I think a lot of the issue is when companies no longer respect their customers and abuse the fact that software is licensed to rip that license away from customers. Valve has the exact same agreement but (most) people don't have an issue with it because they're much better at ensuring you have access to the games you've bought for as long as possible.
I mean you literally sound like you're going through psychosis, you're just making up some convoluted scenario to attack random people online with. You should seek psychiatric help
If you set a fire or otherwise intentionally cause your home to be burned down, then no insurance would not cover that. However in this case it is arson committed against the owner of the property, which is absolutely covered by insurance.
So do you think people would happily pay possibly hundreds of dollars upfront to play an MMO to "account for server costs"? Players have to pay extra no matter what, if the customer isn't paying for the server costs who is? You also have to keep in mind that WoW expansions are massive compared to most OSRS updates and are released on a fairly short schedule, that kind of dev cycle takes a lot of money to maintain.
Yeah that's not how online games work though. Servers cost money, probably way more than you would expect, which is why online games used to use monthly subscriptions until people decided they didn't like that so they moved to free-to-play with micro transactions instead. Guild Wars 2 is a good example of how an MMO can be run without needing a monthly sub by making everyone by each individual expansion, in the beginning you even had to buy the content for each story patch but the newer patch content is free with the expansion afaik. Online games don't have to be predatory with their pricing but they do need to make a lot of money to keep the lights on.
Actually she isn't getting your real name through Steam, it was pulling the name you had for your user profile on your OS afaik. There's several other games that have done something similar, it's not very hard at all for a program to pull that information.
I think a lot of the issue is when companies no longer respect their customers and abuse the fact that software is licensed to rip that license away from customers. Valve has the exact same agreement but (most) people don't have an issue with it because they're much better at ensuring you have access to the games you've bought for as long as possible.
As someone who moves filing cabinets a fair bit for my job, this is actually super common, I see it all the time
Hell, the Dead Kennedys shouldn't even be up there, after Jello left
Idk I quit after God Emperor, too, that kind of felt like the end of things to me. The book after just wasn't interesting anymore
That just means we have to tax him more
I mean you literally sound like you're going through psychosis, you're just making up some convoluted scenario to attack random people online with. You should seek psychiatric help
You sound psychotic
They're literally making new jet set radio and crazy taxi games right now though
No, if the dog that tells lies says "me" that wouldn't be a lie because they're both good boys
The thing that killed it for me is that the touch pads were just terrible as replacements for the dpad and right analog stick
If you set a fire or otherwise intentionally cause your home to be burned down, then no insurance would not cover that. However in this case it is arson committed against the owner of the property, which is absolutely covered by insurance.
No it's not
Yeah but do you think people will pay $350 up front for a video game?
So do you think people would happily pay possibly hundreds of dollars upfront to play an MMO to "account for server costs"? Players have to pay extra no matter what, if the customer isn't paying for the server costs who is? You also have to keep in mind that WoW expansions are massive compared to most OSRS updates and are released on a fairly short schedule, that kind of dev cycle takes a lot of money to maintain.
Yeah nah I support private servers
Yeah that's not how online games work though. Servers cost money, probably way more than you would expect, which is why online games used to use monthly subscriptions until people decided they didn't like that so they moved to free-to-play with micro transactions instead. Guild Wars 2 is a good example of how an MMO can be run without needing a monthly sub by making everyone by each individual expansion, in the beginning you even had to buy the content for each story patch but the newer patch content is free with the expansion afaik. Online games don't have to be predatory with their pricing but they do need to make a lot of money to keep the lights on.
Actually she isn't getting your real name through Steam, it was pulling the name you had for your user profile on your OS afaik. There's several other games that have done something similar, it's not very hard at all for a program to pull that information.
Rogue One is considered by a lot of folks to be the best Star Wars movie tbh