Technology

Won't, or can't afford to?

Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.

I do it this way so I don't forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.

I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I'll keep access even through bad times.

So you're saying people without money don't act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!

Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?

I used to renew and binge for a single show.

Now I've got effectively 0 services. I'm subscribed to like 8 patreons. But I'm just straight downloading what I feel like. I dgaf.

Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn't do a lot for moral, or our finances.

Nevermind that there's a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that's jacking up the cost of everything right now.

Funny way of saying "half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap". And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix' catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn't really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I'd listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

Streaming? Purchasing? Gen Z needs some PC literacy, lol.

If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won't go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there's your phrase for the day)

"People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company"

FTFY

tf you expected we're all broke. you're lucky some of us haven't heard of piracy yet (somehow)

I do this now.

There’s too much crap to throw money at it all.

My tastes are different than most gamers. I see creating and feel the game is doing to be a grind. Base building doesn’t particularly interest me as a mechanic. So I don’t know of an overweening overwhelmingly positive game is one I’ll actually enjoy.

Pfft. I'm in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I've owned for 18 years now.

I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

I cannot upvote a paywalled source

yes, blurring the article if you don't disable ad blocking is a paywall

I am honestly surprised, paid video on demand even survived the post-Netflix fragmentation. YouTube is free. uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock make it usable. Illegal streaming sites exist and are trivial to use without any risk.

Why even consider paid video on demand services?

Also all of that interfaces really suck it's like they don't actually want you to use their platforms.

Apple TV is the buggiest piece of crap I've ever used, Amazon prime TVs interface is confusing as hell, even Disney can't pull it off with their categories of Marvel, Star Wars, kids movies, and other, where other contains literally everything else.

There are streaming services that only contain four seasons of a show with 16 seasons, then there is a different streaming services that contain everything but those first four seasons.

Is it any wonder people pirate, they raise the price diminish the catalogue split everything up into 60 different services and all of them have terrible UX. It's like they don't even want my money.

Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.

Given how often games go on sale, often at a big discount, why would I pay full price?

They have no money, and they're going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.

I wouldn't be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.

Someone should teach them how to pirate.

Because everything they want to watch isn’t on ONE single service so I can’t say I blame them.

Also, streaming companies boast this as a feature, so they can’t really complain.

~~Gen Z~~ people who aren’t paid enough to live

Guys, learn to pirate. If you stick to media and familiarize yourself with filetypes (also enable file extensions, windows users. Chaps my ass that they're hidden by default) then you'll be fine. Nicotine+ for music, qbittorrent+jackett for movies/tv, or the *arr stack if you're fancy, or Usenet if you're paying for it.

Edit: Also use a VPN. I know "but that's a thing to pay for," my dude you should be using one anyway. I recommend Mullvad, maybe Proton.

People are still buying full price games?

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

I'm over 50 and I sail the high seas. I can afford all the streaming services and even used to pay for them... until the price hikes and now the ads, so fuck them. I also never pay full price for my games.

All that money now goes to paying artists on BandCamp and a few Patreon accounts that make me happy.

Arrrr matey

Somehow, nobody takes issue with the cancel and renew instead of purchasing part. So they were successfully indoctrinated into the you will own nothing part, except the and you will be happy didn't work out.

Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

The only game I've ever seen sold at full price on a consistent basis was Factorio. Every other publisher seems sold on putting $60-80 on the label and then floating 10-30% discounts as the sales cycle permits.

It's the Macy's model for sales. "You're getting a $20 discount on a $60 game" sells more titles than "Here's a game for $40".

Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.