But you can get an Android device with a reader that's actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn't even vaguely resemble functional.
I'm not advocating stock Kobo. I'm saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.
I'm genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.
It has the worst library navigation I've ever seen.
Content you can consume on the device is treated differently from purchases of anything else.
$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?
Shockingly, your brain and productivity improve when you get regular downtime.
(Yeah I know most people want something shorter than a book. It's a solid read though.)
And when it's junk out of the box because random no-name Amazon cables are universally terrible?
It's $10 and high quality. How much do you think you're saving with a junk off brand one?
lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill and stopped putting the work into character and level design.
Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.
BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there's a special custom character called Dark Urge that's intended for a later playthrough that has it's own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.
Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you're going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there's expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.
Just the first couple that come to mind. I'm not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.
Not at random retailers anywhere in the world, but yes, if you get the same quality story for a third of the launch price, that matters.
It's half the reason I never buy Nintendo games. Metroid isn't inherently "worse" than indie metroidvanias, but it's the same caliber game for twice the price (and the sales are less discounted by dollar value than the indies are on top of it). That does make it a much worse game for gamers, and it should get heavily docked for that.
Anything with microtransactions is cancer no matter how good the underlying mechanics are and should be completely banned from consideration.
Why wouldn't it be taken into consideration?
Bad monetization and excessively high pricing change the experience for gamers. There's not a lot of chance they're willing to say "microtransactions make a game ineligible" like they should, but cash grubbing microtransactions change what a game is, and they can't just not acknowledge that at all.
TorrentFreak has really been spoonfeeding Nintendo's nonsense positions about emulation everywhere lately.
From 14 to 31 is still pretty rare. (I checked, population is ~6mil).
And at such a low rate relative to the population, if you're assuming most cases don't report it, the difference in reporting could pretty easily be increased awareness that reporting it was an option or some other similar cause unrelated to an actual increased failure rate.