@Enalys #GamesAsAService is fraud, yup.

Fuck all #GaaS vendors.

@Polychrome #GaaS is fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

#GamesAsAServiceIsFraud #GamesAsAService

@SuperDicq @winter This also touches upon the #GamesAsAService issue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw).

@fluffy @lewdthewides #GamesAsAService, basically #DRM with additional #enshittification.

@wizard Right up until #GamesAsAService fucks up all your fun and the only way to fix it involves reverse-engineered private servers & patches.

@Li Fuck #GamesAsAService and #DRM-backed #PlannedObsolescence actively frustrating #RightToRepair application.

@Zee @wowitskaylie @the_Effekt Selling expansion packs worked just fine for that before. Back when you didn't need to buy expansions to get a complete game to start with.

Server functionality being available to users also helped prevent the problems of #GamesAsAService, as the corporate servers weren't essential to playing it.

https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/109807742628780472

Of course, I'm also fond of the patronage model of arts & creative funding. It simply makes more sense.

@Zee @wowitskaylie @the_Effekt Most of it is corporate greed.

There's no practical justification for #GamesAsAService. The case is very similar for #DRM.

#SaaSS likewise has pretty steep usability & user-freedom drawbacks that make it entirely a bad deal for users. So corporations just deprecate the more reliable & advantageous options.

@jworthe @Graycot Yeah. I lived through those long-gone days when #GamesAsAService wasn't omnipresent, but just a disturbing trend slowly coming on.

@enigmatico A lot of that regarding games is the devs (or really, management, devs rarely have a say in it) being assholes though.

The overwhelming majority of modern engines allow for cross-platform builds. Cross platform graphics APIs are standard, performant & well-supported too.

There's no real reason to only release Windows binaries.

Of course a lot of it has to do with #enshittification of the game development ecosystem via things like #GamesAsAService.

@fluffy I've been hearing some mention it, so not quite silent.

Also wasn't that other debacle started by problems in journalistic integrity?

I didn't pay attention while it was going on and so much was redacted after the fact that getting a clear idea seemed like too much work.

(It's hard to care when the game industry is already so packed with nauseating cash grabs, namely #GamesAsAService, & disrespect for the audience)

@radicalTailor Basically, fuck Games as a Service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

#GamesAsAService #GAAS #Fraud

@Ajo1322 #GamesAsAService are a scam, your hatred for that pattern is shared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

@wzqtparor And so we say hello to yet more games as a service kind of quasi-fraud, with a few of those games legitimately losing features (DLCs). How grand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

#GamesAsAService #Ubisoft #SoMuchForPaidProducts