I've noticed the slight increase in vertical space when I've used paragraph breaks in Markdown editors in the past and I thought it was some sort of rendering error. I feel like I've unlocked secret knowledge. Thanks for your post!
A gift card isn't cash, legally or literally. Gift cards also require processors. So this could happen again with gift cards, just with a different set of processing companies.
So what's your answer? Cheques, money orders, cash in the mail? Or maybe MasterCard, Visa, and their ilk shouldn't legally be allowed to limit legal purchases that haven't been flagged as fraud.
As Steph Sterling has said multiple times, they're making the games boring and grindy so they can sell you the convenience of skipping the boring and grindy parts. How fun.
I got the game for free in 2015 as part of a choose-your-own-bundle promo for the AMD R9 270X. Haven't paid a cent for it and I still sorta feel ripped off.
It would be so cool if this meant Funcom had extra money to put into The Secret World (now known as Secret World Legends). Love that game, wish there was more. I know there's a TTRPG now but it's not the same.
They are heavy-handed and it comes at the expense of atmosphere and tension; a lot of their efforts come across as cheap even though there're obvious signs of attention and care.
I think the remake of Silent Hill 2 suffers for it. They shouldn't be given this franchise IMO. You can see it in Layers of Fear and The Medium, and even in The Observer and Blair Witch to some extent.
I like Bloober Team (I've played a ton of their games, obviously) but they just haven't impressed me to the point of convincing me they can remake of Silent Hill properly. It's an important franchise and they miss the mark on all of the subtleties that made the originals excellent.