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6ad6ro · 3 years ago

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there's a lot of posts about piracy going around rn. so here's mine:

anti-piracy arguments are almost always classist. you shouldn't need to be rich to be happy. we were all born into capitalism. it's not voluntary. many of us don't have parents or other support networks keeping us afloat. poor people still deserve to have nice things. i could care less about keeping a system running smoothly that keeps most people poor and only few people rich.

if you work a shitty, low-paying job, then a simple monthly streaming service fee is YES actually too much to ask. no i don't care if your fav big company loses "potential" money from people who couldn't afford to buy them to begin with.

if there wasn't such a thing as "poverty"? if people could generally AFFORD to go out and easily get the things they want and need? obviously piracy wouldn’t be much of an issue at all. it's always frustrating to hear anti-piracy arguments from people who ignore how CRAZY expensive cost of living has become. again, usually the biggest anti-piracy peeps are either naive rich kids (who have things paid for), rich ppl who STAY rich by keeping things broken like they are, and the poor people they’ve brainwashed into being submissive hosts to their parasitic behavior.

in a world like this, where people are overworked and tired? with very few tangible goals available in their future? people NEED entertainment to stay sane. it's literally a mental health issue. yes, in a way, you NEED that funny show to inspire yourself to keep going. that game you can't afford otherwise? will help you relax after a hard day. don't let some disney mouthpiece tell you shouldn't download lion king if it'd help calm you down, especially when the people running that company could probably afford to have a private zoo in their backyard.

there's ALSO the big issue of control. as companies move further and further into streaming and cloud technologies? ownership has become a huge issue. greedy companies are finding more and more ways to nickel and dime people over long periods of time rather than get a one-time fee. it makes them more money, they don't have to actually GIVE customers anything (copies of data are free to them). and customers are left with nothing to show for it after-the-fact. this means that even though entertainment is being produced way more than the past? i’d argue people have LESS access to the entertainment they want for how much they’re paying. because it’s all temporary.

drm and limited use is becoming a norm. meaning? it's harder and harder for people to "own" their favorite things even if they COULD afford it. your favorite movie might simply cease to exist in 20 years. your favorite game might become nothing but a fragmented memory.

"piracy" solves this. backups. ownership. it takes control away from companies who abused that power. and puts it back in your hands. when nintendo stopped making their back catalogue available? and went around shutting down all the emulation sites? i was thankfully in the clear. because i download and archived many of my favorite things. in many cases i own cartridges of my favorite games already? but those can break, or in my case, get caught in a flood. but due to piracy, i can still play "mario 64" to pull myself away from suicidal thoughts. and i'm not limited by nintendo randomly deciding to remove it from the switch store and take the cartridges off of store shelves? in order to drive up their yearly profit via copycatting the methods used for the "disney vault" scam (look it up).

i am someone who tends to enjoy things from other countries. but it can be INCREDIBLY restrictive to try to go through "official" channels attempting to pay for them. if i want that old, relatively unpopular 80s japanese prog rock album? i'm just stuck. i HAVE to hope someone is sharing it online. but this often applies to new things as well. "licensing" is generally INCREDIBLY stupid, especially when it comes to other regions. do you REALLY want simple licensing issues to stand between you and your potential new favorite anime? and in many cases, the distributors just don't care enough to make the thing available globally. and no, i don't think this should mean we all just "miss out".

one of the biggest issues we are experiencing online at the moment? is one of censorship. governmental censorship, religious censorship, and maybe worst of all? corporate censorship. i'm not talking about "bring back racist imagery" etc (but that DOES play a part). i'm more talking... rewriting history. edits. removal. for example, it shouldn't be left to some corporation to decide whether or not a sex scene in a movie is deemed "too racy" for today's audience. if somebody creates an amazing album, but then commits some awful unrelated act later, that shouldn't mean that album should be made unavailable. in many cases, old media can even TEACH us what NOT to do. we gain nothing by erasing history. and corporations are never doing it to be moral. they're only following required guidelines in order to maximize profit. “fake showings of morality” to keep up appearances and keep all potential buyers buying. piracy can give you the OPTION of access to unedited works, or things that have been removed from circulation.

piracy can negate corporate control and artificial-scarcity. create opportunities for absorbing other culture's art without having to deal with availability issues in your country. it circumvents corporate and governmental censorship. and helps you archive the art that makes your life worth living.

