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I was into vidya about 15 years ago when I was in college. Now that I've got all of the money to build a bitchin' system... I'm not into vidya. The MBAs got t

I was into vidya about 15 years ago when I was in college. Now that I've got all of the money to build a bitchin' system... I'm not into vidya. The MBAs got to it and we now _must_ have a multiplayer game with anticheat because if we don't have anticheat how are we supposed to sell the tournaments surrounding the game to streaming audiences as a way to monetize an otherwise free-to-play* game? We let people make this hobby into their whole lives and when you do that, it has to be monetized, and it begins to suck.

gary_0 2y ago
What online pastime we enjoyed 15 years ago hasn't been monetized all to shit? Making goofy YouTube videos? All about the big bucks now. Fuckin' blogging? Now there's Medium/Substack. Dicking around on a message board? Sorry, spez needs his billions. And if you're a gamer, don't forget to run some ads on your Twitch stream for easy money! The Internet is no fun anymore.