I do not understand how people can be cool with paying what these companies ask for games/music/movies/digital files knowing that at any point the item can just POOF! disappear. Especially when we're talking about non-essentials. What the heck happened to people that they are just willing to go to work and bust their ... behinds just to give that money to a company that ADMITS they aren't selling you the game for $50 (!!!!) and that can also just decide at some point that there are too many choices and delete them. So, you pay some faceless greedy jerk $50 for some intangible object and just trust that they won't get a hair to delete whatever game before you get done playing it. Then one day when you just happen to think about it, you pass out after adding the amount of money you gave away.
As far as I could see from their website, game DISCS aren't even an option. My son is much smarter than this and he's 9!
It's not just games though. But people will get a rude awakening when they log on wherever one day to find they have had their account locked because they got swept up in a huge move by a company to for people to accept their policies by holding those intangible things over their heads. I have never seen the number of people willing to just give up any autonomy over even simple little things as there seems to be today. And when people are okay with this level of control over what they own/borrow and this amount of intrusion into their lives, they shouldn't be surprised when it turns out that they are going to work to support the rich while they can hardly get by.... Oh wait.
2010 HP lost 3 lawsuits related to their practice of screwing customers on ink & printer = $5 MILLION
Then they were sued again over Planned obsolescence in 2017. In 2018 they settled a $1.5 million deal over printer firmware updates that caused fake error messages upon using third party ink cartridges.
Why all the idiocy? I work for the money I spend as does most every other consumer in this country, so it seriously pisses me off that companies get away with stealing it. And that's EXACTLY what they are doing when they try to FORCE me to spend MY money with them on overpriced anything when I can get the same whatever somewhere else. If I purchase a thing and it is in my house, it belongs to me. If a person comes in to my house and throws that item in the floor, they are going to go to jail with a busted nose. But HP can repeatedly try to screw customers and no judge has the presence of mind to tell them "If you DO NOT STOP with the anti-trust like behavior, you will be sorry (followed by whatever it is legally able to do to HP)? If an individual citizen were to pull the BS (in a citizen like manner) that HP and other companies have been caught REPEATEDLY doing, they would go to prison or something, but huge companies are able to skate because they pay people off?
This same sort of issue is popping up in more and more purchase decisions. It is NOT okay for companies to try to screw consumers, but don't depend on consumer protection laws because, ESPECIALLY when anything electronic/digital is involved, they do nothing for you. I just went through it with a site where I had purchased several hundred digital files and suddenly had my account locked and was effectively prevented from accessing hundreds of dollars' worth of purchases.
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I do not understand how people can be cool with paying what these companies ask for games/music/movies/digital files knowing that at any point the item can just POOF! disappear. Especially when we're talking about non-essentials. What the heck happened to people that they are just willing to go to work and bust their ... behinds just to give that money to a company that ADMITS they aren't selling you the game for $50 (!!!!) and that can also just decide at some point that there are too many choices and delete them. So, you pay some faceless greedy jerk $50 for some intangible object and just trust that they won't get a hair to delete whatever game before you get done playing it. Then one day when you just happen to think about it, you pass out after adding the amount of money you gave away. As far as I could see from their website, game DISCS aren't even an option. My son is much smarter than this and he's 9! It's not just games though. But people will get a rude awakening when they log on wherever one day to find they have had their account locked because they got swept up in a huge move by a company to for people to accept their policies by holding those intangible things over their heads. I have never seen the number of people willing to just give up any autonomy over even simple little things as there seems to be today. And when people are okay with this level of control over what they own/borrow and this amount of intrusion into their lives, they shouldn't be surprised when it turns out that they are going to work to support the rich while they can hardly get by.... Oh wait.
Why Not Just Make It Clear?
2010 HP lost 3 lawsuits related to their practice of screwing customers on ink & printer = $5 MILLION Then they were sued again over Planned obsolescence in 2017. In 2018 they settled a $1.5 million deal over printer firmware updates that caused fake error messages upon using third party ink cartridges. Why all the idiocy? I work for the money I spend as does most every other consumer in this country, so it seriously pisses me off that companies get away with stealing it. And that's EXACTLY what they are doing when they try to FORCE me to spend MY money with them on overpriced anything when I can get the same whatever somewhere else. If I purchase a thing and it is in my house, it belongs to me. If a person comes in to my house and throws that item in the floor, they are going to go to jail with a busted nose. But HP can repeatedly try to screw customers and no judge has the presence of mind to tell them "If you DO NOT STOP with the anti-trust like behavior, you will be sorry (followed by whatever it is legally able to do to HP)? If an individual citizen were to pull the BS (in a citizen like manner) that HP and other companies have been caught REPEATEDLY doing, they would go to prison or something, but huge companies are able to skate because they pay people off? This same sort of issue is popping up in more and more purchase decisions. It is NOT okay for companies to try to screw consumers, but don't depend on consumer protection laws because, ESPECIALLY when anything electronic/digital is involved, they do nothing for you. I just went through it with a site where I had purchased several hundred digital files and suddenly had my account locked and was effectively prevented from accessing hundreds of dollars' worth of purchases.