Shit I do this as an elder millennial. I only ever have one at a time, and now that paramount and hbo are together, HBO is out of the rotation, while I’ve never been interested in a paramount one.
Millennial here, I do this only if I can’t pirate, and really only if I can get it through a free trial.
Gen X here. You want me to pay $60-70 for a game with Denuvo crap on it, littered with microtransactions, and has shit scores on MetaCritic?
Fuck that bullshit!
Most shows being made are crap. They’re designed to be background noise.
Aside from a few flagship shows that are actually creatively interesting and made to be engaging, there’s no reason to keep a subscription going for the high fructose corn syrup shows they offer.
My wife likes to pretend she does this but only successfully cancels any service after being reminded numerous times lol
My partner likes to pretend he does this but then his family wants in and then they want to watch other shows and then he feels bad cancelling so now we’re paying for everyone’s streaming habits.
Gen X and the only streaming service I pay for is Apple TV (as part of my Apple One family plan), because Severance, Silo, and Foundation are awesome and they have the highest quality:filler ratio of any streaming service. Used to be the best value, too. Now it’s at least close.
And I don’t buy video games at full price. EA wants $60 for the Mass Effect Legendary trilogy (the first three games with all the DLC except one they lost the source code to), but it goes on sale for $6 all the time and that’s what I paid. The first game is the worst of the four, but it sets up the trilogy and a lot of choices from it affect the other two (the fourth doesn’t care about anything you do in the trilogy, but IIRC it asks if you played a guy or a girl and then never references the choice). Oh, I got the fourth one for $4 because I opted for deluxe, the base was $3. Joke’s on me, Deluxe includes online content and the servers were shut down years ago. Still not mad, for $4 I still got like 20-30 hours out of it.
If you like Betheslop games, those go on sale for $10 or less all the time (at least Skyrim and Fallout 4, anything after sucked ass and I don’t think Starfield even goes on sale). The better ones (Oblivion and Fallout 3) go on sale for $5 or less quite often, and that’s with all their DLC.
Mostly I play Xbox 360 games on my Xbox Series X. I still think the graphics were good then, and IMO the games are better. More story, less slop. Oblivion started the DLC craze in 2006 with the Horse Armour, and Mass Effect 3 started the loot crate craze in 2012 (advantage to the Legendary Edition version of ME3, all that shit’s stripped out). Anything before then is going to be a lot better, because it was more about entertaining you and less about fleecing you.
