Honestly, even just preventing MCR is a win in my book. Add on preventing Twilight and we’re doing great, THEN preventing 50 Shades of Grey? They need to get to work on that time machine right away!

I guess this is just a difference in how we look at it. I have for decades now used what I perceive as quality/value to decide whether I should buy a game or whether it may be worth if later if it goes on a steep sale. For example, some AAA game that get polarizing reviews or is known to be very short might be an instance where I’d be not be inclined to pay full price because to me, it wasn’t worth the price. Raising the price of a game to $80 means that I personally will want more value out of it. I just bought a game on Steam yesterday for $20 on sale, which was to me worthwhile. If it had been $80, there is no way I would have bought it.

Ironically, GrapheneOS and Calyx are some of the few in position to actually soft fork from AOSP because they don’t implicitly rely on having access to Google Play Services and the Play Store. Many of their users don’t want anything to do that with that stuff, which is what Google holds over the heads of all the OEMs.

It sucks that I just bought a new phone a month ago so that I could move back to GrapheneOS. That being said, I’ll personally be fine with no updates as long as they don’t push out some update that cripples the OS. I use my phone like a nearly dumb phone, but that won’t cut it for 99.9% of people…

So, just so I am clear, you think that it is silly to want different amounts of quality or value from products based on how they are priced?

They probably meant that it felt like a game that was stripped down and shallow compared to similar AAA “full price” games and I completely agree. After playing the first one, I wouldn’t only consider buying this new game if it was at least 50% off.

The 8a is a great replacement, but I can understand someone not wanting to give Google any more money after they pull this shit AGAIN. I had to because GrapheneOS wasn’t available on anything else.

This is too real for me this early in the morning