I’m not supporting what you’re condemning. I’m just arguing that it’s not 100% black and white. I disagree with “all live service games bad.” I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.

I couldn’t really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn’t consider it from that angle.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Ban the entire business model.

Is most of what I was referring to. I don’t mind things in games costing money, as long as the game itself doesn’t costs money. I also don’t mind live service games, at least in concept. They’re very rarely good games, but good examples do exist.

A lot of what I think you’re talking about is based on player trading, is it not? Maybe I don’t know the games you’re talking about. I don’t think Valve sets the prices for hats, and I don’t think DE sets prices for rivens. They’re tradeable, so a market forms. To be clear, I think paying $1000 for a hat is absolutely insane, but I also don’t see how it’s functionally different than paying an absurd amount of money for a trading card you have no intention of using.

Are there games actually asking $1000 for literally anything in-game? Not a player set price, to be clear.

I’m fine with it for f2p games. The monetization is sometimes awful in those, but it’s also sometimes perfectly fine. I just want one monetization model. Either have microtransations and ingame purchases(preferably that don’t actually effect the gameplay), or have your game cost money up front, and maybe have some DLCs. Pick one. No more $40 games with battlepasses and buyable skins.

TIL, from that article, that Starbreeze is making a coop D&D game.

That’s neat. I have incredibly low expectations, but maybe it turns out decent.

The issue is that they’re almost certainly going to be cheap, and therefore companies are going to use them even if they’re complete dogshit.

But I think the bigger issue is saying “no ai” and then… using AI.

It definitely does that for Youtube, but I didn’t see the option for Spotify. I last looked at the docs a very long time ago, so its entirely possible it’s got some added functionality since.

Just make sure to use a trusted one, because you’ll most likely have login with your account to access your saved stuff & playlists.

I used SpotDL, personally. Not sure if it even supports logging in, but you can just make your playlists public for a few minutes while you download them. It does require you to do every playlist individually, afaik, there’s not just a ‘my whole account’ option. If you have youtube premium/youtube music you can DL high quality as well, though getting that to work was a bit tricky for me. I don’t generally mess with programs lacking a GUI, though, so it’s probably mostly a me issue.

Do you mean Witcher 3? Might’ve been autocorrected.

Yeah, I just did. Works fine.

I didn’t try actually recording, but I can’t imagine it would be different.

I also found that weird juxtaposition interesting.

Ingame, he’s totally chill and reasonable. Outside the game he’s… a fuckin nazi? Huh?

I don’t know that I’ve ever had jdownloader 2 fail to download a video- maybe give that a go.

There’s a whole ass site for exactly that in the megathread.

Good on them. I’m getting very tired of every game having a battlepass- particularly games you already pay for.