🔒 EXCLUSIVE: Id/Hakuso - High Quality

I see the fnords!

Mostly moved to GOG, now. Had too many cases of a Steam game forcing an "update" that broke it, added DRM, or KLAC spyware to something that did *not* have issues when I purchased it. GOG allows me to install, and retain, the version I choose.

For instance... The completely broken login to play single player offline Borderlands 1 & 2 "updates" that came out more than a decade after launch? Yeah, no reason I need to be forced to sign into a SHIFT account, and deal with all the EGS crap, for a game that's so old. Make a damn remaster, if you want to screw people, don't break the perfectly fine game we bought so long ago, and don't force me to upgrade to broken trash when I had a perfectly good copy.

Happened with GTA V, too, when they forced Social Club into it, but that was before it came to Steam so it was always a mess of online microtranscation shilling garbage and never just a working game like when I bought it.

I'm still here, but mostly only for Square Enix titles, though after how bad they screwed me with never patching Dragon Quest XI, then releasing a *cheaper* DQ XI S, with the patches the original needed, and extra content, but demanding people who paid $60 at launch pay $40 again for the fixes we were denied... Well, they moved way down on the value scale for me with that. 50% off minimum, aiming for 75% off, all for trying to grab a few extra bucks from loyal early adopters.

Now Bandai Namco is doing the same thing, Berseria Remaster! A game that nobody asked to be remastered, but with the patches we asked for for a DECADE added. Not for people who bought it early, but for people picking up a cheap remaster a decade later, or those of us dumb enough to buy the same game twice just to have it work properly.

Until Valve offers us some protection against Corporate F***ery (TM) I think I'm mostly done here, and what little I do still purchase will be at a DEEP discount.