You forgot:
- Forced to create an account with a password of arbitrary complexity.
- Get sent a code to verify your email.
- Have to solve a captcha to put in the code.
- Captcha doesn't work.
- "Your code is expired, please try again."
- Mandatory shitty launcher that defaults to running in the background all the time.
- "Severs offline, please try again later."
- "You are logged in in too many locations."
- "Exclusive:
$31.99$29.95 for DLC content that should have been in the base game! Flash Sale! Buy now!
2 years later.
Subject: recent security breach
We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our "secure systems" and took them.
5 years later
Subject: compensation for security incident.
Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.
Richard Stallman, the prophet of libre software had already warned us about this inevitable future.
Yeah I hate it when my game breaks and have to carry it to a licensed servicing centre for expensive repair š
Sorry but there's water damage on this digital live service, we cancelled your account and billed you for the time it took us to do it. By entering our service center you agreed to the terms that we will charge you fer word spoken at a rate of $0.99 per word unless you have our live service subscription as a live service gamepass which gives you rewards points for every $100 spent at our location in the Nevada desert.
At least you have a physical location! When mine breaks I have to resolder my cpu.
Not having the right to repair doesn't mean I can't actually repair the thing myself. It just means I can no longer get official support from the maker of the thing if I do. Which isn't an issue if I know how to fix it myself.
What's wild to me is that those stupid fucking warranty void stickers they use to determine if you attempted to repair your shit? Yeah, those are illegal. They have been illegal since before I was born. And yet I don't think I have ever opened up an electronic device that did not have one.
I had Bose Quiet Comfort 2 earbuds that worked great, but I got them wet (hard seltzer spilled on them). I dried them off, and cleaned them off with 90% isopropyl alcohol, popped the case open, cleaned out the liquid and cleaned off the circuit board with Isopropyl, and let it dry. I knew the buds themselves still worked perfectly because I had used them, the case was the problem.
Since they use pogo pins, there's no way to charge them externally. Also, apparently, each set of buds is linked to only one case, so you can't even buy another case and re-pair them and use that case for charging. I spoke with Bose and their "solution" was to sell me the QC3s for a $30 off discount.
$250 earbuds that are now useless because I can't charge them.
I'm still salty. I bought a quest 1 back when it first was released thinking this is the future. Bought a bunch of games and loved it. 3 years later, the very games I BOUGHT and PLAYED through the meta store are no longer "compatible with my device". How the hell can something I already own and played for hours suddenly not work? I hate it, especially hate FB and all it's garbage trying to force us to buy the latest crap. I now own an expensive paper weight. Bah!
Wow. Iām honestly shocked. My Oculus CV1 still has support. I had been considering the Quest 3 for a while, but the attachment to Meta was my hesitation. I had already decided to go with the Index by this point, but this just further confirms itās the right way to go. Obviously a much more expensive option, but if it means I donāt have a paperweight in a few years, itās worth it in the end.
Valve: "We helped develop the open-source technologies that lets you run ancient abandonware from defunct studios for an obsolete version of a completely different operating system, on a handheld, for free."
Facebook: "You know that game you bought that you were playing just fine like 10 hours ago? Yeah it isn't compatible anymore despite the completely static hardware and software. Only solution I see is buying a shiny new expensive device from us and making a Facebook account, there just isn't any other way."
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Shout out to MOO2 which had instructions on the disk for which files to copy where so you could play it without the disk!
You get automatic patches, DLC support long after release, etc. though.
Like the old model wasn't perfect either.
Just don't buy AAA games that insist on their own launchers, DRM and anti-cheat, etc.
Having fun? When you gave us $80, that gave you access to the shit version of our game which makes you nothing but a lowly boatswain. If you actually wanted the "Full Game" you need to cough up the whole $120, bucko. Also we have a Battle Pass, that lets you speed through it like a Pirate Boss through if you go Premium.
Long Live Piracy!
Games generally shipped in a completed state because you couldnāt release some broken, unfinished garbage and just patch it later. DLC used to be expansions for half the price of the original and included a lot more than just gun skins and keychains.
Someone has clearly forgotten the Video game crash of 1983. Where games weren't shipped in finished states and they just didn't fix it. At least now they can attempt to patch and fix the games.
But old games would sometimes ask me to register the software to get free help and updates or whatever. And I had to click no thanks every time I installed one of those games. I thought it was suuuch a hassle.
If funny now, but if we're honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.
It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click "no thank you" and then see "your installer is starting, progress 0%".
People forget, you never owned the games you bought, physical cartridge or not. The instruction booklets state that you bought a license. It's the bullshit argument console manufacturers use/used to go after emulation developers.
Having a copy of the game that can't be fucked with by errant updates to the game files or by updates to the device you use to run it is a wonderful thing, but don't lie to yourselves about the legality of ownership. That's been a busted clusterfuck for longer than most users on here have been alive.
Scott Ross is a Youtuber who has always been vocal about game publisher making games unplayable by closing their servers. Lately he is gathering information about the legality of this practice worldwide to find the best country/state union to fight it legally because come the end of March the game The Crew will be shut down by Ubisoft but has still a very big active playerbase that might be able to move things forward by contacting consumer rights organisations here in Europe. More Infos in his Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD5iMe0Xj4
Sounds like a Louis Rossmann rant. š
Thing breaks
Have to buy a new one
