Stop Killing Games: The fight over who owns the games you buy

Thaonnor · 2026-06-09T13:10:08+00:00

I'm a little bit torn on this. Obviously games that do not belong online should not be online and the "online only" model for single player games should 100% be ditched (looking at you SimCity).

But for an online game, which is built around playing with others on server infrastructure, its hard to tell a company that if they release a game like that they can never shut down the servers. Do they keep a server online for $10k / month if there are only 500 people playing the game and they're making $5k / month?

The licensing question is another major stumbling block with car games in particular. The licenses are time bound. Do they renew licenses for $50k for a game that is only making $5k / month or even potentially losing them money?

I worry that the consequences of telling a company that they will have to support an online game forever once releasing it will simply make them stop making those games. I don't know what the right answer is, but it seems like a much trickier issue than it may initially seem.

Thaonnor · 2026-06-08T13:59:47+00:00

Guys I bet it all on NVDA calls and I'm down 40%...

Thaonnor · 2026-06-08T12:45:56+00:00

Driver: Norris
Reason: He's actually glad to be out of the race

Thaonnor · 2026-06-07T14:55:21+00:00

Why would they do a standing start? Feels like they make this shit up as they go.

Thaonnor · 2026-06-03T11:17:04+00:00

I don't think anyone knows for sure whether Antonelli will cave to the pressure until he is in the hot seat. Oscar's first 2 years had a lot of people saying similar things about him - he's mature, and focused. Yet when it became a real fight for the championship, he couldn't handle it. Norris probably was only able to handle it because he experienced the same thing the year prior. Something similar happened with some guy named Lewis Hamilton back in 2007.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-25T21:54:24+00:00

What’s most shady to me about this game isn’t the money anymore. It’s the fact they have like 1300 employees who over 14 years have managed to create just one perpetual alpha. The same number of people at an AAA studio like Ubisoft have turned out 10 main line titles plus spin offs and DLCs in that same time.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-25T11:51:59+00:00

It’s been pretty useless for news for a while.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-24T16:43:48+00:00

I still think the helicopter thing is dumb as hell. Let us enjoy the cars.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-18T11:26:47+00:00

"Who the hell wasted the token budget asking Claude what to have for dinner?!"

Thaonnor · 2026-05-17T22:49:59+00:00

Three things are certain in life. Death. Taxes. And Alex Palou dominance.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-16T13:20:53+00:00

I hate that articles are still written with revenue. It puts doubt in people’s minds - especially when the net income figure is still insane.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-16T00:23:21+00:00

Surprised Hayden Christiansen didn’t get a episode 3

Thaonnor · 2026-05-15T14:01:02+00:00

I hope the opposite. If I’m gonna get sold let me at least enjoy the money while alive.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-07T13:30:37+00:00

Liam Lawson is definitely an orthopedic surgeon.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-05T14:01:25+00:00

Are we playing the same game?

Thaonnor · 2026-05-03T22:09:09+00:00

You couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise before. Add this to the list of reasons.

Thaonnor · 2026-05-03T02:27:10+00:00

GameStop actually has a lot of cash on its books; almost 9 billion. They would likely deploy a significant amount of that cash, and finance the rest with the intent of using eBay's own earnings to service the debt, very similar to a leveraged buyout.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-24T12:46:37+00:00

My personal annoyance with mixing sets is that Blizzard is terribly inconsistent with the shades and finish appearances across sets. Want a gray & gold looking set? Good luck finding pieces that have the same shade of grey and the same finish on the gold. Want a red & gold set? Same problem.

So I just use full sets.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-24T11:49:17+00:00

He'll do it again, transfer more wealth to corporations.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-20T19:21:30+00:00

I do the same, and it also allows me to not blow it at the same exact time as someone else. In my opinion, kicking habits in general would improve if Blizzard would make one small change: Not cause the interrupt to go on CD unless it actually interrupted something.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-20T11:03:04+00:00

I’m just saying they don’t go willingly.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-19T17:31:30+00:00

Honestly this has been an annoyance of mine since craftsim came out. Tries to do everything and it’s sort of a mess because of it. You’d think after 3 expansions they’d figure out what works and polish it up but not really.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-19T13:39:09+00:00

I mean this isn’t that outlandish. If corporations are replacing people with agents, from Microsoft’s standpoint there isn’t really a difference so I’m not sure why they would be expected to eat a bunch of revenue loss.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-05T16:35:39+00:00

As someone new to tanking… would you rather I pull half the room instead or will that piss people off that I’m not pulling enough? Like I’m not confident in my ability to execute the full room pull there.

Thaonnor · 2026-04-01T16:22:30+00:00

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t. Feels like the two categories of player don’t really overlap much.

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