Ok, but giving consumers control of THEIR data shouldn’t be optional. Same way car manufacturers shouldn’t get to decide who gets know about what happens inside YOUR car no matter how proprietary and unrepairable their internal systems get.
I’m a lot less happy about “both ‘options’ existing” when one is literally pushing for practices that should not be.Period.
I don’t care whether you personally care about your game saves. The fact remains that you, or any given person, might, and that those cases shouldn’t be an avenue to extort.
The main reason Nintendo gets away with it is that since you don’t care, and since they are only mistreating a minority of their users, there is no big backlash.
Ok, but giving consumers control of THEIR data shouldn’t be optional. Same way car manufacturers shouldn’t get to decide who gets know about what happens inside YOUR car no matter how proprietary and unrepairable their internal systems get.
I’m a lot less happy about “both ‘options’ existing” when one is literally pushing for practices that should not be. Period.
I don’t care whether you personally care about your game saves. The fact remains that you, or any given person, might, and that those cases shouldn’t be an avenue to extort.
The main reason Nintendo gets away with it is that since you don’t care, and since they are only mistreating a minority of their users, there is no big backlash.