I mean, I certainly haven't noticed that. Even if you don't like your character, you can still easily buy the item in game. I've only been playing about 5 hours and can easily afford to change my character appearance 5 times over.
Blueberrydreamer
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That ship sailed over a decade ago. You can look at the current gaming landscape and pretend this isn't already normalized. Compared to most AAA game releases, this is a step in the right direction.
That's literally the entire point of making the distinction between throwing away bottles with the cap and without. What did you think this was about?
Feel free to try it out yourself, but people bring this up for a reason. You are wildly underestimating the strength of thin plastics.
Technically true, but kinda pointless to bring up here. It's a thin layer that's vaporized during recycling. Not exactly comparable to a plastic bottle containing tens of thousands of times more plastic that's probably gonna sit in a landfill shedding plastic bits for the next 100,000 years.
A bottle full of air rolls when stepped on, with no cap they just squish flat.
Obviously, most of Mega's traffic is piracy, they have no interest in doing that. The point is it's an actual comparison instead of the nonsense you brought up.
Of course no individual site is going to singlehandedly stop criminal acts. Glad you agree it would be exactly as effective as I suggested.
I mean, I know Google has been shitty lately, but Wikipedia isn't hard to find: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(penology)
I'd wager Nintendo has put some fear into a few folks considering developing emulators, but that's the only comparison to be made here. The lack of any real consequences for individuals downloading roms is why so many are happy to publicly proclaim their piracy.
Now, I bet if megaupload added an AI that checked users uploads for copyrighted titles and gave everyone trying to upload them a warning about possible jail time, we'd see a hell of a lot less roms and movies on mega.
But having that tracking shown to you has a very powerful psychological effect.
It's pretty well established that increasing penalties for crimes does next to nothing to prevent those crimes. But what does reduce crime rates is showing how people were caught for crimes, making people believe that they are less likely to 'get away with it'.
Being confronted with your own searches is an immediate reminder that the searcher is doing something illegal, and that they are not doing so unnoticed. That's wildly different than abstractly knowing that you're probably being tracked somewhere by somebody among billions of other people.
So what games have you played in the last decade? This is the industry, you might as well complain about predatory concession prices at movie theaters. Is it shitty? Sure. But it's a trap for the ignorant, and frankly I can only go so far to try to protect people from throwing away their money on stupid things.