How many of the mobile games that you specifically mentioned aren’t gatcha games?

Fingers crossed!

Didn’t it already reach the threshold last year and the government (or the civil servant in charge of rejecting every petition) closed it saying that current consumer protection laws already apply?

It also launched a year or two before the ps3 and I feel like it was significantly cheaper. Xbox Live also seemed to be huge despite the cost, probably some network effect in action. I remember Gears of War being another big name they had.

In the uk I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

That was probably one of their most sensible naming decisions

I meant bad luck that you bought a machine with loud fans generally!

Ah, bad luck

I guess they’re trying to make it more integrated and covering every source they can, but something about taking an open source project and turning it into a subscription service to play the games you already bought on the computer you already bought is… not to my taste

Is it the kind you can open up and clean the fans?

That sounds about right. I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

I believe that’s to get the assets (i.e. the textures, character models, etc) which are still covered by copyright and so can’t be included in the decomp projects

Maybe I have had failures and haven’t even noticed!

Yeah I’d definitely agree with not using them for critical backups. I think they’re generally fine as long as they’re never holding your only copy of something, but then I’d probably say that about every kind of drive…

the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high

Out of interest how high is “fairly high”? I don’t think I’ve ever had a USB flash drive fail!

Thanks!

Thanks!