Overall the gaming industry is a peek into what many media industries want your life to be like. You have access to their IP only as long as they want to suppo

Overall the gaming industry is a peek into what many media industries want your life to be like. You have access to their IP only as long as they want to support it, no local copy to keep forever, always online, kernel-level permissions to detect cheating software, DLC dribbles and microtransactions and lootboxes everywhere. It's problematic and only getting worse and I've given up on games for the most part. If aspects of culture can be memory-holed because people aren't allowed to retain copies (and I mean popular shows and movies, books, music, not just games), the only winning move is not to play. Abandonware should be open-sourced, copyrights should be capped at around a decade, and corporations should stop competing with each other to be the biggest asshole.