I mean, it's not different. Pokemon and MtG also have departments to try to entice users with fomo. It's what marketing is. It's why they have limited runs, promotional crossovers, etc. Valve is just more open about the process.
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Exactly, this is just a ploy to conjure up emotions.
Not saying you knew about it, but the predecessor, Elite 2 (1993), also had procedural galaxies. The Elite series goes back to the 80s.
Also is the act of canabalism in and of itself a crime? If I eat my own leg, who's the victim?
Chicago? The city with the famously horrendous 75 year parking meter deal?
Just going to a weekend trip to the mountains can give you a few nanoseconds difference: http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
I go to the library to borrow movies, still fun.
Disagree, free loading customers still help their customer base. They are still seen as potential customers and normalize having epic store client, legitimizing their own walled garden. It's similar to any free-to-play game. All the customers that pay $0 technically cost the company money, but it's worth having that dead weight to build a player base to get the whales in. Just by installing and having an epic account will inevitably draw other people in that will spend money and lure in investors and developers. They're not dumb.
Really don't think of it from an individual point of view, but as a whole.
Not really, you cost Epic money but give them more users. Which is what they want. Only get free games from them if you want to support Epic.
There are studies that have shown staying indoors leads to bad eyesight. Combination of lack of UV and focusing on close up things. So there is some truth to sitting close to the TV is bad, even if it was only by accident. https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/analyst-comment/time-indoors-shortsightedness/?cf-view
But also, glasses exist. It's not a major issue.
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Valve is closer to physical because they have a market place. In a way it's more fair then any other game. (They still control the marketplace so it's not as fair as physical). Also as a slight defense to digital, at least we're not manufacturing and shipping more plastic waste for landfills just so people can get their gambling kick.