It’s pirated because it’s not through official channels and has the DRM removed, including the requirement for the 2K launcher.
As for the rest of your question, so long as I’ve understood that mess properly, it’s the buyer’s problem when companies start taking away the games we’ve paid for becauae they’re hiding behind a license despite never disclosing the purchase had an expiry date or conveniently left out what that date is as time of purchase.
Control freaks laying out blank canvases for themselves and taking away your consumer rights one cut at a time. As a legitimate owner of the Mafia games on PC, I can report having a significantly better experience with pirated copies since they don’t require their terrible launcher.
You can’t delete what was already destroyed!
It’s not exactly difficult to have more content than those services when they keep fucking around with exclusivity bullshit.
InZoi looks really good to me though Paralives is looking good too.
And as Frost points out, he’s a massive hypocrite.
You very much missed the point of my comment. After the “professional” response the public got when leaving very justified negative feedback on Starfield, I now don’t trust any comment supporting Gamebryo to not be a Bethesda employee. Nor was I advocating for shifting to Unreal, it was the next person who brought up a different engine which I said I’d prefer since it’s reliable. I don’t really care what engine the next Fallout is made with, for example, so long as it isn’t made in Gamebryo by a bunch of hacks.
Personally, I’d rather have games that “just work” like the ones on UE5. I guess I’m weird that way.
Pretty much. They’ve done it so many times now that it can’t even be considered a bet to expect it at the release of one of their games.
Bugthesda. Bugthesda never changes.
Hi, Bugthesda employee! Poppa Todd forced you to expand the totes-not-publicity to the fediverse, did he?
Just call it what it really is: Gamebryo.
I know. Don’t go forgetting Oblivion now 😉 Luckily, I’m not one of the people stupid enough to buy their defective shovelware anymore.
And here we go again. Who had ‘paid mods’ on their bingo card this time?
Some of us have been saying that for years
There’s just no decency in people these days
Not to mention generally shitty business practices and eve more arbitrary regional locking than you might think. I was living in a non-English speaking country back when I was willing to pay for Netflix and I tried watching an anime only to find I couldn’t get the English dub. I contacted support and their answer was “You don’t live in an English-speaking region so it doesn’t make sense for you to have access to it 🤷🏻♂️”. I stopped paying on the spot.
Tis the new age of sailing the seas, yaaarrrr!
If this doesn’t scream anti-preservation, I don’t know what does.
It’d be a very idiotic move, in my opinion but the push towards contactless payment methods seem to be the way banks and payment services are wanting to push society.