DebatableRaccoon

Of course not, that’d be madness!

I’d throw Spicetify into the ring for desktop. The dev team is always pretty quick to fix breakages and post info on their Discord. Between themes and plugins (including adblock) I can’t recommend it enough.

Clearly you aren’t a real fan…

Only fatal? Jog it off, you’ll be fine!

True though I can’t even begin to understand how marketing justifies its price when a common “fact” that goes around is that the marketing step accounts for 50% of the total game’s budget. Like, how does it cost that much?

The problem is that it’s actually not as expensive to make a triple ehh game as people are led to believe. What’s expensive is overpaying all the greedy executives and their unearned bonuses. More people need to be aware of this.

AI has evolved to know piracy is the answer.

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 😒

ActiBlizzard is a lootbox.

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 🏴‍☠️