WanderingThoughts comments on it's a matter of motivation

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 40 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The profit motive is also the source of enshittification.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile Steam is successful by just not trying to squeeze every last penny they possibly can out of you, and they have a massive grip on games. It's almost like you get more money by not pissing off the people giving you money

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Whilst also ignoring the fascists in their forums, and allegedly firing all their moderators who could deal with such problems.

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[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Not really. People like discussing video games as much as anything else. It would be nice not to have to put up with fascists and other bigots whilst doing so.

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[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago*

That's the one trick capitalists forget about. Happy customers are usually returning customers

Edit: Also free marketing because of recommendations

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 7 months ago

Getting out of the next quarter mindset is very hard for corpos.

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