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  • As greedy as GTA V was with its multiplayer, Rockstar has a history of releasing a good single player base game before they start with that, and looking as GTA VI leaked map, I don’t see that changing now. It’ll definitely be nothing more than a single player experience for me though.

    Plus, were might have to wait one or two years to play it on PC, especially on Linux, so there’s a lot of time for considerations…














  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.
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    1 year ago

    Everyone in the comments making such a huge deal of account security when literally all Rockstar had to do was allow people to unlink their Steam accounts from Social Club. It could even be done in their own launcher, with the credentials of the Steam account that actually owns the game. Then people could just make a new Social Club account, it’s not worth shit anyways.

    They’re locking people out of playing a local, offline game, over some decade old account that I used my spam email for, and now I’m supposed to remember it? Get a fucking grip bro.


  • Social Club is the kind of account you use a throwaway email for, and just use whatever random nickname isn’t taken yet. I, personally, have no idea what the email or nickname to my Social Club account are. I also have bought GTA V through Steam back in 2015 and haven’t lived into Social Club since. I think it’s perfectly fair to expect that your Steam account shouldn’t be hijacked by Rockstar upon linking it to one Social Club account once.

    At the very least, if they’re gonna have a Rockstar launcher, it should allow you to unlink your Steam account through it, using your Steam credentials, and free it up to link to a new Social Club account.



  • I can’t say that I know of a single adult who isn’t against children being able to access porn. The question is: how exactly do you expect to achieve that without nuking porn as a whole?

    First, if we decide that porn is just unacceptable to be available for anyone to see because children might access it, then who decides where to draw the line? Does hentai count? Or should it be banned as well? How about artistic nudity? Do painters get a pass? Does Hollywood get a pass? What about educational material? How realistic can a diagram of the reproductive system be before it’s bannable?

    If we’re actually trying to restrict access to porn just from underage people, specifically, then how? I’m sure you’re aware of UK’s recent attempt to enforce online ID requirement under the premise of protecting children from harmful content. If that’s how, then why exactly does Spotify require an ID now? I’ve, personally, never gone there looking for porn. Same with YouTube, tbh. And also, why have people opposing such measures been visited, and questioned, by the British police?

    Truth is: online ID is not about protecting children, it’s about governmental control, especially powerful for minority profiling. Anyone saying otherwise is either uninformed, lying, or just delusional. No one is opposing that children should get their access restricted, I’d say that’s not even just about porn, I don’t want to see children on Twitter, Reddit or TikTok either. The problem is doing that reliably, while respecting people’s right to privacy. Once there’s a real solution for that, I’ll support it. For now, the best solution we have is parental control, which was available for as long as internet has been a product. “Protect YOUR children” is no revolutionary take.