bariereefwozere

> it feels nearly predatory what a good portion of private and out of state colleges are charging

From an outsiders (AU) perspective, it sounds very depressing for youngsters - massive student loans and then you need to jump on the mortgage treadmill (unless you're lucky).

It almost sounds to the point where individual students could pay for personal tutors with the amount of cash they're spending* (or borrowing then spending). Someone over there must be making bank on this... I guess the banks.

Edit: As in, if you took 100 ComSci students each paying $30k a year (or whatever it is), $3,000,000 should get you some pretty good educators for the year i.e. can the game be taken back from the uni's, and education started afresh with a new organisation?

I can't think of any other action that would make sense.

They sat on, and used, an exploit for years. When they lost control of it, they made sure it disappeared.

No it doesn't make it OK?

They have more exploits no doubt, so I guess we'll see the same thing happen again at some stage.

I'm hoping GoG keeps up it's thing. Having standalone, downloadable installers for games makes me a lot more comfortable than a service which could potentially disappear or change it's terms.

Things like music licenses expiring and having that retroactively applied worry me [1]. Steam strikes me as a bit of a monopoly at this stage, and a 30% cut off all sales seems like money for jam - I'd be a bit less bitter if they offered excellent customer support or I felt they were doing something interesting with all the revenue.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141110/09535529096/hoora...

Edit: I guess there's nothing to stop GoG disappearing either, but at least I have standalone installers if needed.