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Originally Posted by TrevorViking
After the Dark Horse Digital fiasco, I’m hesitant to ever buy anything locked to one company’s app, outside of Amazon I guess.
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I've realized that I simply stopped buying things that depend on some other random person's infrastructure, which is what 'cloud' or requiring a specific app always boils down to.
There's so much published for flat out free on the internet, let alone if you count libraries and borrowing from friends, let alone other hobbies and life activities, that I'm totally uninterested in paying for an inferior product. It's not even a principled stance, I just got inconvenienced so often I lost interest.
I used to be a huge book buyer, but over the years I've ended up thinking of books, video games, and fast food burgers as basically the same disposable product. If it's priced right I might take a look, but 'right' means 'for pocket change', or I know I can find something better elsewhere.
I'm sure that would horrify some authors. But when the relevant infrastructure has ended up being part of purchase, the reliability and value of that infrastructure impacts the value of the purchase.