finally... the "but it's stealing and stealing is wrong" argument is invalidated by the fact that, by ANY moral compass? these companies are STEALING from US. constantly. by a LOT. look at the way any big company is run. the way it leeches off of it's customer base. the offshore tax havens... does THAT seem okay to YOU?! if someone went around stealing all the food and locking it up, would you REALLY consider "breaking in" to get some so that u didn't starve as "stealing"? don't pretend that you don't NEED escapism and entertainment to get by. you know that you do.

the only people that piracy COULD hurt? is small, independent artists. who, if you actually listen to them, would rather you send them money directly? or buy merch. etc. because companies usually take SUCH an awful cut that it’s better to find alternate ways of supporting them. if you use reasonable context with what you decide to download and share? it’s fine! like i might buy a depeche mode vinyl or two? or a shirt. or go to a concert. but i’ll pirate that $1000 rare box set. because i just can’t AFFORD that kind of excess. and my income doesn’t dictate how big of a fan i am of their music. as long as you chip in when you can to your favorite creators? it’s actually fine. if i didn’t pirate, i wouldn’t be into 95% of the artists i’m currently into. i’ve spent so much on media that it’s almost embarrassing... my argument might not be entirely black and white? but i can safely say that piracy’s positives GREATLY outweigh it’s negatives. most research done has shown time and time again that it doesn’t really hurt creators. if anything, it’s the way greedy companies REACT to the idea of file sharing that hurts those creators. it really is an argument of big corporations trying to make sure they keep ALL the money. and it has almost nothing to do with art or artist’s rights. so please keep sharing everything. download away. for the sake of your own sanity, and generations down the line. because corporations don’t care about you. they don’t care about artists. and they don’t care about maintaining easy access to the art. they just want money, regardless of the cost to everyone else’s happiness. and if you can afford to PAY for it regularly? you should consider yourself very lucky. so maybe stop shitting all over poor people who unfairly have less access to what you already have. everybody deserves to be happy.

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 years ago

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#5yrsago How to fix copyright in two easy steps (and one hard one)

My new Locus column, A New Deal for Copyright, summarizes the argument in my book Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, and proposes a set of policy changes we could make that would help artists make money in the Internet age while decoupling copyright from Internet surveillance and censorship.

There are two small policy interventions that would make a huge difference to the balance of commercial power in the arts, while safeguarding human rights and civil liberties.

1. Reform DRM law.

It should never be a crime to:

* Report a vulnerability in a DRM;

* Remove DRM to accomplish a lawful purpose.

With this simple reform, DRM would no longer turn our devices into long-lived reservoirs of pathogens (because bugs could be reported as soon as they were discovered), and would no longer give the whip-hand over publishing to tech companies (because removing DRM to do something legal, like moving a book between two different readers, would be likewise legal).

2. Reform intermediary liability.

* The DMCA ‘‘safe harbor’’ should require submission of evidence that the identified works are indeed infringing;

* If you file a DMCA takedown notice that materially misrepresents the facts as you know them or should have known them, you should be liable to stiff, exemplary statutory damages, with both the intermediary and the creator of the censored work having a cause of action against you, and with the courts having the power to award costs to the victims’ lawyers.

By ensuring a minimum standard of care for censorship demands, and penalties for abuse, the practice of carelessly sending millions of sloppily compiled takedowns would be stopped dead (last year, Fox perjured itself and had copies of my novel Homeland removed from sites that were authorized to host them, because it couldn’t be bothered to distinguish my novel from its TV show). Likewise, penalties for abuse with a loser-pays system of fees would give the victims of malicious censorship attempts grounds for punishing the wrongdoers who make a mockery of out the copyright holder’s toolkit to silence their opponents.

But so long as we’re making a wish-list, here’s the big policy change that would make all this stuff much less fraught: STOP APPLYING COPYRIGHT TO ANYONE EXCEPT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

A New Deal for Copyright

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brajeshupadhyay · 5 years ago

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GOG Spring Sale Brings Discounts on Over 2,500 Games and 27 Free Games

GOG is running a huge sale as part of which over 2,500 games have received massive discounts. The GOG Spring Sale in now live and will go on through March 30. The sale offers some critically acclaimed titles such as The Witcher trio, Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition, Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, Into the Breach, and Outlast: Whistleblower at a hefty discount. Plus, if you don’t want to spend a penny, GOG has got you covered in that department as well with 27 free games on the platter.

