Used to buy one every two years or so, either to upgrade or they had failed in some way. Used to spend $1000+ on them too, which is ridiculous looking back with how often they broke.
Had a $2000 phone stop charging and they refused to service it without a huge fee and shipping it oversees. (Asus for anyone wondering. I’ve fully gone off the brand since then. Very overpriced with terrible customer service.)
I was waiting for a call back after a job interview so I went and bought whatever cheap phone I could get and ended up with an oppo. That was in 2019 and it’s still going perfectly fine. Phones haven’t innovated at all since then and with how much they cost I kind of just don’t care to upgrade.
Accurate name there mate.
If they use ai to make their game, it becomes soulless ai slop like the rest of it. The people copying their game aren’t making anything good or even worth playing, and the intent isn’t for it to be good. They’re just making slop to siphon sales away from the original game, while cashing in on someone else’s idea. And in the meantime it clogs up the marketplaces and pushes legitimate games down in the listings so it’s harder to get seen, while also making your game look like part of the slop. Not to mention it’s just straight up ip theft at that point.
I’ve seen the exact same thing play out on every market place. Ai has just made it possible to do it faster, and with games. I made a sticker design and listed it on redbubble. It was pretty popular, sold quite a bit. The instant it started getting rankings, people/bots screen shot the design and uploaded it again themselves. Pushed my listing all the way down by gaming the SEO and the sales dried up.
Same thing on Etsy. Made handmade jewellery. People stole the designs, made cheap imitations in China and sold them for a fraction of the cost, cheaper than I could produce them for because I was using real gold/silver. But in the meantime my legitimate listing was pushing all the way down.