Goodeye8

@Goodeye8@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I think they're officially registered as a UK company which means sanctions don't apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there was no Rockstar launcher OP wouldn't be having this issue now would he? I'm not saying Rockstar should magically keep the information correct, I'm saying Rockstar shouldn't need this information in the first place. Their launcher shouldn't exist in the first place. I guess it's impossible for you to imagine a world without useless launchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply repeat: it is OPs job to keep their accounts in order and contact information updated.

  I don't defend 3rd-Party launchers, those are unneeded trash.

  Clearly both of those statements can't be true because the only reason he needs to keep his accounts in order is because the unneeded trash of a third party launcher requires it, so which is it?

  Actually, it doesn't matter. This discussion has already shown that you'd rather be a corporate cuck than stand with the consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But as a veteran support, I have to defend them - they are not responsible for picking up OPs slack that hasn't been cleaned up for years.

  There's nothing wrong with defending the support, doesn't mean you need to blame OP. Support has to deal with this shit because Rockstar sucks.

  Since you seem to share the notion that it's not important if you lose access to an account which active software is bound to, WITH NO OTHER REAL WAY TO PROVE THAT YOU OWN THAT SPECIFIC LICENSE (you can't even be sure from Rockstar's side that the Steam account hasn't been hacked and now the criminal wants to get the GTA credentials, and Rockstar does not have an ID stored to compare OP's to), you will probably learn it too sooner or later.

  Which they wouldn't have to do IF THEY DIDN'T REQUIRE AN ACCOUNT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

  Also do you even realize what you're saying? You're pretty much saying OP shouldn't have bought any of the rockstar games to begin with because (if we exclude Steam) THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY TO PROVE THAT YOU OWN THE LICENSE. When social club rolled around there wasn't even a store there, the only way to buy the game was through a third party store like Steam. That said, they will still verify against licenses bought on Steam but I'll get to that.

  That the support asked him for the original username (that's something they HAVE stored and is bound to the owner, because it was defined at account creation) to confirm his ownership (on a pretty weak basis i might add), is the way Rockstar wants to remedy those situations unbureaucratically. But OP can't give them an straight answer because he has ignored the situation for so long that he can't remember that info anymore.

  And that weak basis can get you nowhere because that happened to me. They asked the same things and when I gave them that information (which, before you start speaking stupid, was correct information) they closed the ticket but didn't return my account. I'm pretty sure they store game keys with the account and then verify using the time of purchase and the key, because that's what they asked the second time around and then I got my account unlocked. AFAIK support did the same thing OP and I think for that support should get shit because why are you asking for useless information when you could ask for useful information?

  The legal office of any Corp worth their salt forbids the (outsourced, but where it's inhouse the rule is the same tbh) support to login into user accounts, because that's one way to be in real trouble if your support takes over user accounts and pulls shady shit with them.

  Now you're talking about a different thing. OP shouldn't have given them their password because support can't use it. That's on OP. But that doesn't invalidate what I've been talking about.

  The Crew name is public information, so it's of no use to them, and sending your password in cleartext per email is either a sign of being mentally unwell or you don't care because you got it from a hack somewhere. If I were the support here, i would suspect someone other than the owner of the account wants to take over the account (no definite answer to my questions and infobombing are social engineering tactics), and go into high alert mode, which happened here.

  And OP here is on attempt 3 trying to fix something they shouldn't have to fix in the first place. I can imagine OP is already frustrated beyond belief. Of course he's going to look unhinged, but maybe he wouldn't be in that situation if support had actually tried to help him the first time around. Or better yet, if he wasn't put in this situation to begin with.

  I get wanting to defend support but support is not to blame (except for the poor procedure where they don't ask the correct information) and OP is not to blame (for forgetting to update an account they most likely haven't directly used for year, because for the longest time once the account was made it would be linked to Steam and it would never show itself). If there's anyone to blame for this hole mess it's Rockstar for putting in the stupid third party launcher in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole situation started because he was forced to make a separate account when he really didn't need one. He wouldn't have to remember any of those things if Rockstar simply let him play their games.

  As for the rest, I guess all I can say is I hope it happens to you because you clearly lack the empathy to understand why this is a problem so they only way for you to understand is by having to go through it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They will say "I'm unable to verify that you own the account" even if you give the correct answers to those questions. I know that because it literally happened to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Edit: I just saw the rest of the messages in your comment.

  I wouldn't have given you back the account either in their shoes. You just claim things that anyone could claim from their point of view, they have procedures they need to follow.

  They can't try your password, or see it anywhere and would never ask you for it either.

  They're asking simple things that you should have been able to verify. After that they'd likely ask for IP addresses and last 4 digits of card used etc.

  They have to do this, or anyone's account could be hacked by social engineering all too easy.

