Is this due to ram?

Mostly not enough supply for the demand and scalpers. Mine is also with an "estimated order availability: 2027" with a reservation day of May 16

I wonder if this is some kind of prisoners dilemma for society and individual choice.

I remember joke “you will own nothing and will be happy”, it is less of a joke now.

It's from a 2016 essay. I'm not sure it was ever only a joke. I didn't even perceive it as a joke back then (unless you wanted to joke about companies being knobheads). It was already clear by then that that was the direction they wanted to go.

Adobe Creative Cloud became the only option for new Adobe software in 2013, 3 years before that essay. Sure, Adobe is on the forefront of being knobheads, but still.

I don't think it was ever a joke?

“We each had to take turns scanning it” - seriously?

Maybe it is done to pump their stock with low effort? It seems that way for many companies.

Isn’t it similar to “Just be yourself”? But first you need all the hard work to get to that level so that you can just be yourself. What is obvious to me may have come as a lot of experience and focus in the past.

Self driving cars can’t come soon enough. Can’t believe there is debate between Waymo tesla and others while completely missing a goal.

They are 100% abusing until proven otherwise. Naive to think otherwise.

One can still be a billionaire and not use shady tactics.

unfortunately, not that straightforward in valve's case.

they created a nasty gambling system with their loot boxes that exists outside controlled casino environments and which impacts young adults a lot.

The systems in Counter Strike are some of the least abusive in all of gaming.

Open up Roblox and see the sheer amount of loot boxes via Robux with Pay 2 Win items, battle passes, daily rewards, etc.

Counter Strike meanwhile has item skins which don't impact the game. They aren't more OP, in fact, most of the time they give you a disadvantage.

Counter Strike is an 18+ game. Kids shouldn't be on this anyways.

Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it right. It's also possible to not have loot boxes at all.

The "lesser" of 2 evils here isnt practicing evil?

Loot boxes are, by any and all definitions, evil. It’s gambling. Worse even, it’s gambling with real money over digital ephemera.

Loot boxes are not a fun mechanic. Loot boxes are not designed to entertain you or give you good value for your money. Loot boxes only exist to make you gamble with your money over something that could easily be sold as a single purchase item, or better yet, be rewarded in-game. Simple as that. It’s a gambling scheme. Always has been. Always will be.

Gambling is a game mechanic. It can be evil. But if its restricted to non game affecting items for people over the age of 18 it isnt evil. Its completely optional. I remember playing CS:GO and ignoring the loot boxes until fridays in the afternoon when my mate would come online and we would crack a couple together and put our new stickers on our guns.

To clarify, the loot boxes in Roblox are game specific. The platform itself just has the catalog where you buy stuff directly

But still, Roblox should do a better job regulating the games on its platform

For at least a short while. I'm not sure it's a stable configuration.

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