zalack

I've never had a bad experience on release with any of the Bethesda games I've played. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4.

I didn't play 76, and like -- fair game.

But for the games I've played it's never been more than visual / physics bugs, or script events not triggering and doing a quick load to fix it.

Most importantly, I've always had a blast, even with the rough edges. As long as it seems like the devs gave it an honest go, are fixing bugs the players trigger, and the company didn't lie about the state of the game, it's just a much better experience to have a little grace around the launch of an ambitious game.

People forget that there is a huge bias in online engagement towards whoever is unhappy with a thing. You see it in gaming subs all the time. People who like the game tend to... play the game, while people who have a bone to pick are the ones who put it down and vent their frustrations online.

Even if 80% of the comments about a game are negative, that 80% might all come from 15% of the player base who dislike it.

I fear the same thing is happening with Reddit. It's a very engaged 5% that's making up 90% of the comments. I really hope I'm either wrong about that, or the without they very engaged 5%, the rate and/or quality of the content drops enough that it starts impacting engagement levels of casual users who aren't as invested.

Relay also has excellent UI. I tried pretty much every Reddit app available on Android and kept coming back to Relay.

Wow. I had not done the math. That's an obscene amount of money. 1000 requests is nothing for a web app like Reddit, even with agreeing over-fetching.

The crazy thing is that they might have gotten away with it if they had structured it right. Set up the infastructure themselves to charge the individual user directly for their API use rather than the App creators. Carve out exceptions for moderation APIs and known moderation bots. I probably would have paid a few bucks a month to keep using Relay. I would have grumbled about it... but I would have done it.

Now I'm just gonna leave, lol.

Thanks for the swift response!

Is there a guide for how to register on multiple Lemmy instances? I am registered here, but noticed that I can't subscribe to communities on other instances? I assume I need to register there as well, but how do I get my subscriptions on both instances to funnel into the same place?

Thanks! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this

Yeah, I understand the underlying reason for doing this. I just think they're killing the chicken to get the eggs. Rather than make a little less money on me (but still make money) they are going to lose a user completely who regularly comments and posts

That's hilarious. What a cluster. If they want more performant API calls than maybe they should expose something like a graphql endpoint. Otherwise there's only so much you can optimise through a REST interface.

The thing is I don't even use Relay for Reddit to avoid the monitization. I use it because it's the best Reddit experience out of all the apps I've tried, especially compared to the official offering.

If they wanted to make money off of me, they could just add a charge to use the API at the user level. I would pay $5/month to Reddit in order to use the API, including through third-party apps. Like, I get it, go have to keep the lights on and I get a lot of value out of the site.

They're just going about it all wrong, and users like me are going to end up not using the site anymore.