Looks like Arc has learned something since then, and it reduces your odds of matching with them but doesn’t completely remove the possibility. I think I’ll keep blocking people I don’t want to play with. Frankly, it’s not surprising that game developers have learned from the mistakes made before, and there are certainly more nuanced options than forcing people to play with people they don’t want to or having to wait hours to match.

That’s your choice, and I’ve met a couple people like that, but you could have just blocked them and moved on. I’ve also had a rando save my stupid ass twice in one raid because I kind of suck at extraction shooters.

In the end, I’ve had about as many meetings where I was ganked as where people just randomly helped me, and a whole lot more where we both said hi and went on our way.

Likewise. I’ve been ganked a number of times, I just block them and move on. Probably 10 player kills in the last 4 months or less? The aggression ranking in matchmaking really seems to help. I’ve yet to get the achievement for player kills, and I’ve seen an uptick when player kills are linked to feats, but overall most of the people I see are helpful and not trying to loot steal or kill you. I hope the PVP players keep being put in matches with each other and are enjoying themselves somewhere I’m not present.

Well, you can keep going to the restaurant with hair in the food. It’s not a problem with their practices, my standards are just unreasonably high. Whatever you have to tell yourself to justify why you keep eating food with hair in it.

I feel like people who were never gonna buy it no matter what the price tag was just want something to be mad at.

So if no one responds, it’s because they have no rebuttal, but if they do, they’re proving your point. Quite the big brain theory there. My point was that it had nothing to do with the price tag, except that the value proposition isn’t there when they can just stop giving you access whenever it becomes inconvenient for them. Moreover, while I have regrets about buying stuff on the Wii store, I’m not angry at them. So it just sounds like you’re saying I’m not much of a customer for a restaurant that I don’t go to anymore just because I got food poisoning a few times. Must be me and not them. And you sound like you’re defending a shitty company because people say their product isn’t worth buying.

You’re right, because I’ve literally done it before with them and have nothing to show for it. So which of us is the fool?

When I had a Wii, I bought games I had played and wanted to play on the NES when I was younger. Now I have nothing to show for it. Never again. At least with Steam, GOG, or pirating, the power is in my hands to keep those games for as long as I can. Nintendo doesn’t give me that option in any legal manner.

I’m willing to accept the idea of software patents, provided they follow the premise of “novel to an expert in the field”. So if you walk up to a software engineer, ask them how to do something, and they cobble together something that more or less performs the desired task in a similar manner, then the patent is rejected.

I figure 10 or 20 software patents would have made it past this kind of test. Rounded corners on rectangles? No. Gif compression algorithm? No. But maybe there are 10 or 20 truly novel ideas that were patented.

I think what they mean by “community blocklist” is a blocklist maintained by the community which users can have applied to them. This means, rather than everyone having to deal with blocking the trolls individually, only one user has to and the rest get the benefit of that.

The motorbike can be fun, getting big jumps can be awesome, and you can explore caves easier. Other than that, yeah.

And when you say now, it’s been that way since about a year after the game was released.

Probably closer to 20 pounds if they are awarded the full amount, and the general rule seems to be that the lawyers get about 30%, but the overall sentiment of your statement is correct.

I’ve installed games from both Epic and GOG on my steam deck via Lutris, and after it’s installed, it just takes a few clicks to have it visible in non-desktop mode. A little tedious sure, but not terrible.