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@llamasoft_ox@toot.walesHad a tab open playing with a thing someone had put up, looked interesting, had an occasional poke at it. Went to have another look just now and the options are all inaccessible with a "no entry" cursor, and now you have to "sign in", apparently, to use it.
Somehow it seems to me the way things are promoted has inverted. Used to be you'd provide an example service, then promise more if there was deeper engagement.
Now it's like they'll show you something then make it deliberately worse in order to try to annoy you into engaging.
But of course you don't, because we are just used now to endless enshittification, so you just say "for fuck's sake", sigh, and move on.
Normalising enshittification doesn't drive sales or engagement.
And "thing I recommended that people take a look at" becomes "meh, don't bother".
Irritating people into engaging with your stuff is a shit way of going about things. It doesn't fucking work. Stop it.
@llamasoft_ox I am so sick of needing an account for everything and I do very often go fuck this when I see that shit now.
It's just another vector for hackers to exploit and it's also just not worth the hassle.
It's like the old message board days where you'd find a file you needed and it was locked behind a sign in page and you could only download if you signed up. Just such a waste of time making people sign up for a board they're never going to visit again.
@retrosponge Yeah, and I think everyone is just getting tired of it now. The moment I see "give me your personal details to continue" I just bounce, these days. Got to be some genuine reason for that kind of transaction, and "reading the rest of your clickbait article" or whatever is far below that threshold.
I did shareware, back in the day, and by far the best response I ever got from it was when I gave the entire thing away, no limitations, and asked people to only pay me if they liked it.
@retrosponge maybe that sounds stupidly idealistic now, but the simple fact is that it worked far better for me than any subsequent crippleware attempts ever did.
Maybe people would still respond to nonshittification.
Probably not by now though. We have become so conditioned to thinking that everyone is out to rinse us everyone is in permanent defensive mode.
@llamasoft_ox I think the problem is you and I are getting old now, and there's a generation that's never known the internet to be anything less than the festering pile of shit has become.
@llamasoft_ox @retrosponge I always thought the 3-part releases approach was ingenious. Where a game would effectively be split into 3 with the first released as freeware. Nobody would turn down a free game and if you get to the end of that, you're hooked in and likely to buy the other 2. Not quite the same as just releasing a demo.
PC/console games are probably too big and complex to either split in 3 or make 2 whole additional parts now, but I'm surprised mobile game devs aren't doing this. 
@llamasoft_ox I remember your releases back in the day. I remember playing Psychedelia on a black and white TV 
It's just so dismal now. Everybody wants our information. I mean you go to a website and it pops up that the site and it's 879 partners want this data.
Just fuck off.
Unless it's something that I absolutely critically want, I will not bother signing up for anything anymore.
I'm even loathe to try subscription services unless I'm absolutely certain of how you cancel it.