You get a couple years use out of it - do you really expect the company at the end of it to be like, gee, let me buy the gadget back off you?
I mean, come on....
It'd be super swell if the company decided to just throw money out at people like that, but come on, the sense of entitlement of some people here is nuts.
Look, I bought the Titanfall game. It's multiplayer-only. I knew that when I bought it. Just like the people who bought Revolv 3 or 4 years ago.
If Respawn (makers of Titanfall) decides to shut down the servers tomorrow, sure, I'll be upset, but I'm not exactly going to go on some massive nerd-rage, because I believe they should just keep it running forever.
Do you really think I'm going to turn around and demand a refund, a year later?
I work in tech - so I know how much it costs to keep infrastructure running, and the teams of people that work behind the scenes to keep it all running smoothly.
Surely we're not so disconnected that we know that we engineers get paid a pretty good amount, right?
> do you really expect the company at the end of it to be like, gee, let me buy the gadget back off you?
Yes. If it is cheaper to migrate (or compensate) a handful of existing customers for free than to keep running a legacy service, the company should be making this call.
I mean, come on...
I knew that when I bought it. Just like the people who bought Revolv 3 or 4 years ago.
You don't really know what every person knew that bought Revolv, do you?
I work in tech
Especially since it is your business to know more about this than the average consumer?
You get a couple years use out of it - do you really expect the company at the end of it to be like, gee, let me buy the gadget back off you?
I mean, come on....
It'd be super swell if the company decided to just throw money out at people like that, but come on, the sense of entitlement of some people here is nuts.
Look, I bought the Titanfall game. It's multiplayer-only. I knew that when I bought it. Just like the people who bought Revolv 3 or 4 years ago.
If Respawn (makers of Titanfall) decides to shut down the servers tomorrow, sure, I'll be upset, but I'm not exactly going to go on some massive nerd-rage, because I believe they should just keep it running forever.
Do you really think I'm going to turn around and demand a refund, a year later?
I work in tech - so I know how much it costs to keep infrastructure running, and the teams of people that work behind the scenes to keep it all running smoothly.
Surely we're not so disconnected that we know that we engineers get paid a pretty good amount, right?