eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

Double fucking whammy: The launcher overrides the use of Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Z in the credential fields?

Why?

SquareEnix, it's fucking 2019.

It is almost as if it was fundamentally designed to discourage good password management habits in the first place to sell their proprietary 2fa token instead of allowing you to use your own TOTP.

The password change form on SquareEnix's Account Management site has JavaScript that disables pasting into the "Re-enter your password" field by checking if the combination Ctrl+V was pressed on keydown.

This does not give me confidence.

chaos weigns uwu

Maybe I should just stop playing online games whose monetisation rests on my continued time investment and sunk cost fallacy.

despondent about video game

oh yeah, I guess I'll have to buy shadowbringers at the end of the stormblood msq so I don't throw away all the free exp from post-sb story.

buh. I really don't think I care enough. surely something can convince me this is worth the trouble.

it really does feel like xiv fell into the same trap xi did where they just abjectly refuse to change anything about the basic foundations of the game for its entire lifespan. and that is so sad, because 2.0-3.0 was a fresh breath of air.

stormblood's writing is a mess. honestly i am worried about going back and looked at the rest of this game's writing.

wait, so everyone was up in arms about not blocking gab's domains in a client, but now there's people hand-wringing about blocking them at the s2s federation level?

fucking make up your goddamn minds y'all

bard is literally the best it's ever been in shb and yet this is just so fucking tiring to play man

i think what's even making the voice acted scenes so frustrating is that most of the characters never change intonation at all. in moments where it feels like Hien should be shouting, he's exactly the same as ever.

i am sincerely questioning why i resubbed to a game i used to love

the amount of "run for 5 minutes, read a few lines of dialogue that say nothing meaningful, run for another 5 minutes, watch a cutscene with some nice voices but still nothing of substance" in stormblood should have been figured out by the end of heavensward but they seem hellbent on boring me to fucking tears with this shit just to get to the "good parts"

they are really going to have to work 4.x main scenario on me to convince me to even fucking bother with shadowbringers because i am so, fucking, tired of the amount of time-wasting nonsense this game pulls on me