A majority of games that is currently available with discounts during the GOG Spring Sale are not exactly ‘latest’ AAA titles. But that doesn’t mean you have bad choices on offer. In fact, some of them are worth every penny and continue to have a large legion of fans. So, here are some of the best deals on games that are worth checking out:

Disco Elysium – $29.99 (roughly Rs. 2,250)

Stardew Valley – $11.99 (roughly Rs. 900)

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales – $9.99 (roughly Rs. 750)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Game of the Year Edition) – $14.99 (roughly Rs. 1,000)

The Witcher Collection (All Games + Expansions) – $44.41 (roughly Rs. 3,300 )

Beyond Good & Evil – $3.39 (roughly Rs. 250)

Far Cry 2: Fortune’s Edition – $3.99 (roughly Rs. 300)

Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Bundle – $4.99 (roughly Rs. 400)

Rayman Origins – $6.79 (roughly Rs. 500)

Deadlight: Director’s Cut – $2.39 (roughly Rs. 180)

Metro: Last Light Redux – $4.99 (roughly Rs. 370)

Metro 2033 Redux – $4.99 (roughly Rs. 370)

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell – $3.49 (roughly Rs. 260)

Ancestors Legacy – $11.89 (roughly Rs. 900)

Deep Sky Derelicts: Station Life – $6.29 (roughly Rs. 470)

King’s Bounty: Dark Side – Premium Edition – $4.99 (roughly Rs. 370)

Re-Legion – $4.99 (roughly Rs. 370)

Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear – $9.99 (roughly Rs. 750)

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition – $9.99 (roughly Rs. 750)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition – $22.49 (roughly Rs. 1,700)

Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete – $2.49 (roughly Rs. 190)

Hollow Knight – $7.49 (roughly Rs. 560)

Diablo (With Hellfire) – $8.49 (roughly Rs. 640)

Neverwinter Nights: Tyrants of the Moonsea – $4.99 (roughly Rs.340)

Dishonored 2 – $13.99 (roughly Rs. 1050)

Stellaris – $9.99 (roughly Rs. 750)

Outlast: Whistleblower – $1.34 (roughly Rs. 100)

In case you are self-isolating due to the coronavirus outbreak and want to kill some time with games, but don’t feel like spending, GOG’s Stay at home catalogue will serve you well. Some of the games you should score from the freebies section are Cayne, Doomdark’s Revenge, Eschalon: Book I, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, Hello Neighbor Alpha Version, and Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius. GOG Spring Sale ends on March 30, so you have plenty of time at your hands to pick some good deals.

In case you are not aware, GOG is owned by CD Projekt Red and was launched in 2008 as a repository for DRM-free games. All games up for grabs on GOG come without any DRM restrictions and can be played without an Internet connection. GOG, formerly Good Old Games, also covers all of your purchases with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Steam vs GOG vs GreenManGaming: which is best for PC gamers?

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Steam vs GOG vs GreenManGaming: which is best for PC gamers?

These days, when you’re looking for the best deal on the best PC games, you have hundreds of online retailers to choose from. These range from mainstream, dependable clients trusted by millions of customers to shady key re-sellers that make you feel like you’re in the seedy underbelly of some sci-fi city.

However, the way we look at it, there are just three retailers that can basically cover every need you may have. Whether you’re looking for a centralized platform where you can socialize with friends, something that focuses solely on selling you games at great prices or a site that will sell you DRM-free titles that you can play anywhere or any time – we’ve got you covered.

Plus, now that Valve has landed itself in a bit of hot water over its policy (or lack thereof) over what’s allowed on its platform, we thought it’d be a great time to look at the three biggest digital game distributors to find out what’s best for you, the consumer.

The three most important platforms to consider are Steam, GOG (or Good Old Games), and GreenManGaming. It’s incredibly rare that any game you’re looking for won’t find its way onto one (if not all) of these platforms. But, that’s easy – which one is the best for you? Well, that’s what we’re here to decide.

GreenManGaming may well be the cheapest place from which to buy PC games.

Deals

Perhaps the most important aspect of any online retailer is the pricing, and it’s complicated. Now, while they all run seasonal sales for all the major holidays and changes in season, they all have certain aspects where they stand above the others.

GreenManGaming, or GMG (seen above), sometimes appears as the cheapest place to buy games, and if you’re buying any game that’s relatively new, that’s absolutely true. For instance, throughout June, GMG has a discount code prominently displayed that will score you up to 25% off of any PC game.

