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Panties, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st

Got a steam deck in preparation of Silksong, having fun playing Untitled Geese Game, the couch coop is awesome. Also thinking I will try to finally finish Portal, hopefully before Thursday

ComfortableRaspberry, do games w Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me
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That looks nice! Consider posting to !imadethis as well. I’m sure they’ll love it :)

HubertManne, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st

fallout but I have gone no where as im trying to get my old home into a working homestead. ugh. copper and crystal.

StarMerchant938, do games w 'Keeping Retro Alive' - a chat with the developer of Batocera (my article!)
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Very cool. I’ve got an old Dell mini PC running batocera and I very much like it. My only gripe is that scraping the art for a large library takes an obscene amount of time.

Vodulas, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st

Been sick with COVID for 2 weeks, so been playing comfort games. Lots of Satisfactory and Dark Souls 3

byzxor, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st
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Playing a bunch of Crusader Kings 3 and Civ V. Have half a mind to learn EU4 right as (relatively) EU5 is coming out for some reason. Also played some Lost Eidolons which is kinda fun, the between combat stuff isn’t very fun however.

This past weekend Steam had a Darkest Dungeon 2 free weekend and I finally realised that those games weren’t roguelite deckbuilders (ohhh i hate those so much). So I finally tried them and they are…fine. The “I’m so edgy and dark” aesthetic gets stale really quickly, as does the slightly-but-deliberately-obtuse UX that appears in games that are supposed to be “difficult and unforgiving”.

sic_semper_tyrannis, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st

I haven’t played anything recently but have been enjoying watching YouTube videos on the creation and history of classic games like Donkey Kong, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and others

mesamunefire, do games w 'Keeping Retro Alive' - a chat with the developer of Batocera (my article!)
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Nice always look forward to your articles!

PerfectDark,
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That’s very kind of you!

I haven’t been sharing so much of these articles or interviews I’ve been doing here lately, mostly I think because it makes me look like I’m inundating the place.

But that’s so kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!

TheGreenWizard, do games w Alternatives to Twitch and YouTube for livestreaming gaming?

owncast.directory not much but there are plenty of nice people on owncast.

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 31st
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Coral Island

ech, (edited ) do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Lol, YDI. When asked to provide the identifiable information, you just say “Stop and do the thing I want.” You seriously expect them to just hand over an account to someone who can’t provide basic information about it? You owned yourself, pal.

I misread the order of the interaction, which painted a much more antagonistic view of OP. Sorry about that. That said, the actual interaction plus their further reaction here is still not good. “Brainstorming how to automate the requests” is not an appropriate response to any of this.

Luffy879,

Just wait until that guy learns about Crypto

I’m just imagining their pure rage when reaching out to a Bitcoin Dev/maintainer whatever with something like „I don’t know what my Wallets name was, idk my 10 phrase password, but give me back my 10$ in Btc right now”

And then pasting this again with the Title DONT BUY BTC THEY SCAM YOU

Dude, treat every service like your wallet.

You have an Email, you have a password. If you forget these, consider everything the Support does as an extra service and not the bare minimum.

maxwells_daemon,

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.

jj4211,

Look at the timestamps, the conversation is from top to bottom. So technically I guess he tried to answer, but he probably missed the answer and instead had a tone that happened to match exactly how a scammy email would sound.

If legitimate, it’s probably better that they didn’t get to successfully automating spamming the support system. Nothing screams legitimate requests like bot spamming… Don’t know the tone of his follow ups, but best to take a breath and reset their tone and try again, asking what other details aside from nickname can be used, given their steam access.

Odo,

I think you meant “bottom to top”. But yes, that does change the tone a bit.

ech,

Ah, yeah, I totally misread those screenshots. My mistake. Still not good, though. I take back that YDI, but yeah, not surprised they’re getting ghosted after all that.

WeebLife, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Time to sail the high seas.

Wildmimic, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Don't give them money because you aren't able to keep your email address updated? Don't give them money because you are not able to provide the information they need to verify you are who you say you are?

I've worked costumer support for many years, and me and my supervisors would have rejected your request too. Since you can't provide what they want (not even a definite nickname wtf), you probably can't prove the purchase either.

Don't flame some poor support guy or a company, kick yourself in the ass for letting it slide for so long that you cant even remember the original nickname anymore and chalk it up as a learning experience - we've all been there.

FigMcLargeHuge,

Well then can we flame them (rockstar) for turning off Linux support on GTA V Online? I know the exact same anticheat works on linux, because I am playing Dune online and it’s working just fine. So yeah, back to that, fuck rockstar!

Wildmimic,

yeah, that's a flameable offense, i agree.

FigMcLargeHuge,

Thanks. I was pretty bummed when they flipped that switch.

crx, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Exact same for me but an Ubisoft game linking my Steam account to a long gone email address of a long gone Ubisoft account.

Absolutely hopeless customer support saying there is no possible way for them to help me.

Good thing I wasn’t planning on buying any Ubisoft game ever again, problem pretty much sorted itself out.

artyom, (edited ) do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.

Yeah this is the cancer that is email 2FA.

Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account. But this is very much not exclusive to Rockstar.

I changed my email a couple of years ago and it's absolutely astonishing how many companies are completely unequipped to deal with someone changing or deleting their email account.

chicken,

Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on lazily coded automated systems.

artyom,

Yes, it is the lazy way to secure accounts. No defense there.

Nibodhika,

Yes, things like original email and Nickname are some of those questions because after they change the public might have no way of figuring it out. Notice the support tech asked for those informations and when provided with it he said that he couldn’t verify ownership, this means OP reported wrong information for the identifying questions.

I’m not saying the service is great, asking him to access an email he claims to have lost access is dumb, but everything after that the tech support person did his best, and I don’t think he should have disabled 2FA, since it could be a social engineering attack.

chicken,

Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

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