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agesboy posted...

actually with gamepass it'd only cost a couple bucks for MK all DLC, at least on PC (zero idea about consoles but it might be the same?). you can sign up with a new account for $1 for 14 days and just keep making new accounts lol

That would require any of us to have an Xbox.

I think maybe one of us does. I know I don't.

Of course, we could all specifically buy Xboxes in order to coordinate that way... but then it would be costing waaay more than $360.

PC's not really an option because literally none of us game on PC, and none of us want to.



agesboy posted...

my view is technology obsoletes itself eventually anyways

a 2015 phone might not feel that different from a 2025 phone but the 2015 one doesn't support 5g (and possibly 4g). technology's shifted

The problem there is that you're right back to the question of whether or not the advances are necessary. My mother was pissed when her phone company told her she had to upgrade to a new phone because they were phasing out 3G, because they were doing so to support 5G features she would literally never use and definitely didn't want, and would require her to adapt to a more complex phone for the sake of it. Literally every aspect of the "upgrade" was negative for her, with absolutely no positives whatsoever.

In this example, it would be one thing if they came out with new phones that were compatible with 5G for people who wanted that but still maintained 3G (or even 2G) networks for people with older phones who were happier with their existing tech. The problem is more forcing people to upgrade to meet current standards while doing away with the old networks to save money/free up resources. Which can be justifiable to some degree when the advances are significant or near-universally popular, but which becomes harder to defend when the improvements are incremental at best or unwanted at worst.

Even now I'm personally only using a 4G flip-phone because it's the simplest I can go. If the alternative was available, I'd probably still be using the same 2G brick cell phone I had in 2000, because it met all of my needs perfectly.

As another example, it's similar to the difference between TV networks upgrading from black-and-white service to color (where black-and-white TVs still existed and could still be used without preventing adoption of newer color models), versus the switch from analog to digital signals where the US government literally had to force people to change and which effectively rendered all existing analog TVs useless (without special adapters). The first change was gradual, and still supported those who had no real desire to switch, whereas the second change was immediate, forced, and generated a lot more negative feedback at the time, even if you can look back on it now and say "TVs are better now that they're all digital HD".

It's exacerbated by things like iPhones updating models every 6 months to a year (on average, give or take), when nearly everyone knows that isn't really necessary. It's being done to exploit brand loyalty and the desire to be "trendy" far more than because most of those upgrades were ever really necessary in any meaningful way. Every generation has just enough minor tweaks to try and justify its existence, but very few of those tweaks were ever really that important or useful.