Thanks, worked for me

Good supplemental reading here to iFixIt’s recent announcement pertaining to their relationship with Samsung moving forward.

I’d never heard of Xlite, that’s great. I can imagine what you mean, current stock Windows is always chugging on some unecessary telemetry in the background. Some days I want to buy an old system to put XP on for the nostalgia.

Yeah compared to rootkits, micro transactions, unfinished games at launch, publisher launchers, seems there’s no shortage of things to whinge about in the current gaming space.

This game has a couple of those things but generally has been the best co-op shooting experience since Left for Dead 2 to me. Helldivers 1 was a blast too though.

I feel like the level of whiplash this game is getting is similar to that of Cyberpunk but I could be exaggerating. If the game wasn’t so successful at checking people’s boxes at the outset, I think we wouldn’t be having this discussion today. It being so popular is why there are a ton of people freaking out. I’m not saying it’s not warranted, just observing.

Needless to say, Sony is never going to allow an account linking grace period in any of their games going forward. It looks like they gave the kids candy and then took it away, better for them to just not give the candy in the first place.

Edit to add: I also find it hard to stomach the amount of ire to some degree because the creative devs had nothing to do with this and clearly put a ton of energy and love into the game. They even have a unique connection to the community through the bespoke game master, Joel. I’m pretty torn about it: I want the gaming industry to stop this full speed charge toward enshittification like, literally, every other aspect of life now. But I don’t want developers to have to not only worry about mass layoffs and internal industry enshittification on top of reactionary blowback from the people they make the games for.

I will say I have the luxury of living in a country that’s supported by PSN and already have an account, so it colors my opinions.

I have like 400 free to own games on my EGS account and the only thing I’ve ever played on it is Fortnite occasionally. I’ll just buy a game on Steam if I want it, rather than checking if I already own in in EGS–it’s that bad.

Haven’t played it yet but between this and Wartales, I’m really liking this period of indie dev creativity.

Almost to 150k now.