Bronzebeard

I’m not sure what you’re responding to, but it wasn’t anyone I said

It sounds like slime you’re blaming your shitty internet on epic instead of providing an actual argument for why epic isn’t actually an alternative (it is). You want to suck up to a monopoly, just be honest about it.

All retail establishments utilize loss leaders. It’s not some underhanded duplicitous tactic, it’s just a common business strategy

It’s limited time, but also the selection these last few years has felt very uninspired. Everything is extremely derivative and been done to death.

There was a mass consolidation of developers/publishers recently, on top of further extended development cycles that has really limited any kind of variety we might have seen.

Well yeah, fighting for market share against an entrenched monopoly isn’t cheap. That’s not a reason to cheer on the monopoly though.

I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.

No it wasn’t. We were taking about streams monopoly status and epic being one of the few alternatives.

YOU were the one trying to deflect the conversation into business viability. Which your entire side tangent really only reinforces how obscene the monopoly hold off stream is, that trying to break into the market is so expensive.

Some of them are, which is even more confusing.

While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You’re effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers

Digital data is just 1s and 0s.

On and off. If you turn that laser on and off you’re transmitting binary information. The receiver can interpret that. We already do that with fiber optic cable, basically. This is just removing the wire.