Don’t forget to tip the self checkout.

Reposts aren’t a problem. Just because you’ve seen it before doesn’t mean everyone else has also seen it before. Don’t worry about them and just move on.

As far as I know you also can’t just buy the Larian engine. It’s proprietary.

Latest advancements in “things that don’t need to be smart”

Money is unavoidable but you don’t have to do a typical career. Maybe you could try one of those English teaching jobs overseas, or be a nomad doing odd jobs here and there and traveling around. Lots of paths out there, and some might be more care free than a typical 9-5.

Have you considered becoming a student? You might be able to get financial aid. It might not cover 100%, but you’d get to be around young people also discovering themselves.

You definitely didn’t deserve what you got. I hope you can find a path that feels at least a little more like what you want to be doing.

I’m from the US and this also sounds extremely puritanical to me. I don’t know why this OP thinks they’re somehow being liberal about it.

I was convinced there was gonna be a slender man at the edge of the trees or something

Very sad to hear. Cyan is a massive influence on me and I’m always rooting for them. They definitely haven’t had a smooth or easy road over the years though.

Bad policies don’t make it OK, and blaming the victims also doesn’t make it OK.

Good correction, thanks! I didn’t know about that. I suppose the key there are google play points. Do you know if you could do it separately from that?

Not in google play or iOS I don’t think. Someone else may know more, though.

Can you give me an example of one you’ve seen?

The original poster was saying paid currency shouldn’t exist, so I think in that scenario, you could only have vouchers for a whole in-game item. So for example if an item costed $5, then yes you could give away codes to redeem that item.

There’s also an operational overhead to doing it that way compared to in-game currency though, because setting up products in google play/iOS can be kind of a pain compared to adding them to your own systems. Generally the dev wants as much to be under their control as possible because they have more flexibility that way compared to making products in the app stores.

Also worth noting that iOS will block your app if you provide ways to get products (meaning things that cost real money) through ways other than the app store. So that means the dev wouldn’t be able to ever give you something in the game itself if that thing can also be bought. They could only give coupon codes (these are manually generated) for products to use in the app store interface.

I’d be interested to hear an example of one you’ve seen because it might be a way to approach it that I’m not thinking about.

There are many many examples of predatory uses of in game currencies, but here are some big reasons devs use them besides being scummy.

• Giving currency for free: giving people real money isn’t something any dev wants to deal with, so giving in game currency allows this to happen. This also applies to games where you can convert free currency to premium currency.
• Local currencies: currency packages can be set to local prices without having to localize the in-game economy itself. This simplifies development a lot.
• Weak promotion support on distributor platforms: believe it or not, iOS and android have incredibly weak promotion and sale support. By giving in-game currency, it gets around that failing of the platforms because the game can do whatever it wants with the in-game currency.

Transparency is good, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I have no problem with short form video but I don’t know why every video player for them is terrible

Why do the French only eat one egg for breakfast?

Because one egg is un œuf

• this joke courtesy of my college French teacher.

I known I’ll like the game (the franchise is one of my all time favorites), it just had a lot of technical problems on launch so that’s what I’ve been waiting to see improved. Sounds like it might still be kinda rough based on the first part of your comment.

How’s the game state these days? I’ve been waiting to play until it got fixed up.

Maybe if you work as a pot shop buyer

That all sounds awesome. We definitely don’t have that in NW US yet. Hope we get it eventually.

Do they make it easy to put something back if you change your mind?