This is just peak enshittification at this point.

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    8 months ago

    We’re talking about a gaming streaming platform. How do you think that concept could ever work without a subscription?

    And frankly, adds for the free users really isn’t that outrageous or surprising either. I’m mostly surprised that this wasn’t the case from the start.

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      8 months ago

      this is not what im saying though.

      i said this will be the first point of enshittification on the paid plan, exactly like on movie streaming platforms.

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        8 months ago

        Oh well sorry that I took your “subscriptions suck” literally. I guess what that meant to say was “subscriptions with adds before them suck”. My fault for not figuring this out.

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          8 months ago

          all subscriptions eventually do price hikes and ads.

          subscriptions do suck.

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            8 months ago

            And yet they are pretty much non avoidable for certain services. And some of those services are really neat.

            My library subscription for example certainly is worth it. So is my public transportation subscription.

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              8 months ago

              neither of those need to be a subscription, but rather a pay as you go model that isnt overpriced.

              subscriptions are almost always designed to take MORE money longterm or else they wouldnt be pushing them so hard, on most cases its unavoidable because of how they push it onto us.