Port it then, you coward, lol.

Winamp hasn't seen real development in 20 years, and was exclusively a windows app at that time. What're you expecting?

Just don't screw over Sikhs and Punjab like the British did IRL and you have my interest.

Netflix DVD by mail was actually peak.

Netflix streaming is also good, but DVD by mail was awesome to queue up movies and work through an intended set of watch items.

I would go hard for a cheap 5 disc physical Netflix again. $10 a month for 5 disc's at once, awesome.

This. The game had an insanely strong peak but is leveling off. It will peak again with new Factions introduced and if there are big expansions, but there are other games too. My friends went and played some other stuff, and even I have no desire to grind up to level 150 for no reason, and have already finished all the warbonds.

If they're lucky it holds a strong 50k player base over time and they can keep healthy matchmaking and an active community. But drop off is kinda inevitable.

The sales lockout in certain territories is a legal issue. It sucks, but they gotta figure that out now.

Oh yea, but you're already mentally out the door. You take extra cash and you just collect "easy money" while you shop around the resume or get you big moving plans finished up.

They never stopped.

I explicitly avoid trailers for anything I even remotely want to watch for the plot.

Go back with a decent pay bump (obviously he needs them) and with a plan to bolt ASAP. Continue your job search while you collect a higher temporary salary.

Terrible move from Elon as it shows he has no negotiating power.

That's fair. Still might be worth openly discussing that as a goal even if it's nothing you can act on now. Let them show competence on their own perhaps.

Anyways, you sound like you already have the right mentality. Good looking out for your teammates.

To do this without being a helicopter manager, state clearly to them what your goal is. Most employees will work with you if the end result is wfh without a nannycam. Explain you need a way to confirm work product in a way that management can approve of without being too invasive, and keeping on pace with in office work.

In truth, you should not care if they slack off half the day as long as they produce quality work product at a similar rate. Wfh is fewer interruptions and meetings, and means already they will have more "free" time. This is a management principle that is hard to accept, but insisting on the appearance of work is detrimental. Obviously this varies based on the type of work, but yours sounds like a software development situation. "so long as your reports are filed and your queue is cleared every 48 hours, your pace is up to you".

Give them the rope to hang themselves with. Tell them that's what you're doing. Maybe one dev prefers to go easy then crunch for 6 hours on the 2nd of that 2 day cycle, for example.

Ultimately you cannot teach people to be responsible but you get far more positive results from treating people with trust and positivity than with skepticism and monitoring. That makes you less a team and more "the other".

Obviously this advice may not apply in your situation but in general try where you can to apply this in principle.

There are still many difficulties.

This makes playing those ROMs are various platforms and architectures fwr more viable an option, and using far less power and hardware than emulation would require.

You should look up what the word "fraud" means in a legal context.

You would have an incredibly, overwhelmingly difficult tike attempting to prove that in court at this moment.

Fraud requires intentional deception and requires you to have lost something. This is a proactive action to prevent misunderstanding and from you purchasing something that won't work, and refunds your purchase. The loss, and the intent, are both missing.

This is categorically not fraud.

Go on?

I attempted to sell you a car in the UK. I realize I'm unable to and issue a refund.

Fraud exists where?

God the whining in these threads.

Okay, what are the rules and legal requirements to sell into Germany. Well your have to remove swastikas and you cannot depict Nazis positively. Okay good. What about fucking Latvia? Do they have special rules in Loot Boxes? How do they define loot boxes?

Japan is in the banned list!

Oh that's because this exact reason, so there's an entirely different game edition needed just for japan to handle their in game currency differently.

Countries. Have. Different. Laws.

The PSN already has mapped out and navigated their requirements and setup support for the nation's they cover. The other countries are anyone's guess. Do they require that consumers have the ability to speak with a human for refunds? Do they require users be able to exchange a digital code for a physical disc if shipping is paid? Do they require any other conditions we aren't thinking of?

The game was intended to use the PSN to limit the reach. When they suspended the PSN requirement they sold into more places than they were prepared to. Now they are making the best of it.

Hopefully it returns to the store without restrictions. But the Sony legal department now has about 140 countries to review the requirements of for a PC release. Which they've only released on like 3-4 times before.

It is so damning that the entire industry has reacted that way. It's not that they closed a studio, that cod have been ignored. It's how brazenly they closed successful studios for being successful while talking out the other side of their mouth to the press.

It feels gross in a much more palpable way. And with everything else going on in tech it feels so wrong coming from one of the biggest companies in earth.

I'm 100% over Xbox. I hope their next console is the worst release since ET on Atari.

The whole fucking point of the gamepass model is that you subscribe and provide them with a steady income stream between game releases. No big "boom" when a title drops, but also no "bust" when there are no releases.

The fact that MS has blinked and isn't going to stay the course means that gamepass is unsustainable at present, and they don't have the spine to triple down until it is.

I don't want gamepass to succeed, but it's a move thst only a company of MS' size could even attempt. And it requires years and years of patience to pull off. But after the ActiBlizz buyout, investors lost patience and now the 10 year gamble is over.

Disney needs to re-learn the concept of the Disney Vault, and use it.

I don't want any more star wars this decade, thanks. Games, books, sure. But TV and film absolutely not.

Take a break, let the audience build nostalgia and long for it, and sweet Jesus have a fucking plan next time.

Nope, they're doing a trilogy of Rey movies.

How anti-semetic of them. Don't they know you can't do that?

Lol, it's still got hundreds of thousands playing.

Theres some angry outrage for sure, but it don't think it's gonna wind up that bad in the end.

It's annoying, but it's like an Origin account for an EA game or something. At least with crossplay, having one admin team to manage bans on both platforms makes sense to streamline things.

If you're banned on steam for shitting up the game, they don't want you making a new account to shit it up on PSN. And vice versa. Currently you can get banned in game on steam and just pack up and move to PSN.

It means to be an incessant troll you would have to limit your account spam to the PSN side, which requires 2 factor, or make more steam accounts as well.

So halving the troll problem for Arrowhead by not having them chase two separate account systems.

It is likely also so that matchmaking and player counts on the PSN side can be accurate. If there are 300k people playing, but the PSN only reports half of that, it makes the game population seem much smaller for new users.

Honestly i treat it like Origin or EPIC. I don't love having to have it, but the benefits out weight the demerits, and I have the account anyways.

But they own Arrowhead. They already have 100% of the data and telemetry.