Yeah, love fish!

Yeah, where is the “but think about the children” crowd when you need it ;).

After getting roped into Black Desert by a friend, I decided to never touch a game with microtransactions again. I had a love and hate relationship with that one. I loved the core of the game and the world, but you can feel every aspect of the game is designed to tug at you to spend money, keep you loging in daily and reward your endorphin system with gambling mechanics.

On top of it you get a pricing system that is outright predatory, with prices designed to milk whales and exploit the fear of missing out in normies. E.g. a single costume for a single character up to 30€ outside of sales and all the default stuff is outright dull and boring in design (endgame armor makes everyone look the same, like you’re wearing a full body shrub suit)

It applies to every game with buyable ingame currency and goes much deeper. Sadly they are just guidelines. Still tho, they do make the companies more susceptible to lawsuits.

• Price indication should be clear and transparent.
• Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided.
• Practices that force consumers to purchase unwanted in-game virtual currency should be avoided.
• Consumers should be provided with clear and comprehensive pre-contractual information.
• Consumers’ right of withdrawal should be respected.
• Contractual terms should be fair and written in plain and clear language.
• Game design and gameplay should be respectful of different consumer vulnerabilities.

When remodelling my NAS I was tempted to go for unraid as well, but in the end I chose OMV. Aside from some minor problems here and there it has been running great.