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submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You forgot:

Forced to create an account with a password of arbitrary complexity.
Get sent a code to verify your email.
Have to solve a captcha to put in the code.
Captcha doesn't work.
"Your code is expired, please try again."
Mandatory shitty launcher that defaults to running in the background all the time.
"Severs offline, please try again later."
"You are logged in in too many locations."
"Exclusive: ~~$31.99~~ $29.95 for DLC content that should have been in the base game! Flash Sale! Buy now!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 years later.

Subject: recent security breach

We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our "secure systems" and took them.

5 years later

Subject: compensation for security incident.

Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You forgot *nothing in the store cost less then 39.99$

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Richard Stallman, the prophet of libre software had already warned us about this inevitable future.

1000000042

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not having the right to repair doesn't mean I can't actually repair the thing myself. It just means I can no longer get official support from the maker of the thing if I do. Which isn't an issue if I know how to fix it myself.

What's wild to me is that those stupid fucking warranty void stickers they use to determine if you attempted to repair your shit? Yeah, those are illegal. They have been illegal since before I was born. And yet I don't think I have ever opened up an electronic device that did not have one.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I hate it when my game breaks and have to carry it to a licensed servicing centre for expensive repair 😔

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People forget, you never owned the games you bought, physical cartridge or not. The instruction booklets state that you bought a license. It's the bullshit argument console manufacturers use/used to go after emulation developers.

Having a copy of the game that can't be fucked with by errant updates to the game files or by updates to the device you use to run it is a wonderful thing, but don't lie to yourselves about the legality of ownership. That's been a busted clusterfuck for longer than most users on here have been alive.