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  • For something like a gamepass it’s debatable.

    You probably pay more if using a gamepass, but you also try a lot more games.

    If you played as many games without a gamepass as with one, you’d pay a lot more.

    But without a gamepass, you usually restrict yourself to fewer games.

    Whether removing such restriction is worth the (not as significant) additional cost is subjective.

    So there’s an actual case for subscription in cases like this.

    (The reason subscriptions make some sense here is because digital items are artificially limited. With physical items or services subscriptions are almost always a money grab. But with artificially limited things, such as digital items, subscriptions can definitely be reasonable.)


















  • Why not?

    I don’t see why one would prefer having to learn and use a second language, which they’re not as familiar with as with their first language, instead of just using their first language everywhere.

    Having everyone always use the same language would not just ease direct communication, it would also help making (cultural and scientific) assets more accessible, because they wouldn’t need to be translated.

    Most people only watch movies in their first language. If the movie happens to initially be released in a different language, they only get access to that movie at a later time, if ever.

    Same for many other things. Many people post recipes they like online. Often in their first language. People who don’t speak that language will never get to see those recipes. (Unless they use a translation tool to understand the recipe, which most won’t do. Most will just use a recipe written in their first language.)

    This hinders cultural (and scientific) exchange.

    I believe that the culture that is erased by deprecating a language is insignificant when compared to the cultural exchange lost to language barriers.