• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I’ve been annoyed since multi-player became a paid service since the ps3, but it’s nice to finally have some validation. Only took 20 years but…

      E: and we can’t forget the rootkit fiasco either

      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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        You had to pay to play online on Xbox a decade before that. It was free on PlayStation. When they changed it I just stopped playing online.

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          Yeah, I had an Xbox for one game (Midtown Madness 3), and played through the trial for live, but never subscribed. I’m not sure if I paid for a month of psn+ during the gta5 launch, but if I did that would have been the only time I’ve put money to play multi-player. Didn’t take the bait for Games for Windows Live garbage either. It would take until the pc release of Halo 3/ODST/Reach/4 for me to play them, even though I badly wanted to play in their prime. Principles and all that. And I was pissed that MS shelved their windows gaming division to milk the Xbox.

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        1 day ago

        Same!

        And yeah, getting 2 free games for compromising all user data, months before they launch PSN plus with rotating free games… Felt odd…

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      They enshittified long before the PS5 came out. I think it’s been about two decades since the music CD rootkit scandal, for instance.

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      Bit late to the party. They got caught infecting their customers’ machines with rootkits back in 2005.

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        I still cannot believe that no one went to jail over that.

        I mean I can, corporations are only people when it results in a positive outcome for them, but still. A fucking rootkit.