It’s not just gen z.
Streaming? Purchasing? Gen Z needs some PC literacy, lol.
These are iPad kids. They believe that the extent of computing is what Apple allows you to have.
Young used to equate to high PC literacy, sadly no longer for the exact reason you mentioned: walled gardens, non-removable components.
Won’t, or can’t afford to?
Especially video games. Honestly as a casual gamer I get it. Games are expensive and they are a gamble. I’ve bought games in the past and played them for half hour and realized I hate it lol. I rarely buy games now, especially if it’s not a franchise I already know and like, because I can’t afford the gamble. If I do I buy a physical copy so I can sell it on.
At least with streaming services you can check and know there’s a few hours of shows you will definitely watch. It’s still tol expensive and I’m cancelling mine but it is less of a gamble than video games.
I know many people are against this logic but you can pirate things as a demo and buy them if you find them good.
I’m playing them preemtively, once they come down to a couple of dollars I’ll totally pay for them for all the time I spent playing them when they were expensive.
Thankfully demos are coming back. At least that’s the trend I see with indie titles
Thinking about it a bit more, some AAA publishers also are bringing demos back too
Yeah indies usually have pretty decent demos! I actually haven’t even looked at the switch store lately but I don’t remember the bigger titles having demos?
And idk where everyone else is but the big games here (Australia) are still what I consider expensive (USD$45 minimum without a sale). Typical price is around USD$60. Even on sale they don’t get much below that for the big stuff - zelda, pokemon, Mario, animal crossing, etc. Curious how comparable that is to elsewhere.
Oh I’m just referring to Steam games. I’m a PC gamer just because I don’t buy consoles (because they’re expensive lol) and Steam just have great discounts compared to PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.
For full priced games, which used to be only $60 USD, now somehow $80-$90 — thanks Nintendo — is far too expensive for me. $45 too. $30 is starting to be okay. Oh and pardon me for not saying where I’m from but my country got cheaper regional pricing on Steam so I just use USD prices like tiers of pricing.
Ah okay yeah, I barely use steam these days. Can’t remember the last time I bought anything there, I just occasionally play very old games I already have on there haha.
Yeah i love a few Nintendo classic titles but $$$ 😭 kinda a good thing that I don’t like the direction they’re taking pokemon because it removes the temptation to upgrade to the switch 2. Not sure I’ll bother unless I somehow get free money to throw around haha.
True. Just depends on device and how committed people are to doing that lol. As a casual gamer (PC barely ever anymore and Nintendo switch, then I have emulators with a bunch of Nintendo classics) I wouldn’t bother. I don’t even know how to do that for a Nintendo switch.
So yeah it’s an option but in terms of the discussion about Gen z people not shelling out for video games, I think part of the decline has been from casual users who aren’t either shelling out $ and aren’t interested in enough to pirate 😅 I’m a millennial.
I assume to pirate and transfer to a Nintendo switch (I don’t have 2, just the original) there’s an initial set up cost?
I tend to stick to the emulator my brother got me with all our 90s(ish) childhood games lol. I don’t know if those exist yet for more modern games - or at least not at the cost of the classics!
insert small mexican girl
“Why not both?”
Uses AI to insert small Mexican gril… what could go wrong?
I can’t tell if this is a madtv skit, or linustechtips cosplaying as a madtv skit.
Must resist temptation to ask wHy NoT bOtH… (for mutually exclusive possibilities)
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.
We are all victims of asymmetrical class warfare. Download what you want without guilt, everyone (safely). It’s one very small clapback to the constant attacks and damage done to us and the planet.
Save your money for the independent creators that actually deserve it. The big corporations don’t deserve a single cent.
I’ll pay you to create content, like its always been. I’m not gonna pay a third party to put up barriers. If you don’t want an idea or information to be shared freely, keep it to yourself.
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I’ll be honest, that issue was kind of a bust, but you managed to return the other cheek on the next issue so I’m willing to put it in the rearview.
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Someone should teach them how to pirate.
this sends a clear message though. No the old “just hook them, then we have guaranteed income forever” isn’t actually working. That’s great.
Piracy sends an even clearer message.
“Fuck you, I’m not playing your game”
Except though that they don’t really have the data to see how many people are really doing that at a time.
If they did I swear I think they would raid homes over it until people were so scared they’d stop.
I pirate everything btw.
They can see how many downloads and seeds but not from a single place.
Everyone in USA uses a VPN to torrent unless they are just asking to get a letter sent and service disconnected.
So they can tell people accessed it but not how many people of that group would have been able to legally pay for the service anyway. (If I’m not mistaken a lot of those streaming services are US only and at least if they aren’t they offer completely different libraries based off what country you’re in)
Someone in Africa or Brazil who had no way to pay for it anyway are also included in those metrics making them kind of pointless if you’re an american company selling american media to Americans only.
Although I’m sure they justeasure it as “missed sales” anyway even though that isn’t the truth. They don’t offer their services to all 200+ countries and a lot of piracy isn’t just US based.
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)
Sorry, best they can do is lobby for year-long contracts only.
Fordism is dead. Sorry. Try again next Industrial Revolution.
I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.
Just sick of nothing being available when I want it, on another app, and having to scan several services to confirm that.
With Jellyfin it’s just there. There’s no ads. There’s no “oh hey you looked away from the credits for five seconds I’ll just play something else”.
Or Plex. Or Emby.
Valid, of course. Although,
I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.
Among all the other reasons, I’m not short of money, but I can still use that money for other things. And honestly, even just throwing the savings down a drain at least means it doesn’t go to these companies.
I still don’t get how to get Jellyfin to work with the streaming part. If I have media, fine. But getting the streaming of all those or sports, ain’t happening.
Use an LLM. That might help you.
The other day my Mum was locked out of her Apple TV account for some reason, by some miracle she managed to get back on and all I could think of was how much easier this’d be if we just torrented everything and just used some Jellyfin client.
Or Plex. Or Emby.
Only with Usenet.
yup, I do my part by pirating and sharing 🫡
these seems stressful and alot of work, might as well pirate it.
Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.
Surprised it’s not 100% the high seas like myself.
High quality
No ads
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If I had to guess 90% of people these days can barely figure out how to torrent, at best they could figure out how to get to online streaming sites.
“these days”. Man I’m not sure there’s ever been an era where a significant portion of people understood how to torrent.
I’m not Gen Z, but I’ve never canceled my Usenet subscription…
Sssh. We don’t talk about Usenet.
They probably would do those things if they could afford to live comfortably and had a little extra disposable income but in today’s world every time you turn around someone is screwing you out of money. There isn’t anything left for fun stuff. Especially when the fun stuff company is doing some of the screwing lol
Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.
Stremio ftw
