Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn’t implied for any game. They don’t need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.
Hey that game you’ve been playing all this time, them purchases you’ve made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!
Silly question. They haven’t made a game for free.
Live service games exist to extract as much as they can from people through the form of MTX. They should use that money to plan for the eventual shutdown of their game, not then ask people to pay for it. Just make it paid to begin with and scrap the in game purchases.
No. They can’t prey on people with “micro”-transactions and then ask for money to get a game that should have been playable offline anyway. That’s abusing the live service, free-to-play model for as long as it benefits them and then also asking for the price of a game afterwards. Let’s not let them set a precedent here.
Disagree, it should be at no extra cost.
Same, I could map everywhere I have visited more than once (real life or virtually), not just where I have lived!
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The only identifable information you should have to provide is the information you signed up with.
I’ve had a couple sites ask for id, but that wouldnt verify I own the account anymore than just me sending them the email from the same address I used to sign up with.
GDPR has a flaw iirc, where it allows this, I guess the UK version isnt any different.
My original PSP still works fine. It’s an absolute unit.
I wasnt a fan of the 2000, felt cheap in comparison, but was much lighter.
PSPs were great little handhelds!
You can do this in OSRS with a plugin! It shows, quest progess, collected items, achievements made etc
Granted that should all just be a feature of the official game and website, but it’s better than nothing.
Weird Gloop are great, the RuneScape wikis are the best there is. They also host the wikis for Minecraft, Balatro, Vampire Survivors, Warframe, Smite 2 and Hytale.
Omfg! I’m so happy they added co-op I really didnt think they would
The average gamer and consumer will never wise up, especially with social media keeping them stupid.
We know, but the one good thing AI has done is help bring these other issues to light.
However, having no supply of hardware because it’s all been “preordered” is a much larger issue than scalpers.
Some companies have protections against scalping, some dont care, but the biggest issue there is people buying the “scalped” products. They just cant help themselves.
Developers are forming more unions, its picking up pace, so there’s hope there. It’s also partly a customer issue too, buy and support the games made ethically.
I’d say we should just stop buying these games, but it seems people have no standards anymore and will just buy anything marketed to them. Even if its a 30fps obvious cash grab.
They don’t want to do it in a corner where nobody can see, they want to push it on existing projects and attempt to justify it.
Depends if the wallet records data of what site required verification. Any amount of privacy being eroded is bad.
Valve build products they want to use, they just happen to sell them to the rest of us aswell.
It’s not free to play because they are being generous. It’s because it enables the most exposure to the most predatory model.
Would they have made the same amount of money with a paid game? Probably not, most free to play games know they arent interesting enough to sell like that.
Selling the game after the fact is just gross, not them being nice. The trend that needs to start is any online games just being playable offline from the start, or for free in the end.
Or we wait for legislation to hopefully force this, without any extra purchases needed.