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CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited." (arstechnica.com)

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CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I paid full price for both Factorio and Skyrim because they are full games that I get to own. No micro transactions, and modding is almost encouraged through Steam. I will never buy another microtransaction game. I will never buy another "subscription based" platform like Xbox. I'm so fucking over not owning the thing I bought

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the big developers see when they read this is that you're a low-value customer and marketing to you will be less profitable than milking 14yo kids who use their birthday money to buy fortune gift cards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Most underaged individuals are being taken advantage of and the government does jack shit. Gambling is banned but this you never gain money at least in gambling you have a chance to gain which makes all of this so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, and if you teach this to your friends and children, the big companies will eventually adapt to what the market is offering vs trying to dictate the market

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate to break it to you but you don't really "own" the games on steam either. You have a license agreement with valve which they can revoke at any time, and you lose access to the games you paid for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if it’s playable offline there isn’t much they can do about it, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but most people don't have their library installed at all times. I don't have the space for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have them all downloaded. 25 years of old hard drives and nerdy piracy have me well stocked for the apocalypse