• MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I know you’re getting down voted into oblivion (or at least as much as one can on Lemmy), but you’re 100% correct. For a social media platform dominated by nerds who worship Linux, there are a lot of people here who seemingly don’t understand how networking and servers actually work.

    I feel bad for the people running the instances

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      10 months ago

      For someone so confident, you don’t seem to know how business works. They aren’t charging a subscription to pay for servers exactly, that’s just an excuse. They charge because it’s the most profitable option. They take a cut of game sales, which more than makes up for server costs.

      Game companies have to pay to host the servers for their games and they usually don’t charge a subscription. If they did people would avoid their games. Console developers can because (they think) you don’t have a choice. If the subscription cost them customers, they’d stop doing it.

      Steam has to host the same servers they do. Steam doesn’t have a subscription though. They just take a portion of sales, like console manufacturers also do, to pay for it. If that’s possible, clearly a subscription isn’t required.