And, when it says any PC game, it’s true: you can score the newly-released Vampyr for just $37.49, as opposed to $49.99 elsewhere in the US. It also runs weekly sales, but these are usually obscure indie titles, rather than games by big-name publishers – making it a great place to score indie games.

Just keep in mind, GreenManGaming has faced some controversy in the past for allegedly being part of the ‘grey market’ – an allegation the retailer has denied in a statement to PC Gamer.

Steam offers deals daily, and even bigger ones during major events.

When it comes to Steam, however, you likely won’t save anything on a new release, due to the fact that it doesn’t really need to discount any new games – it’s the biggest and most popular of the three. However, Steam’s weekly deals usually cover moderately recent and popular titles, and you’ll usually get a deep discount at that. For instance, at the time of this writing, you can score the new Warhammer: Vermintide II for a cool 25% off – without any moral grey areas.

That’s not all, though – Steam has made itself famous over the years for its gigantic seasonal sales. About four times a year, the entire (or close to) Steam catalog will go on sale, letting you scoop up tons of games and save a boat load of cash. The next one should be coming up here in a couple of weeks, so ready your wallet – and be careful not to overspend.

GOG naturally sells games at discount, being a purveyor of classic PC games.

GOG stands in a league of its own, however, as it’s made its name by selling old games. So, not only are most games cheaper by default, but when they have a seasonal sale, the prices really get slashed.

At the time of writing, GOG is in the process of a gigantic seasonal sale – not only can you score huge discounts on old favorites, but you can score free games for spending a certain amount.

User experience

This is where things get interesting. It’d be easy to just proclaim Steam as the uncontested victor here – who doesn’t have Steam installed on their computer?

However, it’s not as simple as that. Sure, Steam is extremely familiar to most PC gaming vets, but is it actually that straightforward to use? By modern standards, Steam hasn’t exactly aged gracefully – its grey, blocky and eats up a ton of system resources for a program that’s supposed to run in the background.

The main benefit of Steam then, is that the desktop program has everything you’ll need to play games and stay updated on them. There’s news, community, client-level chat tools and your game library all conveniently located in the same place. We just wish it looked like it came from this decade.

GOG’s Galaxy app is 100% optional – it’s not required to play any of its games.

GOG also has its own dedicated desktop program, Galaxy, and while it’s not as feature-rich as Steam, it’s a lot more lightweight and modern looking – which is ironic for a service known as ‘Good Old Games.’

And, while GOG Galaxy is a smooth, pleasant experience it has a major benefit over Steam’s app – it’s 100% optional. Instead of being a store that doubles as a DRM, GOG Galaxy bills itself as a convenient companion to your gaming experience, rather than a requirement for it. You can just as easily buy and download your games from a web page instead.

GMG, however, doesn’t have its own dedicated software at all. Instead, GMG is basically just a web marketplace where you can buy game keys to redeem on other platforms. So, there’s nothing especially unique about its interface, and GMG is easily the loser here.

Steam is the clear winner when it comes to community and social features.

Social and community

Now, while both GreenManGaming and GOG both offer some community features, they’re extremely limited. GMG has game hubs and forums, with customizable user profiles, whereas GOG is more barren by not offering game hubs – but it has chat. It’s immediately clear when using either of these services that community is secondary. For some people this probably won’t matter at all – it’s all about the games, after all.

However, if you do want a very robust gaming community on par with – and perhaps more advanced than – what’s offered by the PS4 and Xbox One, you’re going to have to go with Steam.

Initially starting out by just offering user chat through text and voice, Steam has since expanded its community features by adding game hubs, social badges, and community events – usually centered around its seasonal sales.

Then, back in 2016, Steam implemented a community-wide leveling system along with trading cards that users can earn by playing their favorite games. These levels not only allow you to feel superior to your peers, but they also allow you to customize your profile to your heart’s content – adding more friend slots and customization options the higher you go. It’s not perfect, but it’s a unique and addictive feature that we can’t get enough of.

Steam is the clear winner of this contest, but it doesn’t have the distant lead it once held.

Verdict

At the end of the day, if you want the most features, Steam is still probably the best place to go, dubious curation aside. The prices are decent, it’s packed with a thriving community and most games will force you to use it anyways, if only just as a DRM.

