• jBlight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m still salty. I bought a quest 1 back when it first was released thinking this is the future. Bought a bunch of games and loved it. 3 years later, the very games I BOUGHT and PLAYED through the meta store are no longer “compatible with my device”. How the hell can something I already own and played for hours suddenly not work? I hate it, especially hate FB and all it’s garbage trying to force us to buy the latest crap. I now own an expensive paper weight. Bah!

    • otacon239@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Wow. I’m honestly shocked. My Oculus CV1 still has support. I had been considering the Quest 3 for a while, but the attachment to Meta was my hesitation. I had already decided to go with the Index by this point, but this just further confirms it’s the right way to go. Obviously a much more expensive option, but if it means I don’t have a paperweight in a few years, it’s worth it in the end.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    You forgot:

    • Forced to create an account with a password of arbitrary complexity.
    • Get sent a code to verify your email.
    • Have to solve a captcha to put in the code.
    • Captcha doesn’t work.
    • “Your code is expired, please try again.”
    • Mandatory shitty launcher that defaults to running in the background all the time.
    • “Severs offline, please try again later.”
    • “You are logged in in too many locations.”
    • "Exclusive: $31.99 $29.95 for DLC content that should have been in the base game! Flash Sale! Buy now!
  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    People forget, you never owned the games you bought, physical cartridge or not. The instruction booklets state that you bought a license. It’s the bullshit argument console manufacturers use/used to go after emulation developers.

    Having a copy of the game that can’t be fucked with by errant updates to the game files or by updates to the device you use to run it is a wonderful thing, but don’t lie to yourselves about the legality of ownership. That’s been a busted clusterfuck for longer than most users on here have been alive.

    • reMaster17@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Scott Ross is a Youtuber who has always been vocal about game publisher making games unplayable by closing their servers. Lately he is gathering information about the legality of this practice worldwide to find the best country/state union to fight it legally because come the end of March the game The Crew will be shut down by Ubisoft but has still a very big active playerbase that might be able to move things forward by contacting consumer rights organisations here in Europe. More Infos in his Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD5iMe0Xj4