sentence. You really tried to hamfist that one in there.

Hell ya, I would, too, 100%. Imagine actually owning a game with all of the content on a disk you can share and resell.

I agree with you, though; there is no incentive for companies to do this; they would make less money and have less control over the content. They can’t stand that.

They also don’t have to print games to discs and ship them around the world anymore.

They also don’t have to develop their own engines. Some dude with little to no experience can make a functional game in a few days now. Not to mention functions in UE5 like LOD control do a lot of the work that devs had to handle.

They also have Moore’s Law on their side: The average laptop can now develop what required a $10,000 workstation in 2000.

They also now pack games with microtransactions to make even more money.

They also now sell DLC for games to make more money.

They also now re-release games, which takes a fraction of the effort and still charge a disproportionate price.

Games, objectively, should be cheaper. This is just the hunger for more and more.

And I disagree with that comment.

This is really about late stage capitalism and chasing infinite growth. Every year profits must go up X percentage. There is never enough. So they have to find ways to make it to up, cutting wages and increasing prices is the obvious way.

Everyone is acting like they’re blowing it directly in your face… Walk down a city street and you just inhaled a ton of shit, but no one says anything lol. Hell, opening a window in an office in some towns with their are quality would be more damaging. But the vape, that’s the problem.

Also the point stands, tons of people are addicted to coffee and act generally the same. I don’t know why people just love acting each other over everything.

I was with you until you tried to lecture people on what’s bad for them or not. Yes people know. Lots of things are bad for you, they are adults.

Did you know science has proven that being on social media is bad for you?

I man that’s a lot of assumptions. In that case, throw some cubs in there and the bear would fight to the death.

IP only protects those who have the means to defend their IP in court, which is rich people and companies.

False. This shows a lack of knowledge around the topic. Off the top of my head I know a specific case where a small grocery store defended it’s IP from Apple. In your world that wouldn’t work. I mean how did JK Rowling go from a poor person with a story to a rich author. She had no money to defend her IP.

This take is just wrong. Factually.

As a consumer, you can download the book, listen to a free audiobook, or print it yourself if you want to. The company only gets money if they somehow make better physical version than what others have access to. To me this is not at all akin to ownership or theft.

So if you create a book or song or art piece, you shouldn’t be entitled to the money that those make? They should just all be free? I mean sure, but then people will stop doing it, because of it doesn’t make money people need to work to pay bills, they can’t create.

You’re missing how commerce works. A big company can flood the market. They can use better materials and ship faster due to being entrenched.

Like, hey, you could make an iPhone but will you? You can make a movie too, but will it be as good, you can make merch, but will it be as well designed and distributed?

Even in your example, where anyone can make a copy of the book, what about the author? They could pour years and their heart and soul into a book just to make no money, is that ok?

Big companies make money of Shakespeare and the Bible all the time. I don’t know why you would think they don’t, they very much do.

You’re also mixing monopolies with IP. You can have a monopoly with or without IP.

Say you write a book.

A big company can take that book, print it and sell it without you seeing a dime. Then they can sell merch and make movies off your book without you seeing a dime.

It’s pretty obvious, but people think IP only protects companies for some reason

What? They still sell things like merchandise and make money from it. You can make money selling Mickey Mouse hats if you don’t own the IP. I feel like you don’t understand the situation being presented.

You write a book. I make a copy and sell that exact book because I doesn’t exist. I just made money off your book. It’s that easy.

I’m brain washed? Lol, ok, since you want to make this about the people in the argument and not the topic itself fine, but it’s still worth pointing out how you’re wrong.

You came across as an I’m 13, and this is a deep post. I get it. You hate rich people; we all do, but you clearly have no idea how IP laws work, thinking it’s just the guy with the most money running around stealing stuff lol. You have some fantasy in your head where if we open everything up it’ll be all better. Ignoring the reality of how laws and lobbying worry, ignoring how patents work, ignoring how you don’t need millions to fight an IP case. I mean how did every famous author make money? They owned their own works. You are sorely misinformed about a topic you have more feelings about than facts.

if rich people are the only ones able to afford litigation to support their copyright

This is %100 not the case. Small mom and pop grocery stores have won cases against Apple. You’re just making stuff up, and I’m brainwashed? lol

it might as well only exist for them

No. Fully no. There are tons of authors, artists, and inventors who have made money off their inventions. You live in some other reality where no one owns anything right now. What you’re saying is they shouldn’t have the sole rights to what they create, you want it to be even EASIER for the rich to take. Because right now, despite what your angsty self might think, that’s not how it’s happening. And what do we get? Oh, I can make my own iPhone now, wow, yah, I’ll get right on that.

You are fighting FOR the rich at this point.

You need to take a breath, educate yourself, and speak on the topic once you know it better instead of ranting about how you feel and think it should be, all from a place of ignorance.

Yes! Now this I can get behind. Companies aren’t people!

And they can look at any small business, be it product, art, any book anyone writes, and they can flood the market, crushing you and profiting of the thing you made. Can people not see how this goes both ways and how this would destroy any desire for creation, knowing rich people will just take it and stomp you out immediately?

Imagine you write the next Harry Potter book or some shit, you’re catching on and getting popular and now it’s gone. A different company is printing your book and you don’t get any money. They’re making movies off your book and you get nothing. You go to stores and see merch from your book that you wrote that you’ll never see a dime of. This is the world you want? Where the rich can easily just take anything with no defense from the creator?

It doesn’t exist? I can write a book and someone can steal it. I can develop a product, shark tank style, and just have a big company steal it.

The fact that you think someone should be able to write a book or make art and not own it is crazy to me. That’s just letting rich people own everything because the have enough money to stomp you out.

Against IP as in if I spend my life creating something you’d be ok with a big company just stealing it and steam rolling me?

Cool and how many games are there on the system? With no backwards compatibility for these expensive games? How many shooters are popular on switch? Or is it that they lock down their IP and it’s marketed strongly towards children and cashing in on nostalgia.

But sure, nuance doesn’t matter. Nintendo is clearly the best system with the best games. I wonder how gaming PCs are even selling anymore, no one even should be playing on anything else it’s so obviously good. Jesus…

You can try to rationalize it all you want, bottom line is people don’t have money to buy $80 games these days. Those people aren’t going to the movies either.

I bought a rug that I’ve gotten years of value out of, should it have been thousands of dollars then? The idea that time used is how you measure value is flawed.

Edit: look what popped up on my feed, so looks like it’s not just me

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/former-blizzard-boss-says-hard-090054442.html