I can’t understand all the love for DQXI. I’ve tried to play it half a dozen times and got as far as just before the world tree or whatever they call it once but just couldn’t keep going.

For what happened here, Nichiporchik explains that scalpers bought copies on Steam priced cheaper in certain regions. If you release a game on Valve’s store and don’t set the price in each region individually, universal pricing creates discrepancies where this can happen. These were then being sold on less regulated marketplaces.

Regional pricing error caused the game to be much cheaper than it should be in some region. Resellers bought a lot of keys at that incorrect price to sell on shitty key sale storefronts at a profit.

Those keys are invalid by the Steam ToS.

Having sex with animals is illegal and immoral. Having sex with minors is illegal and immoral. Images sexualizing children are generally unwelcome, because that’s fucked up. Images sexualizing animals have somehow become welcome, even though that is also fucked up.

People vocalizing dislike of any thing could be said to be using the same arguments used by racists and homophobes if you replace the actual thing they dislike with “gays” or “blacks.” This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ anything. That’s a lazy excuse to try to make people saying anything you don’t like look bad.

He was framed! The only thing he killed was my certainty of my heterosexuality.

How about the opposite as well? Understand that a lot of people deal with trauma by joking about the topic and that if someone makes a joke you deem to be inappropriate you’re capable of simply ignoring it instead of making it a big deal.

I don’t have some strange love for Steam. It was the dev who decided to do it, and the people need to get a refund through the storefront they chose to use.

Looks like they did update that, which is definitely a step in the right direction. I had an option to email a key about a month ago buying from the website, so I’m not sure if it was a gradual roll out or if it’s different depending on account or connection type.

It doesn’t seem like it can be a universal thing, since the article says the way this happened was a regional pricing error that resellers took advantage of and bought a lot of keys to resell at the incorrect price.

Honestly they should get rid of keys altogether and just make it so if a dev wants to give a copy away they need to manually select the account in the same way.

I’m in my late 40s and have used Steam since it started for thousands of sales including dozens of keys to gift to friends. You are acting like a whiny child, and so will just go to the handy block list.

Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?

Buying keys on Steam to resell them is directly against their policy specifically so that developers feel comfortable putting products on sale. If a key was purchased by a reseller from Steam then they can legally use it, however they can’t resell it. Many do. They’re the one doing something wrong and fucking people over, in order to insert themselves as an unofficial middle man and leech money.

Resellers are shit. Period. It’s like buying something from a guy in an alley and then complaining to the manufacturer when it doesn’t work. Buy through an actual authorized seller. Those exist for a reason.

Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?

Buying keys on Steam to resell them is directly against their policy specifically so that developers feel comfortable putting products on sale. If a key was purchased by a reseller from Steam then they can legally use it, however they can’t resell it. Many do. They’re the one doing something wrong and fucking people over, in order to insert themselves as an unofficial middle man and leech money.

“Oh no, guys we really tried to pass the ‘No More Orphan Crushing Machines!’ bill again but just enough Democrats who were just re-elected and not up for a vote for many years voted the other way to keep it happening again. This is awful. We feel so bad. We can’t believe it’s happened 15 times in a row with different Democrats we still tell you that you should support flipping to vote against it at that last second every time! If you keep voting us and the other Democrats who just voted against this bill in, we promise to keep trying just as hard as we have been!”

Then when Democratic Socialists who want to actually change things instead of selling out to corporations and AIPAC start gaining popularity the establishment Dems declare war on them while remaining mostly silent on the complete insanity the country is going through.

Not really a tough pattern to see.

Yeah, it does. Any time you buy a game you have the choice of buying it for the account you’re logged in as or having a key sent to an email address. Resellers do that second one, many times.

Well, according to their legends their God genocided virtually all life on the planet because after creating humans with free will and independent minds so that they could think and decide what seemed best on their own, they didn’t all decide to spend all their time adoring him and did some things he wasn’t fond of.

Like all abusers he then blamed his surviving victims for making him do that, and promised that if they changed and loved only him and did only the things he approves of and begged for his forgiveness for anything he didn’t like, he would buy them eternal bliss.

Again like all abusers he also said that if they failed to dedicate their lives to doing the things that would make him happy so he treats them well, they’d be forcing him to condemn them to a literal eternity of unimaginable suffering.

Do we really have to ask how so many who proclaim to be Christian do so many terrible things and listen to the “preaching” of clearly hateful men?

You’re right, it must be a cat doing this. I’ve seen many cats using spray foam to vandalize things recently, and the ones that have been kept in bags are especially bad.

You can never see or hear what’s happening right now, only what happened in the past.

It looks nice, but it’s so very small. I think I’d go crazy having to move to another page and completely reset my eyes every two sentences.

My current ebook reader is a 60" TV hooked up to my PC.

I’d be curious to know the split for and against. How many Dems still support a fascist paramilitary?

However many it takes for the vote against it to fail.

It’s not scalping. The keysellers are what fuck over regular consumers. Steam sales used to be known for their crazy discounts, but as soon as keysellers began buying thousands of keys at those sale prices and then reselling them for a profit that pretty much died and now it often takes years for well selling games to get a decent discount.

This has nothing to do with Steam being the only legal store front. It doesn’t matter how many legitimate store fronts there are, if key resellers scum profit for themselves out of a game ever having a sale on any of them then those sales stop happening.

Of course if you buy a product you should own it, but if you buy it from some guy in an alley wearing a trench coat for 20% of the actual price then you don’t get to be surprised when the thing doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter if it’s software or hardware, when you see something being sold for a fraction of the price the actual creator sells it for at a place that isn’t an official store front there’s a reason for that and that reason might be that it’s stolen and effectively worthless. If you don’t buy from the creator or an official seller of their product then you don’t have the right to complain to them. It’s not Nintendo’s fault you bought a stolen Switch 2 of of a social media ad and they bricked it because it was reported stolen by the actual owner.

But I don’t want to play my JRPGs with other people, and also don’t want to buy a little handheld console to play one.

The problem is the digital format. If it was a physical game disc and they put it on a huge sale for a weekend then even scalpers would only be able to get ahold of so many. Resellers can buy thousands of keys at the sale price to resell after the sale ends.

It’s a bit hilarious you’re calling me a capitalist bootlicker while defending whats basically private equity reseller companies that exist only to leech off of others labor, turning them having one time sales into a constant stream of revenue for assholes.

Maybe you got lost, but the ml instance is over that way somewhere.