Re: Even Epic Knows Their Client Sucks

On 16/06/2025 20:02, Xocyll wrote:

The entitled desire of some to justify their "free lunch" is staggering.
Same goes for piracy and illegal mass distribution of copyrighted works.
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Other services*do* offer a sharing option. It's often a little bit more
money. That's how it works. That Valve does it for free is a blessing.

Goes both ways though.
When Netflix started, they did not segregate by country, then suddenly
Canadian subscribers could no longer access the main servers, but
instead a Canadian Netflix containing about 2/3rds of the content, for
the same subscription.

I kinda agree as you signed up for one thing but ended up with another. Where I kinda of disagree is that with Netflix you can just cancel when ever you want.
Where I think it becomes really problematic is for long term subscriptions. Where's the line as to when you're not getting the service you paid for. I think is was Virgin (cable TV) in the UK that caused a bit of a stink when the announced that a few channels were going to be removed. There were quite a few people that, rightly in my opinion, pointed out they wouldn't have subscribed in the first place without them.
Virgin also ended up backing down as I presume they realised that peeing customers, current or future, off is not a good thing to do and that's especially true now social media is all the rage. The also quickly backed down after they introduced traffic shaping in peak hours have advertised it as unlimited downloads. What's the point of paying for a fast connection if you download a game and that connection is crippled before the download is even finished.