But they sell retro games too! Yeah, that little shelf in the middle beside the shirts. No, the really skinny one. The one with one obscure GameCube game, 2 OG Xbox games, and a bunch of crappy Disney Channel DS games. Yeah, that’s the one. They sell retro games!
Apple is the second cheapest option. Damn, times have changed, for sure.
Adobe needs to fuck off and die already. Lots of bad business practices like the subscription model were popularized by them.
Malcolm in the Middle & Metal Gear Solid V
Not sure how this would look.
Even places where you can download music aren’t safe anymore.
I bought an album back in September 2022 on iTunes and downloaded it. Apple Music synced some of my music and fucked up my library, causing me to have to go to a backup from August 2019. I thought, “no problem, I’ll just go download that album from iTunes again.”
Album is no longer available for download. I have a receipt showing I legitimately paid for it.
I’ve found others online saying the same. One person even defending this behavior “well it’s not Apple’s fault the music isn’t on the store anymore”. Maybe not, but I’m going to need a refund from them if that’s the case. We shouldn’t be tolerating this BS.
It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.
That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.
Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. The Crash developers did this in the PlayStation 1 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.