The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThere was beauty in the simplicitylemmy.worldimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1402arrow-down116
arrow-up1386arrow-down1imageThere was beauty in the simplicitylemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoYou 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!
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·9 months ago2 years later. Subject: recent security breach We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our “secure systems” and took them. 5 years later Subject: compensation for security incident. Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.
minus-squareSgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·9 months agoYou forgot *nothing in the store cost less then 39.99$
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·9 months agoNo no no, you buy store credit in multiples of 400 credits but things cost multiples of 700 credits.
minus-squareSgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoJust that, and then you somehow end up with 3 credits that will forever be stuck there because nothing ever cost anything that can make the 3 go away. So you will never have a round number of credits again. How could I forget that.
You forgot:
$31.99$29.95 for DLC content that should have been in the base game! Flash Sale! Buy now!2 years later.
Subject: recent security breach
We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our “secure systems” and took them.
5 years later
Subject: compensation for security incident.
Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.
You forgot *nothing in the store cost less then 39.99$
No no no, you buy store credit in multiples of 400 credits but things cost multiples of 700 credits.
Just that, and then you somehow end up with 3 credits that will forever be stuck there because nothing ever cost anything that can make the 3 go away. So you will never have a round number of credits again.
How could I forget that.