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What’s wrong with live service games? Soulless AAA games tend to be live service, but so are good games. All of MMO’s are a live service and many are good games (if MMO’s are your thing).

Or they don’t disappear, servers are released or reverse engineered and the community takes over. Yeah, in many cases it doesn’t happen and companies often try to prevent that, but then that’s the shitty thing. The fact the game was live service didn’t prevent preservation in itself or require the developer to make a bad game. It often goes together, yes, but it’s not an inherent property of it.

Elite: Dangerous is all right. Buy once, no subscription or other crap, really cool in VR. Or World of Warcraft (I played it over 10 years ago, so not sure about now), had a really good time, don’t remember any bullshit from the devs.

I see lots of MMOs that become ran by the community on private servers after the developer stops supporting it. It’s crap when companies try to stop that, but the game being a live service isn’t a problem in itself.

Blizzard today just has nothing to do with Blizzard back in the day

Yeah, my point boils down to “nowadays live service games tend to contain lots of antifeatures and bullshit practices”, but the concept of a live service game is not inherently bad.

Same, I just bought a 20m Ethernet cable and some stick-on cable guides and it runs on the ceiling and through doorways. Not visible and no drilling.

Because it’s not. It was just made by people who used to work at Valve.

Might be tricky because airbags are single-use. How do you know that your hack worked? If you test it to confirm you lost the air bag, so you’d have to buy at least two, make sure you did the exact same modification on the second one after confirming it worked on the first, and still be unsure if it’s actually going to go off when it matters.

Just don’t buy it.

And then you can never be sure you connected it back properly or if there was some anti tamper mechanism it tripped. Probably not, but wouldn’t risk my life with it.