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streaming services are just awful because they make consumers resent the existence of competition rather than welcome it. as a consumer i do not care if there are 100 makers of DVDs or 1000, and yet i do care whether there are 10 streaming services or just 1. that's not good…
i don't think “all the content you can eat for x dollars per month” is a remotely sustainable model, no matter what kind of “content” it is. i think we have to bring back buying things
incidentally the fact gamers resent the existence of competition in the field of places to download games is not a good sign. i know mr newell is relatively benevolent of course. but that's not the thing i want to argue about
@hikari Mm, gaming feels a little different because there's network effect. If I have a game on Steam and I want to play it online with someone else, not always but a lot of the time they'd better have the Steam version too.
An analogue in other content might be wanting to do a watch party or wanting to send a playlist to my crush, but... I dunno, to me those feel like more marginal use cases.
@hikari I especially don't like that subscription services create disconnected and perverted incentive structures that reward cheap slop with long run/playtimes or addictiveness over shorter, quality experiences