So Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the entire world. They have a stranglehold on corporate America, power a huge the cloud infrastructure, hold one of the largest sources of telemetry/user data, and are the defacto standard of PC environments worldwide.

Why in the fuck do they need to pivot to ads? I’m genuinely curious. Even if they lost 50% of their entire business they would still be one of the most profitable companies in the world.

Not surprising. Proton seems to be exploiting the niche of “privacy” . I haven’t seen anything to the contrary other than turning over metadata due to court order.

Holy shit former me hahaha

Saved, thanks chief!

That’s slightly…endearing in a really dystopian way

Sick

Valid criticism, level scaling has always been garbage in most cases. I will say the weak gear is honestly the point of the loot grind. You gotta grind out that good gear, and mid level gear with player skill will carry you until monster level 130. Nightmare Dungeon 100 for me seems like a min maxed difficulty, holy smokes it’s unrelenting

The app feels like a double dip. Can’t just buy their products, they want your data to sell too

Oh wow that’s honestly amazing

I’m upvoting you because I can understand why you made this comment, but as I’ve said in my own comment thread Diablo 4 has a legit game in it at least for casual play.

The story is pretty fucking brutal. The music is good. The gameplay is fairly varied and pretty decently thought out. And if you’re a coomer dat Lilussy is pretty great.

Main flaws are the grindy endgame, itemization issues, and always online. Price is also a factor and $70 is a lot for the game. I recommend to my friends to buy it at $50 and below

Pay to win mechanics (not true, predatory cosmetics yeah I’ll give you that), “woke shit” (??? Gruesome murder is woven throughout the story so how is that woke? Oh no there are other skin colors in the game /s) , and a couple of other things I can’t remember.

The game has flaws no doubt. It’s still a solid 8/10, maybe even an 8.5.

I’m glad I got into Cyberpunk 2.0 instead of launch, but the story itself was dope to me. I can handle jank for a good story

I had this happen to me recently. Suggested Diablo 4 as a really fun, if a bit mindless grind, action game. People around started parroting outright fabrications about the game. Look it has flaws but shit if you wanna kill packs of demons to a neat story with great cinematics it’s a fun game

Very clean!

So these noname boxes are good for making a hardware firewall/network?

Never heard of it, thank you for the suggestion I’ll check it out

If they successfully stop Adblocking I’m going all in on Odyssee and Peertube. I’ve been slowly migrating already anyway