  I honestly don't see how you can turn the blame on him. It's not his fault the support didn't ask for the right things. It's actually part of Rockstar support procedure to ask essentially public information like previous email addresses or previous nicknames. On my first try they asked the same things from me. On my second try they also asked for Steam purchase history and game keys. It's not his fault the support fucked up and didn't ask for the right things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what I meant. If I buy a game on one launcher it shouldn't open another launcher that then launches the game. The other launcher is completely unnecessary but it is mandatory to launch the game, hence mandatory launcher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mandatory launchers can fuck right off. I was lucky enough to get Rockstar support to accept my Steam purchases but even then I had to try twice because the first time they pretty much blew me off.

  I also had a similar issue with Ubisoft. There it was actually easier to restore my old email than get Ubisoft support to cooperate.

  In short, fuck forced launchers and anyone who says "it's just another account". Yeah, it is at the moment but who knows 10 years from now. You'll be locked out of your games because some fuckery happens and support won't do shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you're just having a blind spot for western shows. Breaking Bad, The Expanse, Game of Thrones, Barry, Mad Men and probably a bunch of others that I can't remember off the top of my head where characters act like people with their own personal motivations and moral compasses. Without spoiling anything in one of the before/mentioned shows one of the main characters literally kills their close friend to protect the fact that they're a shitty human being.

  There are also western games that nail the moral gray area. For example New Vegas and Baldurs Gate 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think hiring entry level people who regularly use AI will lead to the outcome he envisions. There have been studies that show AI usage can reduce the capacity to learn.

  I have a personal, obviously anecdotal, experience where in my team we have a fresh from school business analyst who uses AI for literally every task. Their work is full of repeating ideas (because chatGPT loves to repeat itself), obvious logical errors (because AI can't reason), useless diagrams (because AI can't make diagrams, or they don't know how to prompt AI to make useful diagrams) and the fucking point by point breakdowns that make it blatantly clear it's just copy pasted AI response. And they don't learn any vital skills. They don't know how to get business requirements from the business. They don't know how to map out business processes. They don't even know what's written in their actual output of their "work" because they didn't do the work, AI did and they didn't even bother to proofread it.

  I have very little trust in junior employees if they regularly use AI. They use it as a replacement for their work instead of using it as tool in their work. I'm not saying juniors shouldn't be hired. Juniors should be hired and they shouldn't be allowed to use AI. It's just brain rot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discoverability is the industry’s "Achilles’ heel," marketing survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I'm not old enough but I don't remember a time where shareware and freeware were part of a physical distribution channels. Most of my shareware I found on the internet and my knowledge of the Amiga public domain comes from Aminet, which started as a FTP site. I still had to get physical discs for full games, but shareware and abandonware I could easily find on the web.

  As for for many big companies starting as indies. I'm not arguing "indie" didn't exist back then, my point was that it was too expensive for most people to be indie. The fact that we had 10-20 "indie" studios (kinda hard to call them indie when most of the time they also ended up being publishers for other studios) back in the day and now we have thousands of indie studios supports my point that it is easier to be indie today than it was when physical media was dominant. Part of it is because of easier development tools, part of it is easier publishing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discoverability is the industry’s "Achilles’ heel," marketing survey finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take off your rose-tinted glasses. We would be having this issue with physical goods as well because every game would still be competing for the attention of the customer with every other game ever released. The only thing physical goods would do is chop off the legs of the indie scene because it would simply be too costly to put their random ideas on a disc. Vampire survivors wouldn't exist without digital releases, Balatro also probably wouldn't exist. A lot of even weirder indie games wouldn't exist because the cost of physically releasing them would be too much to take these random chances of releasing something weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You're viewing from the perspective of what would be best for the playerbase. These decisions are made based on what's the cheapest possible solution to have the playerbase shut up about cheaters so they wouldn't drive away potential customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Into the kernel" is largely fear mongering.

  Until it actually gets exploited.

  And it's such a weird argument to make that just because some other app uploads your entire documents directory (which to be clear is also not okay) you shouldn't care about being forced into an potential attack vector that can take over your entire computer. Do you also leave your home server unsecured because Google is tracking you through your phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that's a bit farfetched. I don't think any AAA dinosaur feels threatened by Balatro, and if we talk specifically about sports games Balatro is not a threat because that genre has formed its own thick bubble that Balatro could never penetrate.

  The more obvious reason is probably true, lawmakers are simply too stupid to tell the difference between using gambling motiffs and actual gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And what happens to the heat? Heat can't just magically disappear which means water can't cool without heat being able to dissipate somewhere. So it would have to dissipate heat into the dome. What happens to the dome if you keep pumping hot vapor into the dome? It heats up. If it heats up the water vapor stops cooling and the entire cooling system stops working.

