Problem is, the charity donations are almost always used to allow for tax write offs and other such nonsense for bigger companies. Money indeed went to good causes at least but doesn’t particularly indicate the company means well as a net whole, coupled with it being negligible compared to their net income and it’s not really a legitimate balancer
I’m reasonably fine with a digital era, only two things really bug me about it. One is games hold their price unreasonably, subscription models mitigate this (as do sales ofc) but sub models have their own risks around losing availability etc.
Second one is very much dependant on where you are, I’m in Oxfordshire, UK and bound to the best internet I can currently get which caps at like 72mb’s or somesuch. That’s considered pretty decent in uk on BT (the major provider here) and faster connections are generally heavily dependant on location and only slowly being rolled out and unless you’re in the city hearts you probably won’t have it. (God forbid you rent and it’s off the main road, you’re screwed then), as such downloads are often painfully slow taking 2-3hrs for midsized titles and bigger updates taking an hour in and of itself.
Essentially, I’m fine with a digital future but can everything catch up to it please!
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Problem is, the charity donations are almost always used to allow for tax write offs and other such nonsense for bigger companies. Money indeed went to good causes at least but doesn’t particularly indicate the company means well as a net whole, coupled with it being negligible compared to their net income and it’s not really a legitimate balancer
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I’m reasonably fine with a digital era, only two things really bug me about it. One is games hold their price unreasonably, subscription models mitigate this (as do sales ofc) but sub models have their own risks around losing availability etc.
Second one is very much dependant on where you are, I’m in Oxfordshire, UK and bound to the best internet I can currently get which caps at like 72mb’s or somesuch. That’s considered pretty decent in uk on BT (the major provider here) and faster connections are generally heavily dependant on location and only slowly being rolled out and unless you’re in the city hearts you probably won’t have it. (God forbid you rent and it’s off the main road, you’re screwed then), as such downloads are often painfully slow taking 2-3hrs for midsized titles and bigger updates taking an hour in and of itself.
Essentially, I’m fine with a digital future but can everything catch up to it please!