>>30301245>would rather pay $5 than reasonably expect the games to allow you to transfer your own shitI can afford it, sure, but why would I want to pay any price for nothing? Clearly the games can transfer to the bank and then from the bank to the next game, so if there isn't a roadblock coding conflict why include the middleman at all? The answer is because people like you will roll over and give them the money; this escalates to removing core features of the game to arbitrarily lock behind an ever-increasing paywall, so you pay full price for the game and then more and more ongoing fees and subscriptions to actually GET the content and features you paid for in the first place. Leasing/renting is an incredibly attractive business model, especially when the goods/services provided are intangible and have no effectively no material cost to create/distribute and cannot be meaningfully "lost" (you lease a car and destroy it, it needs to be replaced at real cost, you lease software and corrupt the files you can reinstall at no real cost to you or the owner).
Why do you think the current DLC practices are so fucking shit in the vidya industry? Remember paid on-disc dlc? Cut content "included" in "season passes?" DLC announced for a game before the game itself is even developed or revealed (lol Evolve) much less released? Give them an inch and they'll charge you for a mile.
You have every right to spend your money how you want to, but I also have every right to consider it a poor decision that contributes to anti-consumer business practices and degradation of the industry as a whole.
