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  • I was hesitant for a bit. I followed the development of the game for about a year before I decided to join in.

    In my mind, as long as they are making actual progress on the game and the tech, then it’s not a scam.

    A scam would have walked away with the money by now, or they would be running with a skeleton crew and making slow progress.

    But, in the end, the game is fun to play once you know what you need to do to avoid the worst bugs. That kind of gameplay isn’t for everyone. If it’s a “scam” then I certainly have enjoyed my money’s worth of it.



















  • I wouldn’t delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

    Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn’t lost and you’ll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.









  • Right, but how would they handle the case where personally identifiable information could be in the text itself?

    Someone could tell a very descriptive story with enough detail that you can figure out who it is, or maybe someone who knows enough of the story in real life could figure out exactly who it was that made the comment?

    For example, someone makes a comment with a long story and in there they include something like, “I’m Karen and I work at the restaurant where that [insert some major news story here…]”. People make mistakes all the time and they might want to quickly delete that information.

    Not only that, if you look at enough of someone’s comment history you can start figuring out a lot of information about that person. In one comment they might mention the city they live in, in another they might mention the name of the business they work at, somewhere else you figure out their gender, in some cases they may even post a picture of themselves.

    Edit: fixed formatting where some text was hidden.




  • You have to remember that this game came out a long time ago, it had many features at the time that set it above other games.

    It had a good storyline, multiplayer, maps that would change every time you logged in (multiplayer), the ability to be powerful after spending a lot of time in the game (and if you saw anyone with a rare/cool looking armor you know they worked for it, there were no lootbox mechanics where you could just pay money for it). And of course… there is no cow level ;) The skill tree allowed for tons of different abilities and combos, or you could grind away at a single skill and become godly with it.

    You may not recognize the appeal to the game now just because so many of the mechanics have been copied and implemented in countless other games since then.