Not sure why they are bothering with this, it will likely get DMCA'd, especially with the news from last year on the series. I partook in this survey and it heavily leaned into questions regarding a potential remake.
https://www.gamingbible.com/news/new-legacy-of-kain-game-finally-being-teased-417234-20230421
I'm sure this will get some downvotes, but how is buying a PS5 to let it sit considered a boycott? You literally handed them money for air at this point.
I understand compulsion purchasing as I suffer from it myself, but purchasing a whole console to let it sit is a whole nother level and just adds to the entire problem you're complaining about.
This is my main reason for not using them. I have two Pihole servers running gravity sync, unbound and wireguard on each and VPN my phone back home for self hosted DNS resolution and ad blocking.
Have they asked the engine how they can generate more revenue?
My nephew whom is mainly an FPS player and said that BG3 was not for him has recently picked it up and is loving multiplayer with his friends.
As a previous player of the BG series and others like it, BG3 is a far cry from any of its predecessors. I'm not stating your opinion isn't fair, but wanted to also give another account of players that don't consider this their type of game and are surprised to like it.
I see them as one in the same. You put bait on a hook in fishing, both to lure in your catch. It's just a new term for the internet age.
Literally the same thought I had.
I have Nextcloud hosted internally in a podman container environment. To answer some of your more security related questions, here's how I have my environment set up:
Cloudflare free tier with my own domain to proxy outside connections to the public domain name, and hide my external IP.
A DMZ proxy server with a local traefik container with only ports required to talk to the internal Nextcloud server allowed, and inbound 443 only allowed from the internet (cloudflare).
An Authelia container tied to the Nextcloud container using "Two-factor TOTP" app addon. Authelia is configured to point to a free DUO account for MFA. The TOTP addon also allows other methods of you want to bypass Authelia and use a simply Google auth or other app. I'll be honest, this setup was a pain but it works beautifully when finally working.
Note: Using Authelia removes Nextcloud from the authentication process. If you login through Authelia, if set up correctly it will pass the user information to Nextcloud and present thier account. There is a way to have "quadruple" authentication of you really want it, where you log in through Authelia, Authelia MFA, then Nextcloud and Nextcloud MFA, but who would want that? Lol.
Another Note: If Authelia goes down for whatever reason, you can still log in through Nextcloud directly.
I have all of my containers set to automatically pull updates with the latest tag. This bites me sometimes of major changes happen, but it's typically due to traefik or mariadb changes and not Nextcloud or Authelia.
I have my host operating system set to auto update and reboot once a week in the early morning.
My data is shared through an NFS connection from my NAS that only allows specific IPs to connect. I'd like to say I'm using least privileged permissions in the share, but it's a wide open share as my NFS permissions are not my strong suite.
Hope the above helps!
There's a mobile version on Android with online functionality now too
I remember Scorched Earth from the DOS, Win95 days that this was based on. The tanks would hurl slurs at each other before shooting and I recall a similar purchasing system that you mention as well.
It'd be a shame for these companies to build some kind of cosmetic DLC priced at 10k or higher that "unlocks the full game" to avoid the charges. I'm sure Unity would just build some legal lingo to get around that loophole however.