People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

A 5% refund?

That’s almost more disrespectful than nothing.

It’s not the ratio.

Gamepass’s entire library of “not dogshit”, cumulatively, isn’t worth a year of the subscription to actually own. They don’t publish a meaningful number of games worth playing if they were free, and you can count the indie games (which are cheap to actually own anyways) that are actually good on your hands.

every single new game

Their catalogue is dogshit and has a very small selection of games that are even worth considering on a steep discount.

It’s an incredibly far cry from the “all” he mentioned, and it isn’t close to the best or most desirable.

I’m well aware of what it has available, and it’s genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.

You can’t.

Age verification is not compatible with any remotely acceptable version of the internet. It’s an obscene privacy violation in all cases by definition.

Any implementation short of a webcam watching you while you use the site is less than trivial to bypass with someone else’s ID while opening numerous massive tracking/security holes for no reason.

That means stuff they publish. Which, despite all their acquisitions, is consistently very mediocre. And because of the day one “free” status, almost always has bad extra monetization on top of it.

But you don’t get every single new game with GamePass, either. You get a mediocre set of stuff published by Microsoft with some occasional AA games and a random selection of indies, some of which are actually good, but also aren’t that expensive to just buy and own instead.

Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.

So it’s probably my bad.

That’s literally my point.

Most people know that email isn’t tied to a provider app.

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

It’s also not even close to how email works and plenty of people use email apps that aren’t tied to a provider.

A lower bar to win a civil case doesn’t entitle you to a fishing expedition. Courts have (correctly) thrown out bullshit subpoenas of people actively admitting to infringing activity, with the plaintiff promising not to pursue the infringers themselves, as part of a suit against the ISPs.

Online posts aren’t grounds to compel information except in very specific circumstances.

I’m not talking about downloading.

You can say that you distribute content all you want. It is not actionable unless they can directly connect you to actual evidence of actual distribution. Forum bullshitting is not evidence.

It’s a virtual certainty, because you control the information.

The lack of imports has nothing to do with the new places not wanting it and everything to do with the old place holding your data hostage. Having a clean, formally defined source of your data is all it takes to make building an import from a popular network trivial.

You’re ignoring transaction costs.

Also $15/month is batshit insane.

Yes, your content. That’s the only thing anyone ever claimed you keep and the only part that would make any sense to have value. It makes it incredibly simple to make that history available elsewhere, and it’s incredibly likely that a future platform that emerges will facilitate that process, just like all the book platforms let you import from goodreads.

If the format is clearly defined, that’s literally all that matters for data to be useful. In the event they shut down, it only takes a single solo developer to make it trivial to browse your content.

Physical data is difficult to preserve. Digital in open, clearly defined formats is not.

The data absolutely is valuable.

Having your content means having your content.

No, there isn’t. Admission is unconditionally not grounds to gain information.

The literally only way there’s any grounds to give them a single bit of information is in response to a direct, clear, action facilitating distribution of specific content Nintendo owns. They could provide direct evidence that they have pirated every piece of content Nintendo has ever made and it would not be excusable for Nintendo to even ask for their information.