Meanwhile, No Man's Sky is still regularly pushing out quality content for free 8 years after its (admittedly disastrous) launch.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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They gave me “free” money since I have the deluxe edition so I foolishly got this; the mission isn’t even good. Don’t be like me.
'Voting with our wallet' never stops this. AGPL, software freedom, does.
What, no space horse armor?
You have to beat it on expert then you unlock the opportunity to buy it.
The real issue is that theres microtransactions in a single player game