  I'm not saying it couldn't work in theory, I'm saying it doesn't work in practice because the dome would have insanely big, maybe the size of small nation big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then as long as you're fine with the poor performance Oblivion remaster is excellent. It's Oblivion (almost) as you remember it, the main difference being the ability to sprint (which doesn't actually change) and fixed attribute points leveling (which I welcome because the original levelling system was stupid where you needed to level minor skills to get +5 bonuses for attributes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In online stores Visa and MC are the big ones. If we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online purchases worldwide. For online stores they are the two players who matter. Losing one is a significant loss of revenue, losing both will kill the store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize that was not the end of the sentence?

  But just for you I added the word games and then moved the structure around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was expecting something where the Chinese IP courts rule in favor of breaking IP laws or at the very least turn a blind eye. This current article doesn't count because there's no resolution here. As for AliExpress, they have an entire process in place to handle IP infringement and they actually ban sellers off the platform if they continue infringing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean decades of behavior of which you so far haven't presented even a single one. Guess what, one example is better than 0 examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Explaining means you actually explain your point instead of throwing out random examples of others doing something similar and then mockingly asking "I wonder why they wouldn't care".

  You also seem to be moving the goal post with every post. You said China doesn't care to engage in IP fad, I showed China absolutely does engage in it. Now you're saying of course they do because they flount the rules themselves. Actually they don't. A few years ago Beijing IP court decided a Chinese artist had to pay around half a million to a Belgian artist for plagiarizing his work. I guess you're about to find another excuse to shift the goal post once again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you should've made that argument instead of arguing that it's justified because centuries ago something was stolen from them.

  But I'm not sure how you got the impression China has no interest in engaging with the IP rights when last year they filed more IPs than anyone else in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

  So what's your issue with people going after China? After all it's fair game because China is also a genocide enabler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know that you can edit your comment before you post? Because if you post and then edit the rest of comment in later others might miss that when replying? Anyway, not that you've actually addressed something in your previous comment I'm going to respond to that. I'm going to ignore what you've said right now because that shit is just too dumb to respond to.

  idk, what are YOU gonna do?

  I already complained to my government.

  are cis people gonna finally fight for trans autonomy or are they gonna act like us having autonomy is too insane?

  The fuck are you on about? I'm not against trans people. We should all have humane levels of rights.

  are you gonna finally listen to us like when trans sex workers told you a decade ago that banks, the police and payment processors are policing our money or are you gonna let the issue fester because you don't want your family to know you stand with trannies and whores?

  Again, the fuck? I'm also pro sex work because sex workers regularly get exploited and I think legalizing and regulation sex work would make their lives safer. Also do you see how insane you act? I disagree with you on one thing and then you automatically assume I also disagree with you on (probably) all the other things. You're turning me into a villain in your own mind, and for what purpose? So you could dehumanize me? You're acting exactly like the conservatives who hate your guts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, the smug "you're not one of us so don't speak" argument... Alright, then we're just not going to have a discussion. Just don't forget that if one of these groups ever use payment providers to suppress trans rights you supported this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this context it's definitely a hot take considering the prudish neighbor was able to make freaky shit "illegal" anyway, and in far greater capacity than any single government could. Rape and incest ain't for me but I take serious offense when they get banned because a handful of people decide for the rest of us how the world is supposed to look like without anyone else getting a say in the matter. At least if they went the legal route the process would've a) been transparent and given an opportunity for others to make a case and b) not instantly affect the entire world.

  This "scary government is going to take away your rights" just leads to private enterprises taking away your rights without any oversight. This entire thing is a case in point. The government can take away your rights but at least you have a way to fight for your rights, what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't say that. I agree that the first one counts and that's an exception to the rule. The second you better bring out point by point examples of how DE does monetization as horribly as EA or Ubisoft because I've heard otherwise. And I think with the third the vast majority of people would agree it doesn't count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Destiny after the Activision split

  And who was the CEO of Bungie during that period? Pete Parsons who had a senior marketing job at Microsoft before joining Bungie. Parsons also had no problem laying off hundreds of people at Bungie while continuing to expand his classic car collection. Dude has big publisher energy all over him. In fact he was the person I was thinking of when I said some people will do it for the money.

  Warframe

  First of all, Warframe is a F2P game which means they need SOME sort of a revenue stream. And from what I've heard Warframe monetization is one the best on the gaming market. It doesn't feel like you have to pay to have good time. And they actually removed an accidental slot machine from their game because they didn't want to incentivize whale behavior.

  Basically the entire mobile market.

  Which is a very different market. Mobile game developers couldn't even ask $20 for their game let along $60-$70. It's not comparable to the traditional computer gaming market.