Interesting it costs them so much to refer delinquency to the US Treasury yet the IRS can make sure I pay that $112 I didn’t account for because I transposed some numbers on my return. Even to the point of hitting me with delinquency interest and garnishing my paycheck when they’re automated system wouldn’t take my payment. Sigh.
I mean you’re playing the game, aren’t you simply paying in an unconventional way? You can’t pretend to think that you playing a game you paid nothing for is bad for trying to extract something in return?
That being said, games where you pay for the game and still have a ton of microtransactions to actually enjoy most of the content of the game are just highway robbery.
Yeah the most egregious problems with a lot of these microtransaction games are because of parents who just don’t parent at all. I work with a guy who his kid calls him constantly while he’s at work so he can get more robux. And he just gives in no questions asked. If my kids would have done something like that I would have just taken their game away. Even when my children were growing up and they wanted to buy games or spend money on their phones there were ways you could track it and pay attention to it. Lots of parents just don’t care, and that’s probably the most sad aspect of it all.
Dad/Mom shouldn’t be an open bank account and respect should be the currency exchange. My kids had to do chores for the things they wanted to do and they had limitations to what that could go to. Because they don’t need to vegetate on the couch for the entire summer playing a game on their console only to get in trouble and lose it and continue playing on their cell phone. It blows my mind how many kids just basically parent themselves. And i was a latchkey kid! I was parented by respect and love for my parents and the fear of what could happen if I did stupid things. Not fear of punishment but fear of consequences in general. I accidentally shot out a neighbors window with my friends BB gun when my parents were at work. Parents found out and I worked mowing lawns and etc to get up enough money to replace it. Because I broke it, it was my responsibility to fix it. Too often kids don’t have consequences.
Man what a dumb rant. Sorry about that. Sore subject I guess.
Sadly customization and individualization are a huge content driver for most of these games. And regardless of them being “free2play” it all costs money to produce.
Most of your pay 2 play games don’t offer this huge amount of revolving customization. Even when they do offer a large amount of customization it sees an influx of individuality until the majority of the system has been attempted and then it just disappears.
Live service games end up costing loads to maintain simply in server costs so to keep up with a massive player base I can’t imagine the monthly cost that goes along with it. And that’s not even including extra content for the game itself. Itsuwari No Alice opened up about maintenance costs back in August in a bid to stay alive. It’s been eye opening when you consider the niche size of Itsuwari no Alice. https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230803-20472/
I need to try Gentoo again. The installer used to be absolute garbage and required a ton of work to get the a usable system if you deviated too far from a normal computer setup.
I’m not saying he didn’t screw the pooch. I’m just saying the whole world economy took a huge hit which clearly was due to the COVID lockdowns. I’m not saying they weren’t needed and we absolutely should have done everything we did. But to pretend it was all Trump’s fault is showing just as much brain power that he does.
Sounds a lot like blame shifting. I’m not understanding how anyone would expect the Secretary of State to know how each and every county should handle their election. And I also don’t understand how human error on the commissioners end should be blaming the SoS. This just really stinks of blame shifting rather than taking the blame and doing better next time. That’s the whole point of having election commissioners is for them to make it work for the county they’re a part of.
Not to mention your average user is likely to read the error on screen whether they know a log exists at all. This info alone can help software support.
XDA’s article is quite a bit of garbage too. Outside of game compatibility their other reasons are reaching.
Linux has a desktop and can be used as a desktop PC as well and works with a ton of peripherals driver free. That being said Linux has an issue with too many hands in the cookie jar for window managers so you get 2 really bulky fleshed out ones and a whole bunch of others that just don’t hold up without considerable customization by the user which tends to add more bulk and a steep learning curve.
Xbox Gamepass, as great as it is, has a ton of issues with installing/uninstalling software in Windows and the cloud gaming part of Gamepass Ultimate works quite well on the Steam Deck too. Technically you can also dual boot Windows but it’s no at all worth it and has much worse performance.
And then they just kind of silently say that many people don’t know Linux and are familiar with Windows. I feel like anyone coming to Windows 11 from 10 or even 7 might have some idea but they’re going to be just as confused considering the obfuscation Microsoft included in 11. And Steam OS has an easy to use and understand interface that just about anyone can figure out in a few minutes.
I’m just not seeing the huge benefit that XDA claims. Worse performance and battery life, generally a higher cost (Windows licensing), and support is going to be a grab bag for all these Windows based handhelds.
Sigh. This is kind of asinine. The DRM is there to make piracy difficult to access not impossible because we know impossible isn’t really achievable. For Rossmann to not go through Netflix’s T&S and expect an “unsupported” device to accomplish something is just a dumb setup for a video.
Remove the DRM and make it super easy to access and you’ll have Napster all over again. Unless you lived when that was going on then you have no clue the actual things that were happening vs what is said today. In the early 2000’s your average Joe Schmo would have loads of music saved on their computer because it was just easy and “free”. Today you have all these streaming services and a good amount of people choose to go with paid IPTV services instead. So the capability is there, the services are there, and yet piracy is still rampant because it’s accessible. If it were more accessible in a “free” format then more would access it that way. Every comic, knitting, etc. convention I’ve been to lately has someone selling an android media player that offers “free TV for life”. People buy them and use them. Even when the quality is garbage they will still use them because it’s “free”.
Yeah. Lots of restaurants will close and move to states where Unions don’t heavily exist. It sadly means absolutely nothing for the millions upon millions working to make ends meet making nearly nothing. Those people can’t strike because to lose a week of work would have them become homeless.
This is me and Terraria.