The telemetry bungie used to popular stats on their website is better than pretty much any modern game today outside of like CS2. I will caveat that by saying modern practices require you put things behind an api with a paywall of some sort, but they had freaking action heatmaps in 2004.
One thing that halo and some other games do is let you thumb through the last matchs stats while the next map loads. Valve games just throw you a map loading screen you’ve seen a thousand times.
That last one was in other xbox live games before it, but Halo 2's Xbox Live brought online gaming to everyone's television room whereas before it was only on the computer.
To be fair you have to realize how much more dependent the global economy is on software nowadays. Halo was a Bungie product, and when Bungie left as Microsoft took it over yeah, the product had loftier business goals that needed to be protected. Smaller devs can't really reach critical market saturation anymore like they used to.
You can criticize where things has gone with MTX but I don't think that was a choice by the game developers. I also think it's a generational thing as you and I are now too old to spend all day fucking around with some game we played a ton. I'm sure the kids of today are tinkering with minecraft/fortnite/whatever replaced those games.
Also to me it's a bit of wanting to try and put the tooth paste back in the tube. When we were teenagers modding Halo we maybe didn't fully understand the impacts it had on the game's community and the overall experience. As an adult I just see how games like Call of Duty appear to be constantly losing the fight against hackers, and using over engineered matchmaking algos with SSBM to try and maximize the typical user's gameplay experience. But I can't regain my naivety and be one of the many younger adults who probably don't even really notice these issues, the way I didn't when I played Halo 3 on Xbox Live which had boosting, standby, and stealth servers.
The author has racked up significant debt hoarding other archival materials over the years so yeah he's a little disappointed someone else just threw stuff he spent good money on saving
couldn't someone just buy one of those chinese sxm2 to pcie adapter boards and test continuity to get the pinouts? I have one that could take like 10 minutes
I think the issue is for the IA that isn't lucrative enough to make it worth there time. Someone already did it for them for free, even if it wasn't 100% as good as they could have done it.
Wait, the paid tier of a service that has a free tier almost never means they're stopping data collection at the free tier of users. This article seems to confuse that with switch to a different service provider that is paid only.
It then goes into self-hosted, but wait why don't you just pay someone to self-host for you?
Yeah, there’s a huge difference between (e.g.) ProtonMail and “the new” Outlook.
Some companies sell their privacy policies as a feature. The issue is that a lot of customers don’t really care about that feature and there’s no strong regulation to protect them.
You’re right, but privacy policies are binding for the company. So it does matter if you pick a company that says “we share your info with everyone” compared to the company that won’t.
The problem is avoiding "surveillance capitalism" or even generally "privacy" isn't a selling point for the mass market.
Things which matter to people:
- Do you like moderators in a foreign country being paid $2 an hour reviewing your personal photos?
- Do you agree that your personal messages to a friend can be retroactively edited if you sent something that was "disinformation"?
- Would you like files on your computer's personal hard drive copied in to a commercial cloud service and deleted locally because you accidentally mis-read or mis-read on a single pop-up message?
- Would you like to read advertisements and news articles when launching your favorite application?
- Would you like those ads and news articles to become more invasive over time based on which ones you looked at last time?
- Would you like the owners of the app store you purchased your favorite app from make more net profit from the sale than the developer who built it?
- Would you like your favorite app to run differently than it did yesterday, without choice or warning?
- Would you like your favorite app to no longer be usable or downloadable because development ceased?
Even someone who broadcasts their personal life publicly, with strong signals of their wealth and where they will be to rob or kidnap them, will have issues with things in this list.
All of those points are unknown unknowns or minor inconveniences to all of my non technical friends except these two:
> - Would you like files on your computer's personal hard drive copied in to a commercial cloud service and deleted locally because you accidentally mis-read or mis-read on a single pop-up message?
A friend of mine was bitten by this and One Drive (is that the subject, right?) is really difficult to understand and get right. I had to configure it on a server of a customer. We needed a remote share and it does not behaves like that. Nobody expects it to work in the way it works. There is something wrong in all of its design and UX.
> Would you like your favorite app to no longer be usable or downloadable because development ceased?
Another friend of mine is keeping her very old phone alive because it's the only way to operate I don't remember what (heating?) The app does not work with both new Android and new iOS (she has both) so she has that old phone at home in a drawer. I just refuse to buy anything that requires an app to work. I want physical switches, knobs and displays built into the device.
They are unknowns until they encounter them directly. As Apple and Microsoft receive their revenue growth from advertising and subscription services, they will all get worse and encountered more frequently by more users.
I got a few 'what the fuck' messages from distant contacts when they discovered that Facebook modified or deleted messages, which they believed to be private. This drove significant growth in Signal (which probably was under or not reported.) I'm not sure if people don't actually care about privacy/security, or rather they don't really comprehend how this stuff works.
