Have Windows users ever wanted a single thing they added since XP?

The new terminal for example is a rather neat improvement over the old command prompt, especially with the integration of Linux systems. Winget also is rather nice. Just two examples. So yeah with all the valid criticism Microsoft deserves for quite a bit of policies, I don’t think your hyperbole holds up.

As long as it’s a easily toogled off as the search bar is, I don’t mind.

Them getting rid of the ability to have different windows of the same kind with full title bar next to each other IMHO is a much bigger pain.

No worries, it’s quite an odd behaviour. It was the same back on Reddit. No idea if there is a good reason for it or if they copied it to be the same as with Reddit.

Next time use two line breaks after each line and it will work.

D4 really isn’t that different from current D3. In some areas it’s actually better. But of course both of those suck compared to D2 or PoE.

Oh for sure. But my gmail address is pretty much a burner address for sites I don’t want to provide my regular firstname.lastname@provider.com one. So nothing big to loose there.

This is not a bug. This is by design.

I’d say it’s a bug in the design as it clearly fails to work with a completely fine email.

I like to use the Gmail feature where you can add +randomstring to your email and it still gets to the regular email to sign up to random sites. But this way you can identify and block spam if that email get’s compromised. Technically this Google catch all feature also isn’t following the email standard but at least it’s useful.

Nah, it’s just a old school chat bot following a predefined flow chart. And in this flowchart someone implemented an improper email check.

It’s pretty much the same as if there was just a website with an email field which then complains about a non valid email which in fact is very valid. And this is pretty common, the official email definition isn’t even properly followed by most mail providers (long video but pretty funny and interesting if you’re interested in the topic).

But then… why does this system exist?!

Because it works and makes them money! You can bet that other publishers will take notice and you’ll see such money grabbing schemes becoming more and more common.

While I agree that it’s rather sad for developer not hosting their Wiki, I really never had any problem with the old hoster of the Minecraft Wiki. I certainly didn’t perceive it as a “crappy provider”. It did exactly what it needed to and there weren’t any intrusive adds or at least not to my attention. But maybe I’m just really good at ignoring adds myself.

Edit: Or mabye my add blocker did help, hard to tell since I haven’t seen the internet without it since years now.

I can’t imagine that it is.

If that’s the case then they could simply up the charge next year to $10 to get even more money for doing absolutely nothing. And then to $20 the next year and so forth. There’s no sane court anywhere in the world who would say “Yeah, that sounds reasonable!” and even the less sane ones would think that’s bonkers.

I’m pretty sure that even if the license agreement does have such language that it won’t uphold in court. And there are enough big companies using Unity for this to go to court if they try to come to collect.

I mean seriously, if that would be legally possible, nothing would prevent them from uping the charge to $10, $20 or even $100 per installation, applied retroactively.

Of course? Did anyone expect something else? And frankly they would be extremely stupid if they did anything they didn’t check with their lawyer first.

And LMG would be stupid to say or release anything else on that topic! This is potential lawsuit country, they will walk very carefully and I would be surpised if they didn’t check every public communication with their lawyer first.

I’m not shitting on you, but “we have ducks” has to be the funniest justification why the relationship isn’t abusive I’ve seen yet.

Of course other communities are also talking about that. /r/PCMR for example certainly does. But that doesn’t change the fact that the people talking about it are very few and that they have little influence on the casual gamer in regards to their decision.

I mean look at how fucking hard it is for humanity to solve important issues where a lot more people are on board with. Compared to that, pre-order and the sorry state of gaming is utterly meaningless so of course a lot more people simply won’t care.

But hey go ahead, I wish you the best of luck. I mean this seriously. But you can be sure that I won’t bet any money on that side.

There are a lot more of us then you can fathom.

Where? Here we have 1.2k potential users. The video does have 24k views. For big studios like Bethesda that’s a rounding error! Skyrim for example sold 3.4 million physical copies alone at launch. I wouldn’t be surprised if Starfield already has sold that many pre-orders.

I mean it’s good to have such a discussion, but there are 10’s of millions of people who regularely buy PC/console games. It would be silly to expect that such a huge amount of people could be reached easily by grassroot discussions of a few thousand people.

After all this whole pre-order discussion is by no means new. I’ve seen such for at least 5-10 years but in the end, pre-orders still happen on a gigantic scale.

I miss the age of videogame demos, it feels like nothing but a distant memory now.

No it isn’t! With Steam you can try most (if not every) game for 2h and return it if you didn’t like it.

I don’t have the figures either but when I think which age group could have the money to actually preorder a game on a whim without knowing if it will be good, then it really isn’t kids but working adults.