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Haha, don’t be silly, Nintendo don’t do sales. They just grift their entire player base. But you know what you are getting into when buying into a closed ecosystem.

Everything is fine :)

Fantastic shots! I only managed a cloudy one and didn’t have a filter for it.

Yup or just don’t use the algorithm, I only ever visit my subscriptions tab and get recommendations for new content from other actual people.

Yeah, same with OSRS, you buy a bond which you can turn into 1 week membership, or trade it other players. Which is honestly fine, it lets people get membership without spending real money, but I’d rather none of the better/fairer systems exist if it means removing the egregious ones. Really we just want to target systems that make you buy a virtual currency to just sell you microtransactions, but how do you write legislation for that? It’s very tricky, which is why it’s probably never going to happen.

We are talking about anything that has real monetary value, if you cannot obtain it through real money, then it’s not in the discussion. Of course it opens a whole new problem, where they could sell “boosts” to earning virtual currency etc. So that would have to be taken into account with the legislation.

Store credit lets them manipulate you. They can say the minimum top up is $5. Then put the cheapest items at $3. Want two $3 items? You have to deposit at least $10! It goes on and on.

No. Just make it so you add items to a cart and purchase their exact value with real money, no in between, no scummy tactics.

(But if it was up to me, I would ban MTX altogether)

They can give items for free instead. Without currency they cant give you 90% of what you need and force you to overpay for extra.

A variable for a value is trivial. It already works perfectly fine in the store!

Sure sales on mobile… (sounds like Apple and Google would get some needed pressure to improve this area) but thats another problem, none of these purchases should be expensive enough to even warrant needing a sale in the first place.

The real reason they want in game currency is not any of these, it’s for the deception factor, avoiding refunds, upselling etc

In-game purchases should display the exact cost in the local currency. In-game currency should be completely banned.

There’s so much good content on there too, don’t forget that.

Just use NewPipe or one of it’s forks.

Yeah, op just had a very rare experience.

It’s why we always need competition in all areas, when you are the market leader, you stagnate. Once something better comes around, it’s already too late.

I thought we were having a bit of a joke, but then you really went and gave me a gift of paragraphs.

I think the creator was keeping the joke running by saying that. The word gift is why people prefer to say gif over jif, it’s how we were taught to pronounce “gif”. The rest of the g words are irrelevant to be honest.

I always thought the G stood for graphics, but now I know it stands for giraffics.

Before, yes. With Trump, probably not.

Looks like a painting! Clouds in the sunset are always so beautiful.

Yes, it is fine as long as they dont advertise “a huge branching story”, when really there’s only a handful of endings. If you dont count random game over screens.

BG3 has a lot of dialogue options, but they rarely change the outcome of the story.

Well, the illusion of choice mostly.

That’s exactly the problem with these reboots of finished franchises. I get that they just want to use the name for marketing, but at least make something new and interesting, instead they just become filled with tropes. We have seen the facehuggers, the xenomorphs, etc loads now, come up with something new and focus on that. Which then brings us to the point that it might as well be a new franchise altogether instead of rehashing old ones.