We aren’t at war with the corpos. But maybe we should be…

They MBA types treat it as something you just do these days. It protects the game from being pirated in those first few critical weeks of sale. Then they remove it as a gesture of goodwill and the anti-denuvo fans come back and buy the game anyway.

It’s like an extra $50 or a few beers for someone to put it together for you.

The hypocrite removes videos and other content at the behest of his other authoritarian buddies. Like in Turkey. If you ask me, safety should’ve just blocked and banned twitter from Australia.

Does fitgirl do any cracking? I thought she was just a repacker.

Also don’t forget living at the whim of the manufacturer with regards to backwards compatibility.

They may not have to maximise profits but the shareholders will question every decision that doesn’t maximise profits so the result is the same. That’s why activist investors that push companies to more ethical behaviour are important.

Australia’s version is a dns block. It only stops people who don’t know how to google or change thier dns.

Because that’s where the most active NCD community is.

The use case is being a buzzword they can use to scam cryptobros and the gullible.

I’d argue that if you never played, then getting one of those packages would actually make you play worse than someone who’s played from the start.

FFXIV.

Not sure about ESO and SWTOR. I know WoW has the token market that technically counts as turning money into power by selling tokens and buying clears.