Pretty surprised by Baldur's Gate getting so many players. I knew it'd be successful but considering how comparatively few people played Divinity Original Sin, it's a huge jump

Are we finally going to see the death of 2b2t? Thought it'd be around forever

Chinese piracy is ...odd. But generally speaking, yes they love to pirate shit. Most disc movies over there are counterfeits, not official. So most home media purchases are pirated.

People are able to get past the firewall pretty easily, the same information needed for P2P is needed to get past the great firewall. So if you're able to get past the firewall, you're probably able to download games without being caught. Separate from the great fire wall, Android is by far the most used operating system in Asia as a continent. There is a constant flow of apps like 4Shared and Zedge that provide access to pirated content with pretty much no barriers and they succeed quite well in China.

Piracy over there is pretty much a norm, whether you're knowingly pirating or not. Linus Tech Tip's Chinese channel is ran by Chinese pirates that the company hired eventually. But the Chinese front for that channel is literally just some random guys that started downloading the videos, translating them and posting them for the ad revenue. Sure the viewers may not have known it was pirated, but the viewers were still technically pirating 🤷‍♀️

I use swipe typing, so yes.

For an app that you can't even make a post from yet. I don't care who you are, $180 for an app still missing basic functionality is always going to be a hard sell.

Morbius 2 is going to recontextualize what "Morbin" is fr

Yeah, no posting yet. That's my big issue with Sync on Lemmy so far. Monetization was implemented and there were multiple price increases all before some of the most basic features of Lemmy are even on the app. When everything else is already fully functional and free, it just becomes a harder sell than it was on Reddit.

One change I'd recommend is some sort of "Pay what you want" option for a subscription. If he did a minimum of $2 a month, it would be about the same cost but would make users feel like they have more agency over how much they pay. While I'm sure many people would just pay the minimum, giving users more choice will just lead to people who want to chip in more. We've all paid $5 for a humble bundle, but I'm sure a few of us have also chipped in $100 if it was the right charity or cause.

As someone raised Mormon, this is so fucking funny

Fuck iLok. Shit made me regret buying plugins, should have stuck with piracy.

I think Sync might end up hosting a Lemmy instance for ultra users. It could help user experience quite a bit

The return of the king 😎

Such a great way to implement gameplay into the emotions of a game. It was like after someone died in real life, you keep thinking about messaging them all the cool things you find that they'd like only to realize they're not there. You just sent a meme to a phone number that hasn't been paid for in months. Maybe you even start paying the phone bill so you can keep hearing their voicemail. Continuing to reach for half of the controller that can't do anything now is just amazing.