Makes no difference to me. I don't mind them either way, but considering how they do nothing to effect the game i would say keep them. If anything they serve a purpose of statistics and possibly how far you are into a game. Considering i have never played a game with mods they are never disabled for me either. Ive been there when they started which i think was the year after the PS3 launched so 2007 or 2008 when the update came to introduce them. Its pretty cool seeing almost 20 years worth of that data on what i did and in what year i did it.
I did the same thing even on my PS5. Saved the file like normal which saved to the cloud, then i disabled cloud saving and proceeded to do everything else off that save to get each ending and then copy that cloud save back down overriding my local save. I was shocked it worked so well. I think i ran into 1 issue with getting all the weapons since 1 could not be obtained again in the first play through but i had my friend join my game and he gave me the weapon and laughed when we realized it worked. I love that i not only beat that game but also got every achievement, so i guess that means i do enjoy them.
This is all about the data collected. Despite the article glazing over this like trusting them to do the right thing and your data is safe and not used. There's no other reason for this outside that. It will make a lot of people rich and everyone will have more information and thats the only reason for this. Im still trying to figure out how this protects anyone anymore than before.
Thankfully i still live in a state thats good and as far as i know it's not even talked about. If it does happen it will probably force me to finally use a VPN and use a fake picture and info if i even choose to use whatever it is that requests this crap.
I know I wouldn't trust us either, but I do wonder what chances we have to negotiate if and when trump and republican are not president again. I feel like these last 10 years have permanently damaged any reason for anyone to listen but i do hope the wars can stop.
The biggest gambler i know is a VP in accounting. He has been since I met him right outside of college. If anything he does make a lot more reasonable bets and finds loopholes to make the best of his bets. The thing is he keeps a spreasheet for the year to track what he spends and honestly he is almost always ahead by a lot or sometimes break even or slightly under. I have never seen him actually lose so he is a terrible example of having a gambling addiction lol. We all say he is one of the luckiest people we know which also stems from the fact that when we play poker he will almost always hit the statistically low percentage card needed to win and it's frustrating to say the least.
Once we created standards to create everything we see today it became to expensive to invest in alternative home grown solutions. Sadly with the focus of maximizing profit over innovation most ideas just revolve around the existing infrastructure in place to do what they want. I hate it as well and everything feels very stagnant.
I'll have plenty of time to try it work, but I stop at 11 for personal use... long time coming but them putting a date on 12 means I now have my date to get off Windows altogether.
Since i follow a lot of big games i normally can figure out what i would like since i am easy to please. I can only think of one game that i picked up that got me hooked and surprised me which was Cat Quest. I probably am thinking about it because im now playing the 3rd one which was free on psn for members.
I have done this for years now and seen no problems. I have a Lenovo from my job and it can use and 85 watt charger for steady charging but my 4 bank phone charger is a 100 watt charger with the highest port charging at 65 watt if only 1 device is plugged in. It does fine with this, but i do get the message in windows stating slow charge. I only use this on trips to avoid taking more things than i have to.
Honestly, if he isn't picked they are just losing money on this.