That's actually what I tend to do, but would be nice (for laziness) to have two different settings. Or for cases where games don't allow adjustment after starting.
Funny you bring up Kena, because that is actually probably a prime example for me too. Loved the rest of the game, but the boss fights were a bit too difficult imo!
I played a ton of StarCraft back in the day! I was never too serious about joining a clan (just dabbled), but I now remember some of the things you mentioned with the chat rooms, and clan "tags". I might be imagining it, but wasn't there also some way to set colors on letters in names too (holding down alt and pressing numbers or something...) That might have honestly been my first experience with "bots" for things adjacent to games.
Good memories, thanks very much for sharing!
Wow, that's a crazy coincidence! That "patron" system sounds pretty interesting too, seems like a good way to incentivize veterans to help new players. Interesting that I haven't really heard of any more recent games having that (as far as I know).
That sounds amazing, it is good to hear there are still some groups that have kept in contact, even after all that time!
That's awesome when you can organize an in-game group like that to achieve something you couldn't do alone. Sounds like fun times for sure! :)
It was a server-side block, from Cloudflare (security rule specifically). I'm very familiar with it, having used the same service over a decade. They are able to tweak the overall security level, or specific WAF rules for the endpoint in Cloudflare. They also have analytics that will show them exactly how many cancellation requests would be blocked. The fact that they totally ignored these details in my ticket, is concerning.
Maybe, but it would also be very easy to blame on misconfiguration / mistake. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the behavior itself isn't purposeful, but ignoring / not fixing it is. I've definitely seen such behavior at other companies, where they drag their feet on fixing a bug that is bad for the user, but helping them.
On a related note... I went to cancel a membership a few weeks back, and the site displayed a message "you don't have an active membership to cancel". I thought it was strange, so I checked out the network requests being made, and turned out the cancel API call was getting blocked for "security reasons". Nothing else on the site was blocked for me, just the cancellation endpoint.
I opened a ticket, and it took them nearly 2 weeks to respond, and there was zero acknowledgement on why cancellation would be blocked.
Not sure if it's a purposeful dark pattern, but it sure seems like it!
Worth noting that this should not affect you if you are only using tunnels (no DNS entries / open ports).
Yeah that's exactly what I'm picturing! I think the closest thing I've found is this, but they need to make a more complex version for adults - https://a.co/d/06ENF3j
Just makes me wonder if the same thing happens in other communities. Say someone posts a photo of a National Park, are there replies how they've hiked most of the trails at that park and decided it's not worth visiting?
I can see both sides too, "well we are informing people about the cons of that park, so they aren't eaten by the vicious bears!". I get that, I do! People have an opinion they want to share, nothing really wrong with that. Does that understanding make it enjoyable for me as the person just sharing the photo? Not so much...😂
Right? When I was a kid I would specifically enjoy the "challenge" of trying to beat something over and over. Nowadays though... I just like playing a game for the experience. I still like feeling "progression", so things go from difficult to easy as my character advances. But having to repeat something multiple times? Eh... just not my jam anymore.