• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    9 months ago

    You forgot:

    • Forced to create an account with a password of arbitrary complexity.
    • Get sent a code to verify your email.
    • Have to solve a captcha to put in the code.
    • Captcha doesn’t work.
    • “Your code is expired, please try again.”
    • Mandatory shitty launcher that defaults to running in the background all the time.
    • “Severs offline, please try again later.”
    • “You are logged in in too many locations.”
    • "Exclusive: $31.99 $29.95 for DLC content that should have been in the base game! Flash Sale! Buy now!
    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      2 years later.

      Subject: recent security breach

      We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our “secure systems” and took them.

      5 years later

      Subject: compensation for security incident.

      Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          9 months ago

          No no no, you buy store credit in multiples of 400 credits but things cost multiples of 700 credits.

          • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Just that, and then you somehow end up with 3 credits that will forever be stuck there because nothing ever cost anything that can make the 3 go away. So you will never have a round number of credits again.

            How could I forget that.