Best way to get me to not pirate your game and buy it is to have a decent demo available. Against the Storm is a bizarre pitch (Rouge-lite City builder), but they had a good demo that allows unlimited play on the standard biome with a level cap. Was incredibly easy to try it and play enough to decide I like it.

Video game piracy has led to more purchases from me, because I’ll download a game to try on a whim that I wouldn’t have purchased, find out that’s it really good and buy it

Apple, Spotify or YouTube

Or. Instead of “only on Netflix” and “only on Amazon Prime” and “only in Disney+”.

It’s just a thing to say because theres more than one source, and there being more than one source is not radical.

The closest thing to podcasts is probably TV. You can’t say “available wherever you stream television” because everything is exclusive to a different service. You can’t even say “available wherever audiobooks are sold” for similar reasons. EPIC is trying to make the same thing true for video games as much as they can as well.

It is worth pointing out that entertainment does not have to be (and should not be) exclusive to a singular middleman.

I don’t know what makes you think I wasn’t asking, and I still don’t understand what you think a strawman is, but thank you for actually answering the question.

Personally I can think of better uses for $150 a year then “I don’t like having keys in my pocket/near the door” but I guess there’s a reason we keep seeing more companies trying to profit off subscriptions…

That’s why it’s an additional subscription feature.

So why is it worth a subscription? You’re defending it as something that is not a basic feature that validates the subscription, but asking what the feature actually provides is somehow a strawman?

How is asking you a follow-up question a strawman exactly? What do you think a strawman is?

Why do I need to unlock my car over the internet? What is the use case over a FOB?

My car has remote lock and unlock on a FOB, no reason for an app and subscription.
I also get the feeling that the diagnostics are done on board by the car, it’s just refusing to give you the information unless you’re paying the sub.

The comment I originally replied to:

They would just have to start DMing us meme images hosted on a server they control, and they’d get a list of IPs. All we’d have to do is look.

So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

“Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence

Sometimes you don’t have to win a court case legally, to win a court case. Just the harassment of the lawsuit is enough.

That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

Unless anyone shared the in image link anywhere else on the internet. “Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence

he’s had lots of time to grow up and change his views.

Okay, this can easily be resolved by him expressing his changed views.

The “my body my choice, I should be allowed to take that risk” crowd when the risk turns out poorly for them.

“She didn’t choose to risk her life by not getting the vaccine. She chose to risk your life by not getting the vaccine!”

Source?

You weren’t on the organ donor list.

A lack of privilege is not a consequence. Receiving an organ donation is a gift, not a right.

Fact of the matter is there are a lot of people waiting for organs, whomever you give it to somebody else is going to die. When you get an organ transplant you have to take medication that leaves you immuno compromised.

So you have two people in front of you in need of an organ but only one organ to give it out. One is up to date on all their vaccinations and has been following their doctors instructions. The other thinks they know better than their doctor and has refused to get vaccinations. Which one of these two people do you think will have a better chance of surviving longer once immnuo compromised from the transplant?

“Woman who refused vaccine gets organ transplant, dies of COVID a month later” is a much shittier headline.

But you said

I prever not to live under an authoritarian state.

So what authoritarian state? Being “excluded from a lot of life” is not an authoritarian state if it was just a result of people deciding not to be around you if you made the choice to be a health risk.

Or is this like a child screaming “YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!” Just because they can?

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