For unrelated reasons, yes, but I’m considering the possibility that payment processors know they’ll be asked to prove they aren’t facilitating illegal transactions, and may have asked Valve to make purchase details available to them for that purpose. If Valve agreed to remove content from the store instead of blowing up user privacy, that would be a win.
But it might just be the PPs being dickheads.
I enjoyed it, too, about 200 hours worth with my wife on it. It had multiple crashes, BattlEye was forced with it, and the whole model was set up to make people rent servers from their affiliated server company for like 20$/mo. There were plenty of servers paid for by people to choose from beyond the official ones, but again it’s the same business model.
Heard good things about Helldivers but I’ve been too busy to buy more games lately.
This game is developed by the same company that made Conan Exiles, which was a worthwhile purchase at $5 or even $20 for the Early Access but is a horrible buggy mess. They’re just there for a cash grab and it’ll be the same in this case as well.
Yeah I think their alert system sucks or something. Manual checks on that, microcenter, and best buy are probably your best bet for any new releases going forward.
Edit: I bought an Intel one, 250$ or whatever it was, been very happy with it
Not sure where you are in the world, but I got a B580 from b&h in February without issues. Just checked the site once a day when I knew I wanted to buy one.
If you read the vision for global space advancement/leadership as “America left behind and uninvolved” then I guess it kind of makes sense?