Some username squatter stole my gamer tag (which is wholly unique, pronounceable in English but utterly gibberish) on Rockstar’s stupid account system, and RDR2 being a single player game I was already pissed off. Then the settings required a restart of the game to change even the littlest things, like turning on captions, except the settings would never save.
So I got a refund and went to the high seas, got a version of the game that actually works and doesn’t require an unnecessary account login, and I’m playing in 10 minutes.
AAA game publishers don’t even make games anymore, they just sell user data.
The biggest hurdle with getting widespread adoption of any scientific breakthrough is cost. If something is not more profitable than the current way of doing things it will not be adopted. Destroying our planet is pretty damn profitable, so until we exterminate capitalism I don’t see anything changing.
Music publishers have been obsolete for two decades but they’re still around. Don’t need to provide a service when you have enough money to write the laws.