The other platforms do have their uses, and our advice would be to use all of them periodically to get the best prices and features. The way we do it is basically use Steam as a default, go to GMG if we need to save a couple bucks, and go to GOG if we need an older game that’s not on the other services.

We think that’s the best way to approach the wide range of different retailers: you shouldn’t stick to just one, take advantage of the myriad options available to you – that’s not even counting publisher-specific platforms, like EA’s Origin or Ubisoft’s Uplay.

It all boils down to what you’re looking for, and what’s important to you. Go forth with this knowledge and start growing that backlog.

TechRadar’s fourth annual PC Gaming Week is officially here, celebrating our passion with in-depth and exclusive coverage of PC gaming from every angle. Visit our PC Gaming Week 2018 page to see all of the coverage in one place.

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10 Measures To Ending Up Being A Recording Musician.

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#5yrsago Downpour.com: audiobooks without the DRM

I love audiobooks, but I hate DRM (actually, I think it's an existential threat to humanity), and since Audible requires all its books to be sold with DRM (even when the publishers object), that's left me with limited options -- until 2014, when I discovered Downpour.

Downpour has a huge selection of audiobooks -- pretty much everything that isn't locked up as an Audible exclusive (Audible has a lot of these, including several book-ones of long-running series that they've bought up and then effectively blocked off). They're cheap -- priced competitively with Audible. They're convenient. They have a great subscription service that gives you a discount if you prepurchase one book per month (after a long drought brought on by my refusal to deal with Audible, I've been gorging on many more titles than this!).

Most of all, they're a competitive hedge against Audible. The company controls 90% of the audiobook market and are the sole supplier to Itunes. Amazon, Audible's parent company, isn't shy about squeezing its supply chain when it attains market dominance. The fact that they demand DRM on all their products gives them even more competitive leverage to use against publishers and writers, since every Audible book you buy is locked to Audible's platform, and it's a felony to unlock them and move them to a competing one.

DRM-free protects your investment in audiobooks. If you bought DRM-free CDs in the 1990s and 2000s, you can easily load the music on them onto all the devices you own today and will own tomorrow -- all the major OSes come with free CD ripping software to make this easier for you. But if you bought DRM-locked DVDs before everything went digital, there are no legal products to help you accomplish this trick: Apple (whose Rip, Mix, Burn Itunes app is designed to get your music into your Ios devices for free) wants you to buy all those DVDs again from Itunes -- or you can buy them from Amazon, Hulu, etc. What you can't do is take your stuff with you into the digital age -- not unless you want to lug an increasingly useless DVD player around with you for the rest of time (like being tethered to an 8-track player for all eternity!).

When you buy from Downpour instead of Audible, you get the same book, at the same price, but you get a better product, because you don't have to worry about having it taken away from you by the march of time or the greed of faceless corporations that view you as an ambulatory wallet.

All my audiobooks are available on Downpour, without DRM. Unlike Audible, they respect my decision not to lock you in (Audible flat-out refuses to carry my books unless they are allowed to add their DRM to them). Questions about whether our computers are designed to control us or liberate us will only gain importance from here on in, and I'm so glad to have a retailer I can rely on to be on the right side of that fight.

For the record: Downpour is not a Boing Boing advertiser, and did not ask me to write about them. This post is the result of my sincere affection for the company, its products, and its business practices.

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Music and Sound Tracks

Inning accordance with David Lynch, one of the most ingenious international directors, video clips are 50% visual and 50% sound, and also, sometimes, the sound overplays the aesthetic. Consequently, it is necessary to include good sound in the video. Several video clip creators have the tendency to concentrate more on the visuals at the expenditure of the music being used in the video clip. In technique, this is constantly a huge mistake that leads to an average video clip. The intent of any type of video clip that is shared online is to evoke feelings. This is attainable through the sound of songs. The sound does not have to be amusing or ludicrous to produce the appropriate psychological experience. Provided the importance of sound, the finest technique is to accredit good songs online from a royalty free music supplier. Despite the fact that one can utilize complimentary songs, it is essential keeping in mind that complimentary songs is cost-free for a particular reason. Therefore, spending a little loan on music will certainly allow one to get the ideal audio feasible. Picking a music track that is perfect adds more value to a freshly created video clip as well as makes it attractive to the customers. Consequently, it is important to niffy branco go the added mile to sample different beats that are appropriate to the topic of the video.

