Mastodawn

Tech Tangents Apr 16, 2024

In my recent video about DRM on physical games rendering them useless, I mentioned that I kept seeing Wildstar for sale *years* after the servers were offline. I not so subtly indicated this is probably fraud, but I just realized something about this particular case...

This was fraud against Walmart.

The publisher's destroyed all value of the product before the retailer could sell it, and I bet Walmart didn't know about that risk when they bought these.

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Robot Apr 18, 2024

@TechTangents Lucky's Tale had a console release??

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nano's old account's rotting corpse Apr 18, 2024

@robot @TechTangents it was actually an xbox game originally. it only came to windows as part of xbox play anywhere

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Robot Apr 18, 2024

@nano @TechTangents really? even before the CV1 version?

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nano's old account's rotting corpse Apr 18, 2024

@robot @TechTangents heh, you're thinking of lucky's tale. super lucky's tale is an xbox/windows sequel

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Robot

@nano @TechTangents yeah, i noticed the difference in title. just was really suprised regardless. I hadn't even known it was a sequel. I thought it was one of those paid updates to a free title with extra features and story. Like baldi's basics plus (i hate that this is the only example i can think of off the top of my head lol)