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Enshittification has three stages: 1. Provide great value to the user while you are weak. Provide them a great deal and a disproportionate amount of the surplu

by Affric 3y ago

Enshittification has three stages: 1. Provide great value to the user while you are weak. Provide them a great deal and a disproportionate amount of the surplus value of the exchange. 2. Provide great value to your corporate partners once you become stronger than your consumers can organise against. Provide your corporate partners a huge amount of the surplus value of the exchange. 3. Take all surplus value for yourself once you're stronger than your corporate partners. Cloud gaming is at stage 1. I have seen this too many times at this point of my life to ever trust a good deal like this again. Investing in things you own is an investment in yourself. Subscriptions are signing up to be a tenant.

yCombLinks 3y ago
I agree that this process happens. That doesn't mean you shouldn't take advantage when situation 1 is occurring. It means you should evaluate periodically if you are still in a situation 1 for these types of things. Amazon prime and Netflix used to be situation 1s. They aren't anymore. If you're willing to give them up I don't see the problem.
- Affric 3y ago
  Your data is valuable. There are network effects help the companies from phase 1 to phase 2. Ultimately there's an inertia in human decision making that means we almost always stick around longer than we should when we are being taken advantage of. I would say that it's not worth the hassle of creating the hassle of escaping. To each their own.
solardev 3y ago
Shrug. It's just games. If I lost all my games, as I have before... life goes on? What does it mean to own a digital copy of a commoditized good? The hardware is even worse. What costs $4000 today will be $200 in a few years and worthless soon after that. These are experiences that you go through and move on from, not heirlooms you keep. If you absolutely must play old games, they'll likely become either abandonware for emulators or remastered in 16k a few years from now. You can go to great lengths to horde hardware and your own DRM free copies of games if that's your thing. Me, I'd rather just rent them from Steam while they're on sale for a few bucks, play them on hardware someone else maintains, and then forget about them. I'll never be able to keep up with all the great new releases in a lifetime anyway.

by Affric 3y ago

yCombLinks 3y ago

I agree that this process happens. That doesn't mean you shouldn't take advantage when situation 1 is occurring. It means you should evaluate periodically if you are still in a situation 1 for these types of things. Amazon prime and Netflix used to be situation 1s. They aren't anymore. If you're willing to give them up I don't see the problem.

Affric 3y ago
Your data is valuable. There are network effects help the companies from phase 1 to phase 2. Ultimately there's an inertia in human decision making that means we almost always stick around longer than we should when we are being taken advantage of. I would say that it's not worth the hassle of creating the hassle of escaping. To each their own.

solardev 3y ago

Shrug. It's just games. If I lost all my games, as I have before... life goes on? What does it mean to own a digital copy of a commoditized good? The hardware is even worse. What costs $4000 today will be $200 in a few years and worthless soon after that. These are experiences that you go through and move on from, not heirlooms you keep. If you absolutely must play old games, they'll likely become either abandonware for emulators or remastered in 16k a few years from now. You can go to great lengths to horde hardware and your own DRM free copies of games if that's your thing. Me, I'd rather just rent them from Steam while they're on sale for a few bucks, play them on hardware someone else maintains, and then forget about them. I'll never be able to keep up with all the great new releases in a lifetime anyway.