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One could access premium quality noises as well as songs from the following sites. First, eMusic is a subscription-based store that provides a broad variety of songs in MP3 format. It is the world's biggest store of independent music and also has more than 3.5 million tracks. The cost of membership begins with $11.99 each month, and also as soon as can terminate the registration at any kind of time without losing the songs. Second, Amazon offers DRM-free music on its on the internet system. Amazon has a wide variety of offers on different days. Accordingly, one can target these deals to allow them cut on the price of acquiring quality sound tracks. Third, Audio Lunchbox is an easy-to-explore system that offers a huge selection from different styles. Users could authorize for regular monthly accessibility or purchase

tracks on a la carte basis. When one indicators for a registration, the website supplies totally free downloads of 50 tracks. Other feasible sites to get songs and sound tracks of the best top quality include Jamendo, Amie Street, Napster, LiveDownloads, Bleep, iTunes, and LimeWire Shop to name a few. Generally, paying a little quantity for the songs guarantees a person could access high-quality clips to contribute to the video being produced. Furthermore, it permits one to access a large range of sound tracks that are suitable to the video clip. When the right sound or songs is picked, it is crucial to establish the audio degrees suitably. In practice, every individual developing a video clip tends to have individual point of views on what audio levels are requirements. As necessary, the referrals below are not by any type of indicates a regulation when creating the video clip. The general mix level could be from -10 db to -14 db; dialogue ought to vary from -12 db to -15 db; the music should be from -18 db to -22 db; and also sound effects ought to be from 10db to -20 db. To conclude, the best song with ideal setups can actually regulate the target market to really feel the way they are meant to really feel when viewing the video clip. Therefore, one should commit sufficient time to select as well as include the appropriate tune to any kind of recently developed video.

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Rant #1: The brutal self-slaughter of my former favorite company and why I think comparing Electronic Arts to Bethesda Softworks is ignorant and irrational

Before I get started I’d like to make clear that my opinions presented here are subject to change, dependent on current events and my future beliefs. This post does in no way intend to manipulate the reader’s view on the situation or try and showcase my conviction as being the factual one regarding the topic, it only presents my personal reaction towards the statement featured in the title and should be treated as such.

I dislike rants. I dislike rambling in general, I find it to be a huge time-waster with little to no sense of rewarding. This is probably the first such post that I ever write, and I can’t say I’m quite pleased with my decision, but the subject at hand really provoked me. I feel that writing down my view on it, saving it someplace where I can see it later on in life (and remind myself of my past ways of thinking, as well as the reasoning behind them) is the best course of action. Regarding the second half of the title: I completely understand this is not a big deal, but making Electronic Arts look like the bad guy is something that I’ve seen mentioned for over a decade now in the gaming field, very few times being also backed up by solid arguments. I’m here to present it from my perspective.

Electronic Arts... a name as big in the industry as it is infamous. At least by common standards. Standards that (presumably) mostly come from reading the dumb, uninformed YouTube comment. Hell, I wouldn’t even be surprised if the vast majority of “experts” that comment defamatory remarks at EA's address have never touched any of the company's games. But how could they, right?! You need to pay, what, one hundred dollars for the Deluxe/Premium/Ultimate edition, which is in truth the actual content that assembles the main game... right?

Maybe.

This old company that the average customer loves to bash in ignorance is the same one who grants you complete access to full editions of over 75 of their titles, for €4 a month. It’s the same company who puts their game on sale for €10 one year after its release.. be lucky if you manage to score a €30 deal with other companies’ games in such a short time after launch (and in a sale). Not to mention, they actually have a working DRM *cough* Ubisoft *cough* and customer support.. *cough* Valve *cough*.

But enough about that. I'm not here to lick EA's boots, just pointing out how pathetic it looks to me when people keep complaining about this company 24/7 when there are much bigger culprits in the industry.

Culprits.. like Bethesda. Yeah. Something the old me would never believe he'd write. I wasn't just a fan of Bethesda Softworks. I loved Bethesda. I would read all the lore of their universes for hours on end, at school, at home, even before going to sleep. Hell, I didn't think The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim vanilla was a bad game at all to begin with, but when I discovered modding and found out that the Creation Kit, the godly tool that unlocked such a vast world (inside an already huge world), was brought to us by the developers, I went crazy for this team.

The introduction of paid mods.

