Man, I hope the lawyers at the Big Three are getting ready to send Christmas cards to Riccitielo cause, uh, he’s pretty much going to be signing their paychecks if he keeps going

Fools and their money.

Yeah, not a developer or otherwise someone who works in the gaming industry at all, but a deal like that would definitely remind me about what mom always said about deals that sound too good to be true.

The higher the pedestal you put somebody on, the further they have to fall.

Mostly because it looks good for the suits and investors, and since it doesn’t actually seem to hurt their sales that much (hint hint)

The point is punishing the people who pay money for this sh*t, apparently (and they will, because for everybody who refuses to buy something that comes with malware bundled in there will be at least two screaming “SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY!”)

To be “fair”, given that for better or worse it’s an Always Online game, it’s easier to just say “NO MODS ALLOWED, END OF STORY” than to deal with the hassle of strictly defining what is and isn’t kosher and dealing with the inevitable rules lawyering from people trying to argue how THEIR MOD is special and doesn’t break the rules.

But yeah, f*ck ActiBliz

I can certainly vouch for it, I’ve clocked just over 420 hours (blaze it) playing off-and-on since 2019, and my only major complaints are:

1. The skill/ability tooltips focus way too much on story fluff and are too vague on what the bleeped thing actually does

2. The story campaign doesn’t entirely play nice with multiplayer, only one player can talk to NPCs and advance/accept/turn in quests