@TechTangents I too think selling an #unplayable #game should be penalized as "commercial #fraud" because it essentially is...
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A 1-year-old PS5, PS4 game is scheduled to be delisted and taken offline, its publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced. #Unplayable https://gamesense.co/game/unplayable/news/discuss/2024-ps5-ps4-game-going-offline-will-become-unplayable/
2024 PS5, PS4 Game Going Offline, Will Become Unpl: Unplayable : Gamesense.co

A 1-year-old PS5, PS4 game is scheduled to be delisted and taken offline, its publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced.

→ If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering #multiplayer games #unplayable has a chance to become law in #Europe
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/if-1-million-people-sign-a-petition-a-ban-on-rendering-multiplayer-games-unplayable-has-a-chance-to-become-law-in-europe/

“There are two #tragedies when games go dark. First off, the work of all those #programmers, #artists, #writers, #animators, #modelers, and everyone else who labored on a game, maybe for years, is gone forever. Killing a #game is also anti-consumer because, y'know… people bought that game.”
https://www.stopkillinggames.com

If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe

A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers "killing games."

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#ohmytaxes what happened what happened??

Did #AlbionAsia / #AlbionEast stop having #HellLag? Did it?

Yes, yes! It did, for one little moment right now have a bit less of that crazy lag that made the server #Unplayable...now it's decently playable!

#Brecilien #BrecilienAccepted

Just got accepted at #MistUniversity!

#AlbionEast / #AlbionAsia
"Reconnecting" LOL, I didn't even do anything!

#WindrippleFen

Things that will probably knock down my char, before I can kill any mobs LOL:
#Reconnecting: 2
#FrequentLags: 2
#TimesKnockedDownThxToLag: 1

Its #PracticallyImpossible to play on Asia now just because of the lag. Whatever you did Sandbox I can no longer play on Asia. If this was intended, #WellPlayed.

If not...sorry for your loss! 🤣

#Unplayable #LiterallyUnplayable.

#RestInPeaceAlbionEast

#AlbionEast / #AlbionAsia #lag has gotten out of hand.

Right now I feel that server is #Unplayable to me. It's basically the latency + the lag that already was pretty bad on the server...now seems to have gotten even worse...let's see if the 4th server is gonna be in Asia too...maybe that will unload some of the existing lag?