>I suppose what I'm trying to say is, a lot of the anti-video game and anti-gambling crowd have started to sound more like a certain segment of people demanding others shouldn't have fun. It almost sounds like a new spin on "Video games are making violent children!" because that topic has gotten stale.
There's some merit here, but a lot of the push back comes from gamers as well.
I think it's as simple as any inevitable result when costs rise. This crowd of gamers are used to seeing games as cheap as $5 on sale and they are already up in arms about AAA titles charging $70 at launch. So there will always be some tension and push back against that. Even threats of piracy over what for a middle class first world citizen may at worst be a dinner date (not even a fancy dinner date these days, sadly). Hearing of someone paying double that for a single game on a reocurring basis sounds borderline insane.
Some may be because the gamers are young, so they literally have no income to buy games with and are impatient to wait for sales. Others may be compelled by that rising tension against "capitalism" as a whole and see these services as yet another example of big coporations invading their hobby.
I've long stopped trying to really express my POV in those spaces, so c'est la vie.
There's some merit here, but a lot of the push back comes from gamers as well.
I think it's as simple as any inevitable result when costs rise. This crowd of gamers are used to seeing games as cheap as $5 on sale and they are already up in arms about AAA titles charging $70 at launch. So there will always be some tension and push back against that. Even threats of piracy over what for a middle class first world citizen may at worst be a dinner date (not even a fancy dinner date these days, sadly). Hearing of someone paying double that for a single game on a reocurring basis sounds borderline insane.
Some may be because the gamers are young, so they literally have no income to buy games with and are impatient to wait for sales. Others may be compelled by that rising tension against "capitalism" as a whole and see these services as yet another example of big coporations invading their hobby.
I've long stopped trying to really express my POV in those spaces, so c'est la vie.