Yeah, It´s kinda fucked up since normally, competition is good for the customer. It´s a good thing to have different stores you can go to. It´s a cood thing to have different car or moobile phone brands to chose from.
With streaming though, I can´t really think of any real world situation where the customer actually is worse off with more variety to chose from.
You are aware that we are in a piracy group here, right? We don´t want our money back. Because we didn´t pay for it in the first place!
What does this have to do with laws though? I find it pretty reasonable for a film company to be able or allowed to run their own streaming platform and just not sell their shows to say netflix. If I create something that I want to sell my self, in my own store, there should be no law forcing me to also hand it over to that supermarket down the streat to sell it there. And if I want to charge a monthly fee for even being able to enter my own little store, that should also not be prohibited.
Imagine there would be a law that said, every studio would also have to sell their stuff to netflix. You think, Netflix wouldn´t immediately abuse this power to drive any competition out of business?
Don´t get me wrong, I HATE that to be able to watch all the stuff I might be interrested in, I´d have to subscribe to like 5 different services. I just don´t see how laws would be a good tool to deal with that.
That´s on my "want to read" list.
That´s so insane, right? I mean, they practically had us in the bag with netflix. People either had their own account or chipped in to use someone elses one BUT EITHER WAY, THEY PAID FOR IT! And then came one of the rare moments where more competition was actually bad.
What WAS their next cash grab though?
Here are some more:
That´s actually insane for one year!
Back then, studios had to actually make new games to make more money. Nowadays, you make one game and then just milk it for a decade.
Ich musste fix kündigen um aus dem 180€ Vertrag durch Sonderkündigung raus zu kommen. Jetzt zahl ich 105. Hätte ich jetzt erst gewechselt würde ich, beim selben Anbieter, nur 85 zahlen. Ärgerlich. Aber hätte ich damals nicht gekündigt, hätte ich noch bis ende des Jahres 180 gezahlt, und das wär noch schlimmer gewesen.
There´s a inbuilt store where you buy and download them. It´s basically android under the hood, you can even install regular android apps via the apk. So if there were pico game apks out there, I´d say that´s all it would take.
EDIT: Looks like I found a discord that has what you are looking for. Report back if it worked for you! https://discord.gg/FtWVdRGg
I´m wondering about that as well. I know that you can in fact install apk files on it, so by my estimation, if yut get a hold of a cracked apk of a pico game, you´d be set.
Oh mann du könntest sogar recht haben. Hab mir mal die Google Bewertungen der Firma angesehen. Die haben echt viele richtig schlechte Bewertungen wenn es um die Durchführung der Reiningungen usw. geht. Seit dem "Vorfall" hagelt es aber 5 Sterne mit so Sätzen wie "Pünktliche und engagierte Mitarbeiter, die alle Hindernisse aus dem Weg räumen!" oder "Top Service. Mitarbeiter kam heute trotz Protest in der Innenstadt pünktlich. Immer wieder"
It´s just as dumb as any sort of stickers that convey your personal opinion.
Most people won´t care, very few will appreciate it but if there´s only one person that really really hates it, you might end up with a keyed car.