DebatableRaccoon

I have the exact same history with that site and its… creativity when adding stuff to my household download history that I know for a fact no-one in my household would be downloading. Safe to say it’s extremely unreliable.

Still sounds like more fan-forward writing than what ND thought was a good idea for Part II.

This is why we don’t support games with malware in them.

They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.

The bar was on the floor already but they still felt the need to bring a shovel.

True but I dare say it was quickly followed with an “or else”. We do know about Nintendo’s mafia, after all so only offering the nice hand feels very off.

Nintendo decided it was. Nothing else, to my knowledge.

Well yeah, I don’t respect copyright law at all, but with HL, I genuinely liked the product and only bought after reviews and because I wanted it to be seen as a success so a sequel could get greenlit. I voted with my wallet for the product I want to see more of but I find it it a complicated stance when rubbing up against art vs artist.

What about Hogwarts Legacy? I find the game is in an awfully awkward position. I absolutely do not condone Rowling and have divorced her from the franchise as well as almost everything newer than Deathly Hallows from my beloved IP, also hate WB for being corpo scum, but I really liked the groundwork the game laid down so I’d like to see Avalanche Software get a chance to make another game that fixes what the first got wrong while building on what it got right.

Without demolishing copyright laws, we have to give money to WB and some unknown percentage to the witch to get the game we want and I, personally, think we HP fans deserve a genuinely good Hogwarts simulator along the lines of HL meets Bully. Sadly, I can’t designate my money to only go to Avalanche.

So in short, can we kill Rowling, WB execs and still get a Hogwarts 2 Electric Boogaloo? Because I like that option. Short of it, pick your annoyingly screwed moral box 😒

Can’t say I know either. It’s definitely tongue-in-cheek and I don’t believe ActiBlizzard has managed to make their game fun on purpose for a second. That said, patching out the fun would imply they know what they’re doing when I’m unconvinced they’re good enough at game to purposely make a game tedious.

Must have been an accident. Next patch will get right on fixing that

Genuinely wouldn’t surprise me. Time to hoist the sails and borrow us a house, YAAAR 🏴‍☠️

Oh, I know. Just felt like pointing that amidst all the Dr Evil maniacal laughing, they forgot to consider how stupid the plan is.

So they also wish to stop people being able to find jobs that would enable people to pay for their monopoly, prevent them from access the marketplaces where those same people would have a chance to buy their products? Now who’s hurting potential earnings?

On that link. Scroll down to releases and download the Windows .zip file. If you’re not on Windows, you’re going to be learning to build from source.

Because we have clear evidence that the morons are spoiling ghe market for everyone else. If they hadn’t fallen for the death by a thousand cuts of “it’s only additional content”, “I want to be able to play it on the day of release”, “it’s only cosmetic”, “I don’t care about having a disc”, “I don’t care if I can play something I bought in 5 years”, “you can’t expect a company to run a server in peRPeTuitY”, “it’s only a ToS, it doesn’t mean anything”, “it’s oPTioNal”, “games cost a lot more to make now than they once did”, “it’s fucked now so I’ll come back after they’ve updated it a bit, I don’t need that money now”. They were all lies, all hooks for the idiots that are too dumb to engage their brains for more than a couple of seconds, were never taught how to use money, were never taught how to vote with their wallets nor impulse control, and here we are, not 20 years since the writing was on the wall for those of us who knew how to engage our brains for longer than it takes to click the ‘“buy” now’ button, several serious hits taken to our basic consumer rights, some hanging in the balance, the gaming market on the cusp of imploding and our money devalued by at least 50% if the corpos only stop at Nintendo’s $90 con and, in truth, even less than that since that’s proven to rarely be the actual price of the full game.

So yes, it’s foolish to encourage this behaviour because the morons voted us into oblivion.

Not just kids. That bullshit applies to channels that are entirely adult-oriented and yet we’re still having our content censored as if we were children. I’d love to hear what Orwell himself would say about the present state of the internet.

It’s foolish to reinforce such behaviour.

What a surprise… 🙄 The only way Nintendo has worked hard to ‘mitigate the issue’ and still hasn’t landed on Hall Effect as the answer is if they’re purposefully keeping shit components but want them to be just good enough for them to not get sued.

Which means games are pushing themselves out of the market despite looking to make more money.