Not only was it a global letdown when Valve + Bethesda announced paid mods on Steam back in 2015, it was unfortunately only the beginning of something much darker for BethSoft. Now, to be fair with you, I was willing to give them a second chance as customer after that absolute mess, more or less because I saw the partnership with Valve (a company that I stopped respecting since at least 4 years ago, for reasons that are now obvious worldwide) and I couldn't help but assume that they had the upper hand on here. It was downright difficult for a die-hard fan of Bethesda Studios to just drop all respect for them and accuse them at the fullest (or at least mostly) for the wrongdoing. Nonetheless they lost a big sense of meaning at that time, to me and many other fans as well.

When the "Special Edition" of Skyrim rolled out last fall I genuinely thought that was a bad joke. I went and read its system requirements, up to this day I cannot fathom how some improved shaders and lighting system along with some small improvements to textures require a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 as graphic processor. It's beyond insulting the way this company neglects any kind of optimization processes for their products.

One year later, here we are: Creation Club. What the actual hell, Bethesda? What the actual hell? Here’s the trailer, it should speak more than mere words can:

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The best course of action here is to fight for what we stand for. Don't let Bethesda win this fight. They've lost it once already, but it seems they're coming back with a much, much greedier and more disgusting ploy.

Some more detailed information about this Creation Club mess, as I really do not have the mood to write more about it and ultimately ruin my state of mind:

Creation Club on Fallout Wikia

A very succinct description in video format, by Gopher:

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It’sAGundam goes much less family-friendly into the topic, but his points are very valid:

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An extremely flawed system explained by YongYea:

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I don’t see how it could get worse than this... but I actually have a feeling it still will. At this point, Bethesda Softworks is not just an anti-consumer company, they're inarguably becoming a threat to the industry. They have the power to manipulate other companies' directions, they have the power to manipulate renowned modders into falling for their trap (as proved in the 2015 scandal). But I believe they don't have the power to treat us, customers, like some absolute fools, and to succeed in doing so. I believe we can take the fight to them. For a greedy company like this, where fan service means absolutely nothing today, money speak in totality. Bethesda does not deserve to be given further financial support. Not until they wake up and realize the damage they're creating.

If Bethesda really doesn't want to give up their unethical practices (and so far, it does indeed look like they're going to keep living in a dream), they have to be put down. The company that once held the crown for creating the best sandbox role-playing games, with unlimited modding possibilities, is now digging its own grave. But it won’t lay itself inside.

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Let's face it, Bethesda: you would never be where you are now — up there at the top, laughing in your customers' faces — if it wasn't for your community. So many people still keep playing games that go as far back as The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, because of modding. As great as your games might initially be, in a vanilla state very few people would still play a 15 years old game on a regular basis. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still up in the players' charts today thanks to the dedicated modders that spare hundreds of hours from their lives to expand the base game’s content. Not to mention the insane amount of bugs that every of your games has: you never fixed that, Bethesda. It was the community who did it for you. Free of charge.

I began this article by writing about Electronic Arts and never got around talking about its relevance to the topic. That’s simply because I wanted to make clear my thoughts about Bethesda Softworks first. You see, while searching up the community’s reaction to this whole scandal I couldn’t help but notice a couple dozen comments comparing the “new” Bethesda Studios to Electronic Arts. Mostly saying they've become just as bad.

I know, I know.. why do some meaningless comments matter to me? This post should be about Bethesda's fall from glory, not about this. And to be fair I did debate whether to write this in a separate post or not to write it at all. I understand it might not be a big deal, but it does really drive me nuts. I consider the society's uninformed opinions to be just as damaging as Bethesda's recent actions.

Because these uninformed opinions carry on. They influence people. They influence companies' rate of success. Paid mods were taken down in 2015, a few days after their launch, for the fact that the community made its voice heard. All the comments raging at Valve and Bethesda's poor attempt could be translated into a substantial financiar loss for the companies.

With the Electronic Arts case, things are slightly different: we aren't talking about a mass of hateful comments bashing at the team in just a few days' time, we are talking about the worldwide consensus that EA is a "bad" company. This consensus has been spread out in a wide variety of ways, mainly through chats, comments, forums talks etc. and in a very high amount of time (basically since at least ten years ago). It was initially based on the fact (among other things) that you often had to pay for the game's "Premium" edition in order to receive content that was classified by the standard gamer as mandatory for the base game. Later on the consensus was adopted by.. just about a lot of people on the Internet. And that's how it went viral, it basically became a "meme", so to say. Bad things happen in the gaming world, the community instantly associates it with EA. This is not only morally wrong, but it does affect the company as well, for reasons that should be obvious.

