In about a month from now, we'll be doing a livestream that covers all the content of Early Access for Path of Exile 2, and how you'll be able to gain access.
We won't reveal too much just yet, but we'd like to clarify that just like Fall of Oriath, entry to Early Access will be gained by purchasing one of the new Supporter Packs containing a key. These new Supporter Packs will be revealed during the livestream. Players that meet a threshold of lifetime support in Path of Exile 1 will also be invited to participate in Early Access without needing to purchase a key.
We can't wait to tell you all about Early Access soon!
Additionally the “workaround” that someone provided still uses those connected services <...>
It literally didn't. All it used was API endpoint, which by definition is not proprietary.
“right to repair”
Right to repair is about ownership. If a company can take away features or product you paid for, you don't own it, you rent it.
Older one in English:
Latest one in German:
Next step, US sending their own troops after retaliatory strike and Netanyahu plan to involve US in a region wide war/genocide will be complete.
The only good thing that came out of all of this is that FAA reputation is now in the gutter. And other aviation authorities around the world are now getting more involved in doing their own evaluations, instead of mostly relying on FAA for Boeing planes specifically. It does increase the development timeline of new places significantly, as Boeing is a US company and that create a lot of logistical issues for inspections.
And there are several individual EU countries that are moving to open source software, but so far they are not very keen on actually supporting their development. And sadly, EU is moving away from funding open source via Horizon program. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/
It's an identical playbook they used in Gaza and as before there is no evidence of that. Israel is a terrorist state committing a genocide, but they got US as an accessory with their unconditional support, so it's all good.
They're upset with Epic and their exclusives
facepalm
<...> their shitty storefronts that have extremely limited features by comparison.
Have you used Steam in the early days? It took 5 years before they added basic community features.
Plus we all know the decreased commissions is just their way of attempting to gain market share, as opposed to just making a better product.
A better product means nothing if you have no users. Case in point all the enshitified platforms that still exist to this day.
Steam is far from perfect, but it's also far and away the best option we have.
Only option. That's the ultimate issue, which you prefer to ignore.
This is not new, but it's well sourced and easily digestible for most people. The issue is that Valve has de facto monopoly and when Epic Games (even selfishly) tried to address that issue gamers went for their throat instead of cheering.
There are small storefronts that exist in the background, but they are either indie only like itch.io, Game Jolt or run by a publisher with primarily their catalog like GOG, Origin, Uplay (or whatever it's called now), Battle.net, etc. And even then many of them eventually become available on Steam because that's what gamers ask for. People are too stupid to help themselves, so unless some regulations force a change, we are stuck with this.
<...> managed to exit it first time <...>
That is not possible...
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We know that to be true. After previous Israel's war crimes, in 2009 UN conducted an independent review called "Goldstone report", which proved Gaza's death counting was extremely accurate.
For those not familiar with Fall of Oriath beta see: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1897264
Lifetime support means "purchase of any top-tier pack ($440 or above) or people whose total lifetime purchases combine to $500 or more".