Enshittification

The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to

for the users' best interest.

Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.

Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"

by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025

Enshittification

The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to

for the users' best interest.

Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.

Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"

by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025