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Bottom line is this: you want to engage with the rest of the community? You have to go to the discord, subreddit (ugh), resetera thread, YouTube comments (ugh). The forums and comments here are mostly dead, the former is dominated by the same handful of people vying for their spot in the “community spotlight” (ha) on a dying site.

You want to watch the video content? Go to the YouTube channel. Pretty sure all the legacy content will eventually be moved there too, and the custom CDN will be killed off due to it not generating revenue since they aren’t injecting preroll ads into the content served from there.

Fandom won’t “fix” or improve this site. They share engineering teams across all their properties and this one is at the bottom of the priority list.

Maybe if the site was full of affiliate link-ridden SEO garbage articles that generated revenue they’d bother a little more.

Take a break. From games, games media, and the discourse. You’ll feel reinvigorated to play games after a while. Spending too much time with a single thing is never good.

That game you own that you want to play some day? You won’t. I can guarantee this with almost certainty.

It’s like how people want to keep things because someday they might need it. Just in our case it’s mostly digital and doesn’t take up physical space.

If you have a backlog that you cannot stop adding to, you are looking to get a dopamine hit from purchasing things rather than enjoying them. It’s a classic case of compulsive buying disorder.

@the_kempire: Jan explained on Twitter:

https://x.com/_janjerome/status/1734264092620399075?s=20

Is it variety if it’s just another open world “littered with map icons” ubi game?

@barthez:

https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/secrets-inside_151419

Microsoft has also asked people to use the “Xbox Report a Problem app” whenever this happens to them so they can get logs and maybe trace the root cause. Whenever it happens to me I do that.