"So what? Let them suffer, it's not fair having to pay €100 for a game in order to get the full edition." While I agree that most of the DLCs for EA's games are somewhat mandatory (especially if you're planning to play online), one should not forget the points that I made in the initial paragraphs of this post. If money is indeed such a big issue, wait for a sale. Their games' prices drop by a lot even during the first year. At least you have the assurance of quality control. You pay for a game that... you know, actually works, it's not riddled with bugs.

"How does that still relate to Bethesda?" When people compare these two studios they do it just because they're trying to put Bethesda to shame, really. Most of the time they don't even think twice before hitting the "Send" button: "Just stick EA's name in the comment so everyone can understand I'm only trying to make Bethesda look bad. I might have actually never played an Electronic Arts game, I sure as hell have never read any documentation on them, but hey, they're a meme, everyone refers to them as the bad guy so it has to be true." Their comment/message might literally not try and say anything disparaging about EA, they probably just want to put the focus on Bethesda, but the fact that they're using the brand name as a means to make something else look bad is absolutely ignorant. You are comparing every single damaging event in the industry to one company's marketing unpopular opinion, how crazy is that?

Electronic Arts has made its fair share of mistakes in its time (I agree, buying smaller, good companies and later firing their staff is not cool at all; releasing a new edition of Most Wanted is still supposed to be a Most Wanted game, not a Burnout game), but comparing it to a company that tries and monetize a feature that has been globally free since 1980 (Castle Smurfenstein) is downright insulting. If according to the society EA is “bad”, then Bethesda must be the devil itself. Unfortunately people will continue to bash at Electronic Arts without backing up any of the criticism with straight facts and/or proof.

The point of this section is not to make EA seem like the victim and Bethesda like the villain. It merely summarizes that if you’re trying to show your feeling of antipathy towards Bethesda Studios through a comparison with another company, then you should pick a suitable candidate. Don’t just rush at placing Electronic Arts' name in your post because you know that will draw attention and favoritism from fellow poor-informed members. It’s a shame that out of all the gaming companies out there, some with much higher rates of greediness, the community has crowned EA as the “greater evil”.

Times have changed, people. Maybe a few years ago the main problem in the gaming industry was indeed the high pricing and the necessity of purchasing a Premium pack in order to enjoy what the whole game has to offer, but if you think that’s still the main issue nowadays then I am afraid you are living in the past. Welcome to 2017, where we are greeted with microtransactions in singleplayer-exclusive titles, card games over card games with little to no difference between each other (except the company your money for in-game items will go to) and an actual increase in the game’s price during the sale, just so it can be “discounted” to very, very little below the normal price (yeah, I know that happened in 2015, but I trust you catch my drift as to what’s happening in the “new world”). While these things are happening and the industry is falling apart, people are still busy complaining about a company that gives you a full-fledged product for a higher sum of money than the “standard” one. And then offers it to you on sale during the next 12 months.

Bethesda has reached an all-time new low and no other company comes to mind that is as brain-dead, heartless and greedy as them, but if you really have to use a comparison to prove your point, for the love of God step up your game and stop mentioning Electronic Arts. There is Valve out there who keeps milking the same damn three games for years now instead of producing anything original, they have a barely functional DRM, their customer support is safe to be assumed AWOL at this point in time and now they’re releasing a card game to further milk money away from players. Take-Two Interactive literally tried to definitively shut down modding for Grand Theft Auto V. There you have Activision shooting themselves in the foot with the Call of Duty franchise, releasing pretty much the same game year after year, also charging the same amount of money for the Deluxe version as EA would for a game that is actually original.

But Electronic Arts is still “the worst company”. Ok.

To sum this up (because it’s getting late, I want a cup of hot chocolate and to play some good old Dragon Age):

Maybe EA is bad. Maybe it isn’t. But it’s certainly not the culprit of the industry anymore, considering all the petty/greedy attempts of other companies in recent years. To compare it to Bethesda, however, is a whole other story. It’s insulting. Bethesda Softworks is not just greedy, they have become a threat.

Bethesda Studios is the kind of wounded owner who kicks his own faithful dog with a club after it comes and licks its master’s wounds. That kick is painful and performed with a Creation Club.

I ran out of hot chocolate sachets.

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