Yeah, I’m fine with it. It still serves to make the overall game world more believable even if most of the planets just have resources to gather and maybe some procedurally generated missions against pirates.

But it also led to the console version being infested with hacked items unfortunately.

The people bitching about it costing a quadrillion billion dollars are chasing a BiS quality that no normal player will ever reach for.

I’m not sure it is meaningfully different in this context. Those are nationalities. It seems disingenuous to more or less imply they don’t count based on their nationalities.

It’s a shame they used a shitty fan to begin with. The Steam Deck seems like a decent first attempt, but I’m likely going to wait on v2.  

I had not heard about any of this until this article.  

For legal reasons or whatever I’m not a pirate, but if I was and the game I pirated did this, I’m not buying anything they make ever again.

Either extreme has always been a disingenuous argument. Not all pirated games are lost sales, but it’s equally absurd to say that none of them would have made the purchase otherwise. 

In most cases you can ask for a refund if you buy and game and didn’t like it.  Though check ahead of time to see what the limitations are (often tied to play time and/or time passed since purchase).

Wow… not sure how I ended up with that auto correct mistake above. I’m not even sure what I was trying to type now. Seems like “just did that last week” would be the obvious choice, but then how does that turn into “their writhing the” with a typo?  

There is still a cheap path. You can let your Game Pass sub lapse. Then redeem a bunch of Live codes. Then wait a day or two and you’ll have the option to convert it all to Game Pass for $15.

So, somehow, it was wrong for consumers to take advantage of sales? And you talk about having 8 years of Plus piled up, but that’s also Sony’s fault. Microsoft has a 3 year cap. Which is the smart way to operate since you don’t run into situations like this. Everything about this situation is Sony’s fault and they…

I disagree with the assertion it was broken because it favored snipers. Neither side had an inherent advantage. Favoring snipers forced a different style of play from other maps and added some tension. Especially when trying to return the flag.  I was more of an Assault player, but when I did play CTF Facing Worlds…

Yes, different writers, but I agree the whiplash between these two takes is massive. One is a single scene that only looks vaguely similar because notes are being thrown around as weapons and the take is basically, “Marvel ripped off a black man!”. Then here we have an entire game that is clearly a Zelda clone and…

The similarities are truly uncanny.

So I can’t get in any dungeons or do raids with a guild and all that. I would be bummed; but it is what it is. It’s not the publishers fault that the particular product they sold me doesn’t work for my lifestyle.

If you pay for 5mbps broadband, and you can’t watch netflix you aren’t “due” that service. You get what you order. In this case people buy a shitty cloud service and get a shitty cloud service. When I think my Happy Meal tastes like plastic with pickles and ketchup, am I due a refund? Silly.

Hey, look at what you just quoted. It is about your own home connection. This article is about a warning that the servers on their end are congested.

So it’s a bad port. Look up reviews, don’t preorder, don’t buy, don’t play. 

yeah, it’s the cloud, it’s how it works. there’s a difference between being scammed and being ignorant.