For a long time, Skyrim players dreamed of a Skyrim MMO game and pleaded with Bethesda to create one. Bethesda listened, and what Bethesda delivered was NOT a MMO Skyrim, but a MMO that had nothing to do with Skyrim.
Ipad users have pleaded with Apple to have a REAL file system. So Apple listened … and what Apple delivered was a FIles app that is NOT a real file system.
A lot of Gaming companies have been putting SJW politics into their games, and their sales have been going down. So, what do they do? … they make new games … with more SJW politics and tell their customers that they are the problem. Battlefield V is already being reported to be 50% in places. And The Witcher TV series has hired writers that brag about being Patriarchy Destroyers, and have “diversified” the cast at the dismay of many long time Witcher fans who see this as forcing identity politics down their throats and watering down the entire culture of the game … i mean, isn’t one of the main points of making a Witcher TV series is to at least cater to Witcher fans to make sure that they are guaraneed viewers … and THEN second, construct the TV series in a way that can also cater to the general public without pissing off the very people that should be guaranteed to watch it?
Ive tested a lot of Music streaming service apps … I find the UI in most to be totally horrible. In Spotify, it is not intuitive getting your music library to only show downloaded music. The offline switch, only makes music in your library that you have NOT downloaded … unplayable. You STILL see the non-downloaded music in your library.It makes no sense. If your offline, it’s unplayable by DEFAULT .. because .. your offline. duh. The secret is to go into filters and filter for downloaded only. I’m still not sure what the offline switch is for, i guess is your online but don’t want to play something that hasnt been downloaded? but really, do people really do that?
And I’ve downloaded generic localized music players too … A LOT … that literally will take my music file folder with music labeled 01,02,03 and RESTRUCTURE the order for no apparent reason and there is no way to sort by file name. And I mean, there are A LOT of top of the list music players that do this. Its unbelievable.
What is going on? Why are so many companies and app developers doing stupid crap? Why are so many insistent on telling us what we want, instead of listening to what we want .. and producing a product we want? Who are making these apps? Who are in charge of these decisions? Do they live is such a technological bubble world that they can’t produce common sense apps that do simple things the way most reasonable intelligent people in the real world would expect to do it?
When did this elitism seep in? Perhaps I’m old fashion, but I always thought businesses were designed to make money, yet I am seeing businesses not only choosing, but in some instances, bragging about making decisions that are financially hurting the company. It’s mind boggling to me. And to be fair, its our fault too, the consumer. I think these tech giants know we are going to end up buying their product anyway. In some instances, its a choice of bad or worse, like in Ios Vs Android, where I either choose Apple telling me how I’m supposed to use their phone or Android letting me do what I want at the cost of stability and privacy.
Perhaps I’m getting older and grumpier, but I think we are in some troubling times. I remember when I used to play around as a kid on my IBM PCjr on Norton and look at the sectors of my floppy disk and change the command.com screen output after it was loaded to say something different on the screen by searching the sectors on the drive for the appropriate machine code output and changing it . It took me forever to figure it out, and I was so happy when i did. Today, there are people that will argue with me that they have TOTAL CONTROL over their files in Itunes … because … they can click on them and play them. Its like something is missing … the curiosity is gone … the adventure is gone … having to reinstall your operating system for the 34th time because you were playing around with crap trying to so something … is gone.
We are heading for a time when these same corporations and app developers will have TOTAL CONTROL, and they are already half way there. You won’t own your games, you wont own your music, you won’t own you movie/TV collection, you might not even own a car at that point… and the concept of OWNERSHIP will be lost to corporations that ALREADY are producing products that are half baked, arbitrarily restricted, and walled gardens to control you … and all the farts like me who remember what is what like to have control over … you know .. the crap you BOUGHT …. will be dead and gone … and this control will be the new normal and nobody will bat an eye. And of course, I could go on about how the psychological implications of a society that doesnt own crap will be more prone to Socialism and even Communism … but I’ll save that for the Thurott political website.
rant over.
