Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191023232146

Never really used WAP fully, only basic SMS services if I had some prepaid leftover. Always great when they just picked a random news article for you to read, am I glad that's dead. Mostly MSN here and just regular SMS for phones. For some reason Blackberrys became really popular, probably because of that built-in messaging feature they had (and keyboard). Also the times where you regularly visited more than 4 sites a day. They were probably around, just not as centralized (or on the internet). Worst part is that most of the internet is an echo-chamber, so those people can find other just like them. Ultimately ignoring them is the best, helps that I'm not really into a community I guess. Allows me to leave for a while if it gets ruined by 'em. And yeah, that's where the posts come from. I doubt many people still use it, cool archive though. They always got paid off, I guess it just wasn't as important back then. It helps that many of the big players had their own carefully curated magazines, so ultimately if some news source stepped out of line it wouldn't be a big deal. Now most of the websites depend on publishers for free review copies and they depend on the reviews for ad revenue and a nice amount of clicks so that they hopefully can get sponsored by a publisher. The agenda part mainly comes from their social media presence I guess, though they probably can't help themselves from writing it in their reviews. I don't think the current SPORTS devs now how to develop a new feature, that expertise went out of the window when they found out ultimate team (essentially a lootbox gamemode) prints money. That dependency on publishers also shows here, a publisher can just embargo the media's reviews until the game's been out for a day.

Yeah, again I haven't had a CD game delivered yet. I assume it'll also just be disc, customs doesn't care if it's a game just if it's a CD. Guess it saves them work. I'm sure there's some changes based on weight, but most of the time it's a flat fee. You'd probably have to get something that'll only fit into an actual truck for it to get pricier and at that point the item itself is probably pricier as well. I guess knowing that it's left Japan counts for something, otherwise it's not much better than no tracking.

Probably, I'm guessin they'll stick to their current ways though. It's probably a legal mess to buy possibly illegal goods for someone without verifying.