As with DD1, DD2 is fun and I don't mean to say it isn't. The MTX just provides a barrier to entry for folks turned off by it, and I wish it wasn't there.
Here's someone corroborating you, but it's impossible to Google at the moment for obvious reasons. I have 0 recollection of any MTX, though. FWIW, it wouldn't be any less bad if they did it before too.
To be clear though, it didn't ruin it. I said it "marred" the game. It is a mark that affects how the game is perceived and I hate that. The game itself is fun, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Hate it hate it. This game is so good, and it's like I'm playing my old favorite again. The fact that they marred my baby with MTX like this is just gross. DD1 should be more popular, and what they did to DD2 may keep it from being the powerhouse it could because people will see the "mixed" ratings and second guess. Or they'll open the store page and see a wall of MTX and get the wrong idea.
But that's just part of it of course. If this works for them, it'll explode. And it will work for them. And everyone will get these fucking MTX in their full priced AAA games. And then once sales on MTX aren't up to snuff -- or if they are up to snuff, but in a few quarters when sales are merely consistent rather than continuing to grow -- they'll start pushing it. Just like they did with Shadow of Mordor where the gameplay gave you a nasty grind and a quick "buy your way past it" option.
I'll never buy the "it doesn't effect you in a single player game" argument. It will, because the market incentives a worse experience for those less willing to buy in.
When Blue users where getting pushed to the top. The vitriol was always bad, but it was altogether too much when you couldn't open the replies to anything without reading the most heinous shit imaginable.
Do you? Genuinely, not trying to snark. I see this point lots, but Im skeptical that people actually do.
As a dev, I read plenty of commits, and the idea of voluntarily prodding through commits on a FOSS project is just not happening. I'd rather just trust the dev, and the community to pick through the code in my place. The obvious issue being, what if everyone also does that.
Did you read the comment? It's not about LEO satellites. It's about a military arsenal destroying a fleet of LEO satellites. The satellites won't do a Kessler, but a fleets worth of shrapnel would be a problem.
Yeah. The "lesser of two evils" used to be about a republican being republican, and a Democrat at least pretending to be left of center. It wasn't genocide or genocide.
And people wonder why younger voters don't engage with the system.
Honestly I'm wondering if that ends up being much different than Biden? It's not like we're doing much right now to stop things. Maybe it takes four years of Biden to wipe out Gaza. Maybe it takes 4 months of Trump. The end result is genocide no matter what I do. At least then the democratic party might understand that you can't play this game of lesser evils forever.
I just want to ask the question, will Biden actually improve things once he isn't worried about burning the good will of voters? Can we only ever vote for genocide, or genocide with an apology tacked on to the end of it?
Want to make a point clear here -- never put anything on your resume that you aren't prepared to answer questions about. That means if you're lying about freelance (whether the above commenter means to imply you should), then you should be ready to answer questions about your freelance lie.
Same goes for any projects. For CS, if you have a pet project you wrote 12 years ago, but it's interesting enough to note on a resume, glance over it enough to know what it's about. You might be surprised by your interviewer installing your app on their phone or something.
Not in public. This is a conversation with the healthcare provider, not with your partner while you're at the grocery store. You have a legally recognized right to privacy (at least in the US) when it comes to your health details.
I can't speak for the original commented, but I'm personally quite tired of the thin veneer that's slapped into these statements. I would prefer a company just be honest and talk about the profit incentives. They want people using the free version to please pay for the expensive one.
For my experience, I still retain the general irritation at product quality going down regardless of how they word it. But now I'm also annoyed that MS isn't being straightforward about it.
They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don't think anyone is saying that windows is not "within their rights", they're saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.
Honestly though I'm struggling to understand why you'd think that's about Microsoft's rights to begin with??
Certainly. There's a big difference between me giving cash and uplifting someone who is actively harming people today, and supporting a dead man's art.
Of course remember there's nuance as well. It doesn't cost me much to stop interacting with JKR's output, but buying quality shoes that don't in some way support sweatshop owners or fast fashion represents a significant time/money investment on my part.
And if there's something important for my health than it goes right out. idk, maybe Dr. Scholl was there on Jan 6 and I was prescribed those Dr. Scholl's foot goobers by a podiatrist, I'm not going to quibble too much.
Which ties in to the privilege of being socially conscious. It costs me nonzero money and energy that some might not have to do all of these things. I cannot blame or fault the person who works at Chick-fil-A paying rent, even if their work supports CFA.
Isn't brave owned by that weird crypto guy? And based on chrome?