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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Video games could have had a single version for the entire world which contains every localization that the user can freely choose between (you know, like every other software with an international market), but Nintendo popularized the geolocking model that other competitors also started using. (And no it's not because it would take too much space, that might have been true in the ROM cartridge days but now most game cards are just overpriced proprietary SD cards with hundreds of gigabytes of storage, and it's not like game studios are particularly conservative with file sizes nowadays.)

Phones also could have had removable batteries and could be disassembled, but Apple popularized the throw it in a dumpster and get a new one model that other competitors also started using.

The tech industry is especially brazen because two thirds of the users literally value convenience and "polish" above data ownership and device repair rights and literally anything else and the other third is just ignored and everyone calls them stuck in the past, paranoid, amish, etc.

[–] DrDominate@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Monetization is the natural path of capitalism. It would not have stayed free for long.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think folks remember how truly shitty Nintendo‘s online service was when it was free. The fact is these companies will not put meaningful resources into them unless they are directly generating revenue. I hate it, but that’s reality.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

...It's improved? Doesn't it still handle communication weirdly (needing a separate app for voice chat), or is that on a game-by-game basis?

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was awful prior. The netcode was terrible, MP was a joke on virtually every game.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I really don't see how this is any better, they are using the same peer to peer netcode they always have. Maybe the general quality of Internet has gone up, but there is nothing I can point to that Nintendo has fundamentally changed between previous free MP and NSO, except giving some ROMS and DLC occasionally. Smash bros is still a lag fest with wireless players, splatoon still delays collision detection, Mario kart still has weird rubber banding and desync.. they just slapped a price tag on it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's still shitty even now that you pay for it. The free retro emulation doesn't offset the connection issues and massive lag, nor does it excuse the god awful store.

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