>Download ONE (1) 100 GB video game
>use up my entire month's worth of internet data
>have to spend the entire month with slow throttled internet until I get more data
How come video game developers don't optimize their file sizes anymore?
>Download ONE (1) 100 GB video game. >use up my entire month's worth of internet data
They don't care about your issues
I want to show Nia my one-eyed monster.
>use ONE (1) expired suppository I found in the garbage
>get infections and parasites
>have to wear a diaper for months
How come pharmacies get away with this?
Play AAA trash, get AAA trash problems.
because they operate on the assumption that most people don't have nagger tier internet like yours
they're wrong but it doesn't matter, third worlders shouldn't be allowed to enjoy white man hobbies
>Being a third worlder
This has literally nothing to do with America you homosexual europoor
obsessed
>use up my entire month's worth of internet data
>have to spend the entire month with slow throttled internet until I get more data
What? Isn't that like 2006 stuff? Even in my 3rd world shithole we haven't had that for over a decade.
I was unironically living off of 15gbs of high speed a month until 2022 when my small town in Alabama finally got an internet tower
Spooky. Would think richest country in the world would have a good internet. I'm from Finland ffs and we have pretty good internet.
Geographically your country is also a lot more compact, same for some of your cities, but regardless.
>Finland
>Compact
It is though. Everything in Europe is. You could fit two Finlands into Texas alone.
And it has 6 times less people than texas, goofus.
I’m sure most states do, Alabama is always way behind on shit
Sex with Mika
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How many people live in Texas vs 2 Finlands?
The USA overall has a lower population density than Finland you dingleberries. Not by a huge amount, but definitely lower.
Also, most Finns are fairly tightly clustered in the south of the country, whereas Americans are more spread out. Internet is OK in the megalopolis seaboard regions but it gets really hit-or-miss anywhere rural.
My point is that Finland was a terrible example for comparing European and American utility logistics concerns. (Also most of the population being found along coastal population centers is true of literally all large countries)
Damn smug Fin, I'm going to mating press her
You forget who actually runs things in this shitty country.
Capitalists?
That's anti-semitic.
Only israelites are Capitalists?
That is objectively false.
It still happens in underdeveloped countries such as the United States of America.
I have spectrum which has unlimited data, but it is not quite a stable connection.
Maybe you should move to that OP.
What shit country still has data download caps in 20-fucking-23?
literally murrica, the "richest" country in the world
But remember, guys. Regulations are always bad. Corporations should never be controlled.
Retarded government regulation created this problem by putting all American telecom operations under the Bell Company in the late 1800s, which later became AT&T. It was a national monopoly for over 100 years and when it was finally broken up in the 80s it's regional pieces had a massive head start on smaller competitors so they remain a monopoly in many areas to this day.
And the government cannot step in now because...?
Because it's like trying to drive a nail with a sledgehammer. Whatever "solution" they impose invariably breaks something in the process.
>Outlaw data caps
>Set maximum prices for internet services
Wow, this is going to break everything. Better keep getting fucked in the ass by big corpos instead.
>current companies can no longer handle traffic on current lines
>upgrading lines costs money
>price caps limit profit further
>companies decide it's not worth servicing remote areas at all anymore
>if a smaller company moves in they don't benefit from general economy of scale and would have to apply even higher prices to turn a profit
>price caps forbid this
>instead of shit internet people are left with no internet
this is not hard to foresee
>limited profit from the current customer base means companies must expand
>they are forced to use modern equipment while expanding
>instead of shit internet more people are getting access to better internet
this is not hard to foresee
>Oh shit, our profits have been limited.
>Guess we better upgrade our hardware so we can.. get the same low profits.
Yeah, it will totally go like that.
>"Should we make world a better place?"
>"Nah, I can't profit off of it"
Do you think a business can run on hopes and dreams? Do you think telecom engineers will lay cable for no pay?
Why your first thought was that the workers would take hit instead of the corporation?
American culture
Who do you think pays those workers? If a business makes less money then it has less to spend on paying it's employees. Are commies really this dumb?
