>>6693866If they can afford a bunch of $60 games, they can afford toys. Most of them don't even buy actual products though, they waste it on digital download games they can't even own, so maybe they're not really used to the idea of personal property anymore. The game publishers have been pushing to kill off used game sales because "our profit margin", fucking over individual consumers, and other industries have been leaning into that too. What better way to make people disinterested in owning shit they pay for than to make it the accepted norm not to own it.
Considering the shit John Deere is pulling with their tractors now, claiming that buyers don't even own them but lease them because of the computer software on board, DMCA and all that, it would not surprise me if toy makers find a way to do this too eventually. Hell, if they put on a chip with software, even if it's a simple thing, they can use the DMCA to claim just that.
