Yes. And don’t let the “no it’s a meta account only now” crowd play that card. It’s the same company sucking the same data in to the same ad drenched glory hole.

This wasn’t the case with the Quest 1 until it was. You could run that completely standalone with SteamVR after the backlash over a required account, then once the blowback subsided, they reintroduced the requirement.

We learned this last year after dusting off the OG Quest and trying to get it running with SteamVR. It straight refused to work without a FB/Meta account. Creating a new one has a bunch of bullshit hoops that failed when attempted behind any type of ad blocking DNS so I gave up and put the paperweight back in the case and moved on.

Fuck Meta. Fuck FB. And Fuck anything else Zuck and co touch.

Sorry for the rant it’s early and I haven’t had caffeine.

Have you tried being more in to US Politics, Linux and Privacy? I’ve found several very vibrant communities for those here.

I can’t believe my sleep addled brain read this as “e-scorts” like it was some new gaming thing.

Article says rumored price and $2000.

Saved you all a click.

Straftat since it’s not in the title.

there is no contender

A shit ton of services are down right now. Smells like an attack.

what can’t ai do?!

How can they be in tech when they deny science and believe in mythology?

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

hell no! why do something pro consumer when you can just raise prices

Thankfully they’ve updated the design to address the stick drift!

Goddammit… I don’t have time for this!

in keeping with the all caps sentiment

FUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

I will go all in on a case of Mt Mist (balling on a budget) and plastic, bulk sack of fritos twists if that happened. My boy and I still load up Jet Moto 2 for a few races a couple times a year.

As a technicality you would be correct. Games can be removed from PS+ though and it also lauched day and date on Steam. So calling it F2P instead of a PS+ Day One would be a little harder for fans to swallow on PC where it would still have been $40. See also the aforementioned Halo Infinite which launched on Xbox first then PC but only the multiplayer component is F2P on both. You can play SP with Game Pass Ultimate but you need to purchase a license to do so on Steam.

Yeah! Project Titan or something, wasn’t it?

Sony failing to get another live service game off the ground really highlights a few things.

1. How hard it is to launch something in this space. Not only has the market moved away, it was also saturated long before they dropped Condord.

2. Companies (still) fail to understand that a bad launch isn’t exactly death. There are several ways they could of tried to salvage this instead of just Zaslav’ing it for a tax write off 2 weeks in. We’ve seen plenty of examples in the past 10 years of games that were able to turn themselves around and find success. No reason a company like Sony couldn’t align resources to make it happen here.

3. This should of been on PS+ Day One… I get not putting your shorttail, singleplayer, prestige titles up there at launch. I also get not wanting to go completely F2P, a microtransaction enabled MP game though? Why the hell wouldn’t you want the biggest audience possible out the gate? Halo Infinite was a shit show at launch but it was free and has maintained a pretty damn solid user base for years because of it. Hell, I’ve even picked up a few season passes and cosmetics despite never playing a Halo MP game in the past (outside of lan’ing up for Halo 1 waaaaay back).

Lots more thoughts, but the schadenfreude is just too much right now to avoid jumping on a still warm corpse.

Fuck chat bot popups as well. Especially when I’m logged in, via VPN on a company asset to our public, Corporate Website.

at least I cant run uBlock on this install of Chrome to block element. fuck

Agree with other commenters this sounds like a time share. This last week tonight is a pretty interesting watch about the way they hustle people.

I often figure it’s google bias and / or people trying to impose their threat models on other people.

Been using proton for quite a while with a few custom domains and am impressed with the service to price of their offerings.

We can one off use cases with any vendor, but at the end of the day, they offer a more secure out of the box experience than just about any other platform out there. If someone is doing illicit shit and gets popped, it’s not on the service provider to provide air cover for them. Improve your opsec or self host.