Oh my God.
Do you think things can grow forever?
After the upgrade they can go back to the small profit and being neutral.
Why, oh WHY do you defend corpos so much? Do you think they are gonna collapse any moment?
Why you think about CEOs and shareholders wellbeing before the workers who do all the work?
Do you seriously think corpo should first sacrifice workers before one year's profit? Do you defend corporation whenever they fire people?
Not everything is about making profit and chasing growth. Thanks to chasing constant profit we have the MTX shit in vidya.
But hey, that's a good thing right? Just make better grafix and turn vidya into GaaS while firing all the talent and replacing them with SEA sweatshops.
It makes more money afterall.
Do you think EA/Ubisoft/Activision can run on hopes and dreams
Do you have any integrity or morals? You don't need to, and SHOULDN'T mindlessly chase infinite growth. It's not feasible, it's not possible. Profit is fine, but constantly making others suffer so the top of the company can soak up ridiculous amounts of money is just insanity.
This has nothing to do with infinite growth. It's about baseline profitability.
>current companies can no longer handle traffic on current lines
Yes they can
>upgrading lines costs money
They have money more than enough, their profits keep going up every year. You don't need to make more and more profits every single year in your existence wtf.
>price caps limit profit further
And makes services much more stable and fair. Smaller countries have better service with cheaper prices with smaller markets.
How is that possible nagger? You are genuinely simping some multi-billionare corporations and their shareholders with "boo hoo, instead of making 5% more money this year, we only made 2.4%! Help! I'm being oppressed!"
Pathetic, disgusting, and absolutely abhorrent. I will never understand American culture when it comes to simping for corporations.
Stop being a retard and fucking think.
1) Most countries don't have laws against data caps or impose price caps on internet connections.
2) Every country has areas where internet connection is better or worse. Even within the same city this is true.
3) Spreading telecom infrastructure through a smaller country with a higher population density is much easier, cheaper and more profitable than doing it over the vast expanses of the US.
4) I'm not even american, dumbfuck.
If a business model cannot exist without being exploitative, it should not be allowed. If Californian fruit orchards can't be profitable without mexican scab labor, they should not exist. If subscription services cannot make money without making it difficult for customers to unsubscribe, they should not exist. If an internet provider can't exist without data caps, it should not exist.
Uh huh. And when you're left with $10 apples and no internet at all I'm sure you'll keep that attitude.
Less food and internet is exactly what this country could use.
Do corporations tell you that or do you actually have a point on how it would be worse if internet service was nationalized or regulated at least to be anti-monopoly and fair market?
But state-owned companies are always worse! Just look at Ukraine's state-owned railway operator that manages to provide better service than National Rail while being at war... oh wait.
I don't live in burgerland so I have three private companies to choose from where I live and between them I can easily haggle down to a laughably low price. But I live in a big city.
If I lived in the ass end of nowhere I would have 0 cable connections available and would have to pray the mobile internet reception isn't utter dogshit.
The only difference if this was nationalized would be that I can't haggle for a lower price and have to put up with whatever garbage connection the government in it's endless inefficiency managed to cobble together and that's if I live in a big city. In bumfuck nowhere I fucking guarantee the government would not bother setting shit up at all, ever. You would be stuck with DSL era speeds on radio connections at best
>And the government cannot step in now because...?
why would the government willingly step in to break up the monopoly when all the companies are paying their re-election funds
>Unlimited Data on my landline and "Unlimited" On my phone that throttles after 100gb use but is still relatively usable compared to how they used to throttle before.
>Can download all the Vidya and Shit I can hold on my drives
>Nothing I want to pirate at the moment because I already have a huge backlog of purchased shit physical and digital
>see Hitman3 videos
>demo on steam
>over 60gig for a fucking demo
>3rd-world ameripoors
>data caps
KEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK DO AMERIMUTTS REALLY?
MINGE
“AT&T has pocketed $283,780,632 of public money with a promise to expand internet service, yet they refuse to answer the most basic questions of a regulator surrounding the use of these dollars and the actual success of their plans,”
>gubment puts 100 gorillion zillion shekels towards interweb improvements
>still have to live with 100kbps connection and data caps
explain this, americans, NOW!
