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(Replying here since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125720 seems to be dead.) > Because the public is so

by a1369209993 7y ago

(Replying here since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125720 seems to be dead.) > Because the public is so stupid they can operate in broad daylight. You don't seem to get that the vast majority of the population is computer illiterate. No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one. > why would you go from having quake 3 with level editing, mods, free maps skins, etc, in big budget AAA games, to not getting that, and having the game client server locked to company PC's like diablo 3 and overwatch? I wouldn't, partly because I'm not a moron, but mostly because I prefer Warcraft 3; the last good FPS[0] I played was Wolfenstein. 0: unless you completely ignore the "shooting" part and count minetest.

nhm33 7y ago
>No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one. You don't get big media companies have been trying to control what the public has been doing with culture long before PC's, aka VHS vs beta max... so yes they have been conspiring for a long time. Conspiring just equals getting together and co-operating in this instance. >I wouldn't, You would, why the hell would anyone who was a 90's nerd defend anything like mmo's (stolen rpg's), steam, etc, unless they were fucking retarded? You do know that all those "mmo's" were just rebadged PC RPG that were heading towards boxed product status, if not for the success of UO and everquest right? The industry did a hard u turn after they discovered most of the general game buying public was computer illiterate. You don't seem to understand we're already in dystopia, aka dedicated servers and network code for games like Transformers fall of cybertron are mathmacking on PC locked to an invisible server corporately controlled. Same goes for Doom 2016. Try running doom multiplayer not connected to the internet over lan, watch the fun begin. You don't seem to get they can now client-server every game now that the world is fully wired with internet, since that was the end game, to wait until internet infrastructure was there to trap files between server and client and bannish the notion of software ownership of applications, games and OS's. Windows 10 is a full frontal attack on your right to own and control your own machine.

nhm33 7y ago

>No, I get that just fine - you're not actually arguing that they have a conspiracy; you're arguing that they don't need one. You don't get big media companies have been trying to control what the public has been doing with culture long before PC's, aka VHS vs beta max... so yes they have been conspiring for a long time. Conspiring just equals getting together and co-operating in this instance. >I wouldn't, You would, why the hell would anyone who was a 90's nerd defend anything like mmo's (stolen rpg's), steam, etc, unless they were fucking retarded? You do know that all those "mmo's" were just rebadged PC RPG that were heading towards boxed product status, if not for the success of UO and everquest right? The industry did a hard u turn after they discovered most of the general game buying public was computer illiterate. You don't seem to understand we're already in dystopia, aka dedicated servers and network code for games like Transformers fall of cybertron are mathmacking on PC locked to an invisible server corporately controlled. Same goes for Doom 2016. Try running doom multiplayer not connected to the internet over lan, watch the fun begin. You don't seem to get they can now client-server every game now that the world is fully wired with internet, since that was the end game, to wait until internet infrastructure was there to trap files between server and client and bannish the notion of software ownership of applications, games and OS's. Windows 10 is a full frontal attack on your right to own and control your own machine.