now get off my lawn 🙂
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#380954">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p>We often disagree, Jim, but I agree with you on this. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#380931">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>Racial and gender blindness would be perfect if the world started today. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381273">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>"Why does the existence of history justify doing the wrong thing?"</p><p><br></p><p>You're begging the question. In any case it's not the "existence" of history at issue, it's the effect that history has on the present. </p><p><br></p><p>If I stole from you yesterday, you wouldn't want to reset everything today with me keeping your money. Directly or indirectly white males have benefited from the reduced competition that has resulted from the discrimination toward others. In many cases, it's not our fault, but we shouldn't deny the facts or fight to maintain our relative privilege. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381364">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>"You want to punish people for the sins of their great grandfathers?"</p><p><br></p><p>No, you are just making a straw man argument. BTW, some of these "sins" as you call them are still happening today. Your pattern seems to be to pretend this evil is in the past: the Middle Ages, now 150 years ago. </p><p><br></p><p>People try to solve problems all the time that they weren't personally responsible for creating. You're under no obligation to help and nobody has forced you to do so. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381121">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>I don't think there's much in 1984 that speaks to gender or race. I think you're just spinning it for this discussion. You're right though about the part of switching alliances. That's a game the US has been playing since WWII ended. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381241">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>Perhaps you are thinking of a movie version. I don't think there's any passage in the book that mentions that women and men dress the same or claim that Big Brother wants them to be androgynous.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381460">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>You need to quote a passage in the book that says men and women wore the same clothes and it was done to make them androgynous (or an equivalent statement).</p><p><br></p><p>I've read the book multiple times and I am quite capable of interpreting it without "homework help" which is just another person's opinion.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
Thom77
<blockquote><em><a href="#380971">In reply to Usman:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I believe it is a form of elitism when a company basically tells their customer who want product A … that they don't feel like making it and here is product B, take it or leave it. It's elitist because they are saying TO THE CONSUMERS that either 1) they know what the consumer wants more then the consumers do (I'm smarter then you) or 2) We don't care what you want and we will make Product B without worry because we know you will buy it anyway (Be happy with what you have, peasant)</p><p><br></p><p>I mean , come on, EA is literally telling people that don't like their agenda driven games full of microtransaction to NOT BUY THEM. I mean there is something seriously wrong here when a company is telling people NOT to buy their product. At the very most, you sit in the conference room, make a decision that you know are going to anger your consumer, and privately say to each other, "Screw them. This is the direction we are going." … but to mock the consumers is something that is bizarre to me, and its happening elsewhere like the NFL where players are telling fans "Just dont come to the games if you dont like us kneeling" </p><p><br></p><p>Yes … that is a form of elitism through and through, an air of invincibility that is derived from a company becoming so big that they lose site of HOW THEY GET PAID to begin with.</p><p><br></p><p>And to make it clear, I don't believe having a female or black or (insert minority classification) in a game is SJW. But I think we all know when an agenda is being pushed, and I believe reasonable people who are intelligently informed on the gaming scene can blatantly see that there is an agenda being pushed and i don't think a lot of gamers (enough to make BFV reduced to 50% off) really want to be lectured to in their video games NO MATTER WHAT THE AGENDA IS. And to be clear, some developers are literally admitting it.</p><p><br></p><p>I believe 100% that if the gaming developer scene started having Christian employees in mass (instead of SJW) and they started pushing pro-Christian themes in their games … most of the SAME PEOPLE complaining now would be complaining about that too. I honestly don't think most gamers are sexist or racist or (fill in the blank)phobics … I think they just don't like agenda driven games … they want interesting stories that make sense because it is intelligently written, interesting characters that are interesting because of who they are and the decisions they make… not because they check a box on the diversity scale. And I think a lot of gamers (and people in general) find it intellectually insulting when situations or themes or characters are BLATANTLY manipulated for the SOLE purpose of pushing an agenda, in such a way, as to make the game artificial and turn it into just an TOOL to preach their ideas unto others …. they feel used and manipulated. </p><p><br></p><p>They just want to play cool, fun games with cool, fun characters with cool, interesting stories … without feeling like the only purpose of the game they are playing is actually to push an agenda.</p><p><br></p><p>I responded to your reply instead of some others because it was reasonable and non-emotional, which i appreciate. Hope I have clarified myself. I want to make clear that my main point is that companies are making decisions with detrimental results and turn around and just dont care, and keep doing it, and the SJW angle was just ONE example out of many – I'm not on a crusade, its just boggles my mind to witness the slow train wreck.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381157">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>The negative means you mention are pretty much how wealth disparity was achieved in the first place. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381272">In reply to Daekar:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nothing in my comment indicated that I was talking exclusively about the 21st century, yet it's ludicrous to claim that exploitation of people for money or power halted in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the primary indicator of success in the US is the wealth of one's parents. Wealthy conservatives implicitly acknowledge this truth with their concern over what they characterize as a "death tax". Surely in a true meritocracy children don't need to inherent money or property from their parents, if they are "productive" they'll "climb the economic ladder by their own ability".</p>
skane2600
<p>I suspect that if all the players who are obsessed with alleged SJW politics in games stopped buying them, it would have a negligible effect on sales. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381242">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>Sales go up and down all the time, that's not evidence of any particular theory.</p>
Thom77
<blockquote><em><a href="#381300">In reply to skane2600:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>EA told their costumers that if they don't like the "creative" decisions in the game, then dont buy it.</p><p><br></p><p>Some gamer youtubers are boycotting the game, and promoting their hundreds of thousands of followers to boycott the game. Comments in BF5 videos show a huge amount of apathy for the game because of EA's attitude and the rewriting of historical battles to serve diversity when there are real historical situations in WW2 that included women that they could of used.</p><p><br></p><p>Sales are down so much that a AAA title from a beloved franchise whose new game has been hyped for the past year … is 50% off in short order.</p><p><br></p><p>But there is no evidence.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile, Rockstar stays away from SJW politics, doesn't lecture or mock their customers, doesn't tell their customers to not buy their game, and delivers a masterpiece (Red Dead Redemption 2) that keeps true to the time period with realistic characters for its time period, including women right movement that nobody is complaining about because its not forced, its done fluidly … and in 3 days they sell 725 MILLION COPIES which is 2nd all time to GTA5.</p><p><br></p><p>Both are AAA, much anticipated widely known franchises.</p><p><br></p><p>One company's main purpose was to "wake" their customers.</p><p>The other company's main purpose was making an awesome game.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Come on, don't be purposefully obtuse. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381305">In reply to Thom77:</a></em></blockquote><p>Do I have to say it? Correlation isn't causation. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381461">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>Glad you agree buddy.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#381457">In reply to maethorechannen:</a></em></blockquote><p>Or perhaps they just made an artistic decision and don't want to put fans in charge of their game development.</p>