I think the answer is communism and corrupt politicians. The corporations are not to be blame as they are just doing their best! We must ensure the shareholders get their profits!
This is simply the price to pay for freedom. Freedumb ain't free.
Since WWII, every major corporation in the US has been in the pocket of the US government, which provides them with essentially infinite liquidity in exchange for allowing the government to perform surveillance, security, and policy goals which would otherwise be outside the scope of what the federal government would be allowed to do. This includes, but is not limited to, keeping records of the vast majority of firearms purchases and vehicle purchases, keeping enormous communication records on all citizens (and in the digital era, synthesizing these records into digital fingerprints which can be used to identify an individual from communication alone even without identifying information), forcing banks to modify their lending practices in order to artificially prop up housing prices in order to prevent financial asset correction and move non-white residents into otherwise unaffordable communities, putting back doors into any relevant consumer products including communications devices, computers, and vehicles, coerce private sector companies to adopt "equity" based hiring and promotion policies even at the cost of their own competitive edge, coerce private communications companies to both actively and passively censor political dissent, coerce biomedical development companies into focusing on certain product types while downplaying others, and giving them liability protection to do so (no this isn't just about vaccines, the opioid crisis, for example, was deliberately created by the FDA), modulate food supply availability, and coerce energy companies into investing into hopeless green energy initiatives that only serve as a political rallying point for liberal politicians.
thanks for the explanation anon
haha this sucks man. I think it's almost time for a violent rebellion.
Obviously a ban on data caps would solve this particular problem. In fact I think it's a good idea. But this only happened in the first place because the US government went from busting trusts to buying trusts, and saying "regulation can fix it" as a bandaid solution is usually wrong, and ignoring that the government can, has, and will continue to use its own influence on the public sector in order to create problems for it to "solve" with policies they just needed an excuse to implement.
Is this some poor person joke that I'm too American to understand?
What fucking shithole even has data caps at this point?
Are you using a phone as a wifi hotspot you fucking sperg?
No. But I sometimes do that since it is faster than my home (satellite) internet. I get unlimited data on my phone plan but only 5GB of Hotspot data
Just say yes.
Steal their games as revenge
>Data cap
Do Americans really?
>use up my entire month's worth of internet data
>He has metered internet
>Americans being scammed on internet with limited rates
Bros I work in datacom, you have no idea how fucking scammed you are getting lmfao
I don't understand why they can't implement datacaps ONLY on people who are known data whales, so to speak, the kind of people who download terrabytes of data every month non-stop. If you are abusing or hogging the data like that, it would make sense, but to impose datacaps on EVERYONE from the getgo is unfair.
In places in the US that have datacaps, the overwhelming majority are in the hundreds of GB to TB range, specifically to target people trying to use home internet connections for business operations or large scale piracy. Most providers that include a data cap that could actually affect a normal consumer are the handful of DSL providers left.
Bro the datahogs is a drop in the pond, most people will vastly undershoot any projected cap numbers. For every multi-tb a month chad there is thousands of grannies who will just use sub 5gb. The cables also don't have a fucking cap, they are limited in how much throughput can happen at any given moment, so the real hog is ye average dude who wants to watch Netflix at 6pm when he gets home from work. Even then the capacity generally don't even come CLOSE to being capped. Closest we ever had was during Covid when people were watching too much stuff at the same time.
It's not a capacity problem, once you are digging fiber cables it doesn't really make any sense to put a small cable in there you put something chonky that can handle good throughput. This is all about milking as much cash from the consumers as possible because Americans are brainwashed to think that datacaps is normal, when they really aren't.
>because Americans are brainwashed to think that datacaps is normal,
Data caps were not standard before the obama administration, it's a relatively recent, unpopular, and very regional feature of internet provision in the US. In other words, shut the fuck up, europoor.
Can't hear you over the speed of my 1TB unlimited for €35 a month.