Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I’m keeping my expectations low.

EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.

EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It’s no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I’d paid for it.

Check megathread on sidebar.

As soon as anyone can download a game, all pirates can too (unless Denuvo)!

No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

I’ve never had a problem with them.

Yes, but it’s huge, over 100GB. BG3 all over again!

Not yet, just waiting for it.

Every day they stray further from Odin.

“Smoking is bad, m’kay? You shouldn’t smoke. And alcohol…well, drinking alcohol is very bad, m’kay?”

Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.

Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.

It’s not useless - they’re not trying to keep you from coming here, they’re trying to avoid liability for themselves.

That narrative appears to be correct, although at the end I think it may have been more like “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”

They definitely should have been more transparent about why they chose to do it at this particular time.

Why’s that?

It’s not really a Streisand effect, because .world doesn’t give a shit if you go to those places or not - they just don’t want the liability of you doing it from their instance.

No, that’s the removeds at lemmy.ml.

Yeah, I agree with that. It’s not the blocking that’s such an issue, it’s how they came to decide to do it. Definitely wasn’t handled well. I wonder if the (even more) downtime they’ve been having recently is a result of more people being pissed about this move piling on to the DDOS attacks?

That’s true. The reasons given were unsatisfyingly vague.

Yeah, that was a dumb reason, I agree. But I also think it was inevitable with .world being the biggest instance. They’re the first place in Lemmy any corporation will go to if they wanna sue.