One doesn't need to replace the other.:)
The big problem with matchmaking is that in the long run, it kills game. When people start to move on to a new thing, the population that stays because they're attached to the game gets fucked over by matchmaking.
The less people they are, the worse it works. That's when a server browser and the ability to run community server becomes crucial. It will keep a game alive for a decade after its last update.
Whereas if we built a giant highway... with like 10 lanes... that'd be perfectly quiet!
My point is that we shouldn't even entertain the question in the first place. It doesn't matter if it's natural or not. If it was unnatural, it wouldn't make it any less moral or okay.
WOAH! Allies?! ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN JUST VAGUELY TWEETING THEIR SUPPORT FOR ONCE?! Well, I'll be damned.
Ok, so, me being a shithead aside, this is very cool and I'm very thankful. For real. <3
This guy clearly hasn't been paying attention to anything that's happening, did he? The idea that if we paid for the platform, the platform wouldn't have any incentive to glue us to it and to try and make us addicted to it is ridiculous. Of course they would do it. Because they would want to make sure you get that dopamine hit. To make sure you keep paying.
And it would just be like the streaming services wars. Eventually, the user base will stabilize, and then companies won't get the growth they look for, so they will start fucking over their users because that's what always happens. They will introduce tiers, and what used to be just one tiers will become two or three, and one will be ad supported, and basic features will be stripped away from the main tiers.... we know how this goes.
And to me the worst part is, social media, whether we want it or not, has become a very important part of our lives. And for all of it's wrong, it also has some very strong positives, notably helping people find community and express themselves. And you, Andrew, want to paywall all of this, make it accessible by a privileged few... The result would be an internet that's even more white, even more straight, even more cis...
Fuck that. The solution is to not let these spaces in the hands of corporations. These spaces should be owned by the people who live on it. Not some executives asshole trying to squeeze every penny out of them.
The problem is capitalism. Maybe it's time we stop putting band-aids fix on every problem it causes. We've tried to fix it time and time again. Maybe it's time to root out the problem.
It's cute and all but... I really hate that arguement. If it wasn't natural, it wouldn't make it any less moral. We don't need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn't born this way? So what if it's not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?... y'know?
This experience is kind of a rite of passage in growing up, honestly.
I mean, hey, good for them. That being said, I still think EA is smoking some mad cope if they're actually expecting one hundred fucking millions players.
I wish it was bigger, I wish the icons had some text right next to them to make it easier to tap on, and also, if we're going with the expansion style like it is right now instead of a more like bubble menu I guess, I wish there was an option to put the text on the right.
It's not extraordinary but hey, small wins are still wins.