Sorry, but Nexus Mods is entirely too big to play stupid games and risk getting sued.

I think the Fallout 4 NG update debacle will be a blessing in disguise for this mod. I certainly only heard of it because of the controversy.

Looking forward to the full release. I still have the game installed and backed up, so Ubisoft doesn’t get any ideas and forcibly uninstalls it.

I doubt they’ll stop. Sony realized that having a lot of people on your platform already inflates its value just by itself. With their pivot to PC gaming, it makes sense that they’d be heavy-handed about it. I for one will not join them.

I hope they bill Sony ten times of what they are losing out on now. They need to set a precedent that no other publisher will want to repeat what Sony did.

Good luck to them, and if you own The Crew, you can likely help the Stop Killing Games initiative by following the steps outlined at stopkillinggames.com

Read my statement again:

an offline version would’ve been easily doable, as in, most online feature of The Crew feel optional to begin with.

I never claimed that it was easy in a technical sense, just in a mechanical sense. But to double down on my point, if Ivory Tower had created The Crew with the possibility of ripping out the online mode entirely in mind, then the structure and the mechanics of the game would’ve made it very easy to do so.

For The Crew especially, an offline version would’ve been easily doable, as in, most online feature of The Crew feel optional to begin with. To just drive around the map or race against AI, no online features are required.

Against age verification: Beer brewers say you can’t limit us for making drinking beer too entertaining.

Their rev (revenue) on digital sales, add-on-content, digital-downloads are at all time highs… And yet their margins are at decade-lows. This is just not acceptable

It is unacceptable to not squeeze every last bit of money from everyone!

Same thing for me. Fallout 4 must be the Bethesda game I spent the most time with.

In theory at least, online services would be more safe than a locally decrypted vault. If your computer is compromised, the bad actors can pull your encrypted vault for an unlimited brute force attack. Of course, this can be mitigated by increasing the decryption time. However, if your vault is already decrypted, then bad actors can just pull all your password from your memory.

I, for one, am decrypting my vault once when I start my PC. In theory, if I were to use an online solution, bad actors wouldn’t be able to pull my vault from memory.

Also, release the physical copy assholes… You did it in Japan, why is US consumer getting treated like second class gamer?

Japanese people by and large demand physical media. In the US, developers have figured that they don’t lose a meaningful amount of money by only providing digital downloads. The typical US customer doesn’t care enough.

What you can do to mitigate the error right now is to refresh after using the back button. It will load the correct, previous page.

Peak lemmy algorithm strikes again.

Server admins having to disable the very thing that makes the fediverse the fediverse to shield themselves from liability is by definition bad design.

There are people out there that arent OF ‘creators’ or nefarious people that rely on exposure. The dev that created Stardew Valley all on his own for example. I have spoken with some creators, who will, despite everything, with twitter, simply because Mastodon is too fragmented and the chance to be seen is too low.

I’ve heard the argument that ‘lemmy is not reddit’ a few times and it is aleays used to defend the objectively bad way federation currently works. Server admins have to defedefate, lest their servers automatically pull content the, could be sued for for distributing. That is just bad design, flat out.

That is not a proper solution. Especially when Fediverse applications are becoming mainstream, most users won’t switch instances to access content they currently are unable to. It will just lead to endless support tickets and -threads on why they can’t find what they are looking for. Also, for people that rely on exposure, such a fracturing of the Fediverse is just not worth it. Furthermore, having to restrict access to content in order to cover yourself legally leads to self-imposed censorship worse than even big platforms, like reddit, currently demand.

But how do they integrate Gacha mechanics into that?