And I think you swallowed one too many Apple ads.

Outrage drives engagement. They push whatever will get the biggest reaction.

It wants you to use their fees. It wants to tell you what to watch like Instagram.

The War of Emperium concept is easily one of my top 5 greatest game features. Probably #1 or #2. Such a blowout cool idea especially for it’s time.

Agreed. It’s one of the greats.

Trying to say it outlived WoW or in some way beat it is wrong through.

I trust ads more than I trust them being sued for millions by regulators across the globe.

No wonder you ended up with an Apple device. Lol.

My town had hundreds at several intersections. People rotating in and out all day. Cars constantly blaring horns. Just a little suburb.

Legend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.

In 2009 RuneScape had ~200,000 daily players. WoW had ~5.5 million.

Current estimates are RuneScape at ~150,000 and I’m being generous. WoW is at ~1.1 million.

I don’t like WoW either, but it’s the king for a reason.

That reason is they paid addiction specialists to tune drop rates and combat to make children addicted to their product.

A lot of them are. You’re not wrong. There are a few gems, but I feel like technical limitations made a lot of early ones pure grindfests. Never my favorite genre. I did like Ragnarok Online back in the day. Total grindfests. Lol.

I’m not sure it’s really the same kind of thing. I’d argue anyone who is genuinely interested in an MMO would like a different game better. RuneScape has more in common with an AOL chatroom or text based game than a moden MMO even by the standards for an MMO way back when.

Other games wish they were WOW and WOW is a bad game imo.

It’s not. iOS has just been awful for a long time and since it hasn’t been downgraded in recent memory and some people take that as a positive thing.

iOS does not have better privacy protections. Privacy is more than putting the word Privacy in an ad. French Regulators fined Apple millions for illegal data collection AND they’re still being sued by multiple orgs. In fact, you have no choice to opt out of the collection, only to opt out of it being used for personalization. Android has more granular controls over every permission. Until they really pull the plug GrapheneOS and others still count on Androids side as well.

Apple was cool before the iMac in '98. After that they’ve been drumming their products down. There is genuinely no advantage. “It just works” except it works less than my windows machine. “It’s more Unix like” Windows has WSL now. “Muh Enclave Chip” TPM is better. Both collect your data.

Anyone who prefers or likes Apple products does it because of vibes and appearance rather than anything with technical.

I do want to add, Android beating iOS in privacy isn’t a high mark. It doesn’t mean Android is good with privacy.

Hope and fairy farts mostly. I’m assuming they’ll branch out from what they have now if Android chooses to do that. Ala MariaDB.

Capitalists with capital deal do well in and after a recession or depression.

The US us just an Israeli proxy state to fund wars in the Middle East is probably closer to the truth. Lol.

iOS isn’t any better. I’m looking to OnePlus and maybe LineageOS. Hopefully GrapheneOS isn’t dead.

Catholics are on are side in this. You reactionaries will throw all your allies out the window to preserve some mythical high ground you’ve never once held.

They’ll have people in death camps, but at least you didn’t have to be nice to people you don’t like, huh?

Get some perspective.

Because they’re in on it too.

We welcome all bourgeoisie class traitors. Don’t let the endless purity tests get in the way of success.