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Yup or just don't use the algorithm, I only ever visit my subscriptions tab and get recommendations for new content from other actual people.

Yeah, same with OSRS, you buy a bond which you can turn into 1 week membership, or trade it other players. Which is honestly fine, it lets people get membership without spending real money, but I'd rather none of the better/fairer systems exist if it means removing the egregious ones. Really we just want to target systems that make you buy a virtual currency to just sell you microtransactions, but how do you write legislation for that? It's very tricky, which is why it's probably never going to happen.

We are talking about anything that has real monetary value, if you cannot obtain it through real money, then it's not in the discussion. Of course it opens a whole new problem, where they could sell "boosts" to earning virtual currency etc. So that would have to be taken into account with the legislation.

Store credit lets them manipulate you. They can say the minimum top up is $5. Then put the cheapest items at $3. Want two $3 items? You have to deposit at least $10! It goes on and on.

No. Just make it so you add items to a cart and purchase their exact value with real money, no in between, no scummy tactics.

(But if it was up to me, I would ban MTX altogether)

They can give items for free instead. Without currency they cant give you 90% of what you need and force you to overpay for extra.

A variable for a value is trivial. It already works perfectly fine in the store!

Sure sales on mobile... (sounds like Apple and Google would get some needed pressure to improve this area) but thats another problem, none of these purchases should be expensive enough to even warrant needing a sale in the first place.

The real reason they want in game currency is not any of these, it's for the deception factor, avoiding refunds, upselling etc

In-game purchases should display the exact cost in the local currency. In-game currency should be completely banned.

There's so much good content on there too, don't forget that.

I had the same experience, I think the simplest way is to just have servers separated like they are now in Discord, and you can join them and chat in them even if you signed up at a different server.

Yeah, this poor kid he drags around probably won't end up with the same outlook as she does.

That's how it is unfortunately. The best way to get people on Matrix would be by communities hosting on Matrix and advertising that actively in their Discord guilds. Providing simple instructions to pick a client and sign up. Show people they can customise how they like etc, that will help, people love shiny things. Once you have people signed up and using the platform, then they can figure out the federation by being exposed to it.

Cool, regardless of what terms she might have broken. She is still a human, they can treat her like one.

Matrix is better in all these regards yes, but Revolt has one major upperhand. Onboarding simplicity. A big reason the fediverse has struggled to gain major traction.

If you have to read documentation to understand how to sign up to something, then that's immediately enough friction to turn users away. Bluesky worked because it was simple sign-up, Mastodon has switched to this too now, offering a button to send people immediately to a signup page on their default server. For major adoption, you have to get people in the door before you explain federation, not the other way around. Sending people to list of servers and clients they can use is bad user experience for the masses.

Revolt will appeal to Discord users more than Matrix, because you download Revolt and sign up to Revolt, there's no extra thought required.

what a disgusting country

It's cool, but the problem is the scale, how is Revolt going to fund the server costs if people ever started migrating from Discord? Just purely donations?

His real value is in SpaceX, unfortunately Tesla falling doesn't hurt him much, he only owns 13% of Tesla, but has 42% in SpaceX with much greater voting power. He could take a golden parachute from Tesla, forget about it and use corruption to funnel US funds into SpaceX.

But one thing it does hurt severely... his ego.

Yup. You can practice for it like any other test. There's no way to score human intelligence, except anyone who talks about having high IQ, then you know they are unintelligent.

They have exploring an IPO for like 4 years now.

If it's free to play, then some cosmetic mtx are fine, thats what I used to think, the problem is how egregious they have become. They are not designed as a way to support a game, they are designed to suck as much money as they can from you. Which is why I disagree with supporting them at all anymore.

Games should be a one-off purchase, with no extra added bullshit.

International law couldnt give a fuck about that. That's like saying Russia could legally invade Ukraine if they have a law saying it's okay.

In a case like SteamOS where it's custom built for the hardware, then yes. As a general set it up yourself situation on a desktop, then no.

(You guys severely underestimate the 'mainstream' gamer)