Hardware theft is on the menu today, boys.

And if devs are smart, they won’t return anyway. They’ve tried it once and I’m fairly certain they’d be more than happy to try it again. The gaming market is all about death by a thousand cuts these days.

They didn’t exactly get a warm welcome when they first launched the poorly performing pile of excrement, which they never fixed so it’s honestly a surprise they’ve clung on even this long.

It doesn’t invalidate what they’re doing in a karmic way, no. As for any legal precedent way, I’m genuinely concerned that it’ll very much be a “too little, too late” scenario. Many of us who have come from the school of Jim Fucking Sterling Son, or even those with their eyes open, saw how bad this could get a decade ago. It got bad enough to go to court where companies like EA produced pathetic stand-in excuses about “lootboxes” that manipulate the young, ill and weak-willed into spending insane amounts of money are actually “surprise mechanics” and thus totally different. Some countries were smart enough to put some amount of age limit on such things, others were even smarter and outright banned them but many just let it happen. It has kept happening and the biggest gaming corpos are now more than big enough to hire all of the lawyers in the world collectively and fight any claims off through the sheer force of printing money.

Yes, I’m possibly embellishing a little in that lot but after witnessing the gaming market slip further and further down the sinkhole the way it has with excuses of “it’s only cosmetic”, “it’s optional” and “it’s not required to experience the game”, I have every reason to think we’re not coming back from this.

Oh god, not them. Pick another producer, please. There are plenty out there… Most of them suck but at least most of them aren’t publicly known to be sex abusers.

Context clues would suggest it has something to do with piracy. One way to find out…

Lots of gamers and parents have been going on about this for around a decade. EA was even in court over it. Where the heck have these ‘groups’ been? On an extended vacation with their distant relatives the mole people?

I’m not sure ‘freshness’ is quite the word you’re looking for. Maybe try ‘potency’ on for size.

I’m hearing the word “emulation” floating on the air. That’s already PC + most consoles and even Android. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone out there has done something about emulating iOS but I’ve never taken enough interest to know.

Thinking is but a step on the path to knowing.

Not to my knowledge. They try to subpoena VPNs to give up client logs though. The good ones tell them where to shove it.

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarity.

Oh, was that it? I’d heard someone had hacked the EL Twitter account. That’s even dumber. Thanks for the correction and highlighting how much dumber the fallout was, luckily my misunderstanding didn’t take away from the main point.

In regards to how precedent can fuck over future decisions, could this now cause issues for libraries in the future?

It certainly sounds like it should be more difficult than that (and as far as I, a non-medical professional, know it is) but keep in mind the pharmaceutical industry is worth billions to a select few, and keep in mind back when Eli Lilly’s Twitter was hacked and posted insulin, a substance that costing some people over $1000/month just to live, would be free, their stock dropped 4.37% the next day.

Like I said, I’m no medical anything but like with previous products that have claimed to be medically beneficial, I think it’s worth at least taking a step back and looking at what someone stands to gain by claiming something vital is simple versus what those who claim otherwise stand to lose.

After all, I think we’ve all heard the story of the doctor who, in a fit of desperation, cured his wife’s cancer with bicarbonate of soda and then did so with more of his patients before being sued by Big Pharma.

Same here. I’d love a chance to play as Spider-Gwen

Sony’s still holding the IP for that Spider-Verse game Insomniac was working on… Just sayin’…

A lot of people won’t like the answer but no private individual should ever trust a corporate entity. They aren’t held to the same standards a regular person is so we can only hope that in a bad situation, the company will do the right thing. When there’s a difference between right morally, right for the customer and right for the bottom line is the time to start sweating and hoping.

They’re legitimately interested in selling your data to paying parties.