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The game could also just not have a battle pass. How are people already so indoctrinated into their existence? No paid games should have extra monetisation in.

No, dismissing because of shitty monetisation is great. It could not be implemented in the first place.

Buying a game without reading reviews is like buying a game with these shitty monetisation schemes.

I refuse to buy co-op games that have the online requirement/live service bullshit. It’s only done to sell you battle passes and shit.

There’s no such thing. It’s just milking people who are crazy enough to fall into the trap of buying them.
$30 is not a microtransaction, thats a macrotransaction, thats an entire other video game.

Free to play doesnt give a game a pass on predatory business tactics, they are free to play for one reason only… to sell you worthless pixels for ridiculous prices. F2P games are designed for that purpose and that purpose only.

But I agree that any paid game should have zero MTX, cosmetic or not. Industry is killing its creative aspect with all this monetisation shit.

Actual good feature from apple.

Its not AR, an AR headset is something like HoloLens, this is just a VR headset with your eyes on the front.

If they are, then this vision pro is truly extortion.

VR requires a bit of setup, which is off putting. I dont have the space to have mine out all the time, theres also a shortage of high quality games. Waiting on Valve to push the envelope again.

Most modern headsets have passthrough, its not some new feature. It is the part that Apple focused on though.

An overpriced VR headset.

It was a tongue in cheek, rhetorical question, regarding what I said before it.

I know, it was a rhetorical question given the stance they take on a lot of things always aligning with what Google wants.

I expected Mozilla to implement this, I don’t know how they expect to get marketshare by just following in Google’s footsteps every step of the way.
Is Firefox it’s own browser or just Chrome with a different engine? Even Apple support jxl, well the decoding anyway.

That explains a lot if this was their plan. RIP Raspberry Pi.

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To be fair, chromium aside, edge did start as a nice browser, but as with all MS products, they end up getting riddled with more and more bullshit over time.

Just use Firefox.

People keep reading their tweets and clicking on the articles.

I agree with you, I hate gambling. It has ruined many lives.

But that doesn’t mean I cannot discuss the shit as it exists.

That shouldn’t be too hard to understand. I won’t engage with this further. Have a good one.

I’m not defending anyone, I’d rather you pay for your game and that is it, how it used to be before the 2010s rolled around. I despise micro/macrotransactions, battle passes, the cosmetic trend, FOMO content, I could rant about it all day and how fucked it is.

I was just picking my best of the worst. I see you don’t understand how CS skins work, so I’ll try to explain.

• Anyone can design a skin for a weapon and put this on the Steam Workshop.
• People then vote on their favourite skins, eventually Valve make a new case and look through skins to add them to the case,
• Everytime a key for that case is bought the creators get a cut.
• Everytime a creators skin is bought/sold between players, they get a cut.
• I can open the case with a key and hope I get a skin I want. Gambling.
• I can buy the exact skin I want directly off the Steam Market… and be done with it
• I can trade other players for an exact skin I want.
• I can sell that skin again on the Steam Market (Valve gets 15% cut, of which some goes to skin creator as prev. mentioned).
• I can trade that skin to friends/other players, for free or for something they own.

So I get a lot more freedom with my new cosmetic item vs another game:

• Skin made in-house.
• Buy skin from store.
• Maybe I can refund if they have the option, if they do it’s usually limited.
  Or
• Buy loot box
• I now have skin I cannot trade, sell or do anything with but use.

So yeah, I think Valve have the best of the worst predatory cosmetic systems out there. That’s not defending the practice, I’d MUCH rather the whole cosmetic trend fucked off along with the microtransactions and online systems in singleplayer games and the list could go on…

(Edit: Lmao at you editing and putting ‘for 50 cent’ in there)

Yeah, the reason why they make so much is because the skins have actual value, they also get 15% on any sale made through their community market. I fucking hate lootboxes, but I also hate skins costing as much as a game. MTX (micro or macro) are always going to be shit, until regulations catch up to all the predatory bullshit we are going to be stuck with one system or another and I’d rather take CS’s.
I mean I made a profit, if I sold up right now.

Not anymore, it used to. Pihole can only block ads that are served from known ad servers. But with the way ads are served on YT, it can’t block them without also blocking the entire video.

My pi hole currently blocks around 10% of all the requests made on my network. So its still worthwhile for cutting down on some ads and tracking.