Post #1737144

2026-04-14 12:32 UTC

I want to eat the cake I bought. I don’t want to buy a cake and then have it taken away from me before I’m finished eating it. I understand you don’t want to deliver cake anymore. That’s fine. You need to open the rest of the box so I can get the rest of my cake out. You don’t need to deliver anymore to me You just need to not take away the cake I already have.

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@fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2026-04-14 12:50

There’s just too many liabilities there. A lot of these games they have routines to update the entire software OR simply where they can run arbitrary scripts or things like that. Arbitrary code execution would be a huge problem. Even if it wasn’t an automatic thing and you could simply push a message out to people, “hey you need to update this, you know we don’t have the money Ubisoft has, but we’re making some updates anyways because we love y’all! So go download this… And please donate to keep the show going!” Bam. Pwned. Things like maintaining usernames and passwords being passed off to Independent third parties? The users would fucking revolt at such an idea. This is one of those things that I get sounds really good in the perfect utopian society where there’s no bad actors. But the reality is people want your cake.

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