At a time when games and video game hardware are at their most expensive ever, the act of acquiring games is becoming too easy.
. People struggle to have affordable healthcare, groceries necessary for survival, and decent housing. Still, it has never been easier to get little treats, as companies like Amazon and DoorDash have been successfully pushing to make their employees’ lives miserable just so they can bring you stuff you don’t really need. It’s a great way to trick our minds into forgetting the big shadow-shaped future ahead of us all.
For a long time, video game companies have had a more employee-friendly way of facilitating things by letting you download games right away. But do you know how much cooler life was before that? Before we won the war on “friction” and made life so much more uneventful for everyone?