A one time payment is still less obnoxious than a subscription. Apparently Polestar used to include that feature along with boosted brakes, and a bunch of other performance features. They decided to break it out at a lower price point, and since it's software only it's available to all owners, not just new car buyers.
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https://www.motortrend.com/news/2023...power-upgrade/
Polestar decided that paid DLC horsepower boost was a better route to take than a subscription service.......
I guess the next step to vehicle ownership is to only be able to buy your desired car from a digital distribution service.....Leave a comment:
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Well they want to make sure you get facebook integration and all the social media stuff integrated into the vehicle system.......so why not.Originally posted by Notbilly View Post
They should show a 10 second ad when you come close to a point of interest in your nav system when you approach it......Leave a comment:
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I guess for a motoring company it makes sense to make one model and allow features to be enabled rather than making multiple different models with different features. Issue i can see happening is that car prices won't come down, they will still sell it for the same price and its going to cost you a lot lot more to get all the featuresLeave a comment:
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I was going to joke about cars themselves being a subscription service but i realized they already do that.......Leave a comment:
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well, it's easy (as usual) : vote with your wallet! And (as usual) no one will do it, instead they'll keep on buying their cars and nothing will change. What a surprise!Leave a comment:
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Wasn't there a similar story about Toyota turning remote start into a subscription service? The young aren't enamored with cars to begin with, way to go turning them off even more. Also why isn't this in the motoring section?Leave a comment:
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Only subs. No DLC, no buy!
Imagine new ads saying, fully cracked EQS on sale…Leave a comment:
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Mercedes turns improved car acceleration into a subscription
Mercedes is taking on the hellish tactics pioneered here in the videogames industry by offering owners of their Mercedes-EQ electric vehicle line the "opportunity" to pay a huge yearly fee in order to make their car go from 0 to 60MPH faster. You can get this on either the EQS or EQE cars, where it'll provide something like a 0.8 to 1.0 second increase in the acceleration from 0 to 60.
As reported by The Drive(opens in new tab), Mercedes is asking(opens in new tab) $1,200 a year to "Accelerate more powerfully: increase the torque and maximum output of your Mercedes-EQ."
To be clear, this is unacceptable and absurd in the extreme. It's something I'd expect out of a parody of corporate greed. This is charging for a software update that more optimally tweaks the car's torque by fine-tuning the electric motor. It's not some expensive, expansive cloud-computing service that needs moment to moment calculations delivered to the vehicle. It's artificially limiting the power of a machine someone paid for unless they pay a subscription.
Mercedes' cash grab comes after controversy earlier this year when BMW wanted people to pay to use(opens in new tab) the heated seats in their vehicles. A physical feature of their car. A piece of simple physical equipment. People responded to this by pirating their heated seats.(opens in new tab)
Both of these are madness-inducing, and I hope that these sociopathic "innovations" don't make their way back to PC gaming. Imagine how excited Nvidia or AMD would be to sell you a service that makes your graphics card "go faster"? How thrilled would Intel be to run a subscription that "unlocks two cores!!" on your CPU? Wait, this kind of already happens(opens in new tab)?
Frankly, I'm upset just thinking about it.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mercedes-wa..._ma67Ij17N32R9
This is the way of the future folks, have to pay to fully unlock your car now.
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