Previously:

You have a Nintendo account. Under your account is your primary device. You buy a game under your Nintendo account. You can then play on any device that you're signed into. Or any account on your primary device can play the game. (Xbox had this same setup for years.) Working example: you buy Mario Kart. Your friend comes over. You sign in on your friend's Switch, and hand them your switch and they use any other account on the device (including local). You then can both play the same copy/license of Mario Kart.

Now there are two options: virtual game cards, and online licensing. VGC is what all of the noise/confusion is about. Online licensing is very similar to the old method, but they closed the loophole I outlined above.

Just Regular Giuseppe, to my knowledge.

Rising Mildew

This was my first thought upon processing wtf was happening in the pic. I mean, sure, that's neat. But also a nightmare.

Well that is depressing(ly realistic).

Join us at !gundam@ani.social if you haven't already. There might be a dozen of us!

Don't reverse the polarity angry!

Bayonetta 1 got a (limited?) physical release alongside 3.

It's a butphor. Glad you remembered to bring it.

The downvote fairies love this comm. Ignore it.

Maybe there's a reason turnout has been falling that goes farther than "people had a case of the stupids suddenly".

Sorry. I asked for a ballot with a non-genocidal name on the ticket and was told I needed to leave the building.

¯(ツ)/¯

the tow truck thingy went off the bridge

I'm not sure what to be more impressed with: that the tow truck thingy driver had bridge clearance, or that the thingy itself managed to tow a fighter jet up the island.

I got diagnosed with laziness in school.

The word lazy still hurts today.

This was me growing up in the 80s. I wasn't disruptive, and I aced the tests, so obviously I didn't do the homework because I was "lazy." Fuck that noise.

This seems overly complicated, but at least on the surface more permissive than most digital storefronts. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Thanks for the info.

I see she got bored of playing easy mode, and switched to playing lefty. Absolute legend.

I’d imagine payment software ... historically ... not have an unnecessary middle man.

I used to work in the payments industry, and it's middlemen all the way down. Visa/MC/etc. don't deal with small fry. There is an enormous amount of regulatory overhead (which is not a bad thing here, fraud is rampant and it's a cat and mouse game). Unless you're buying from a heavy hitter like Walmart etc., that business is going through at least one layer of transaction processing before it gets to the issuer. The smaller the business/processing traffic, the more likely it is that there's several hops in the chain.

Example: Processor A has direct connections to V/MC (which involves hosting V/MC's hardware in a secured datacenter with multiple redundant network connections, and paying for the privilege). Unless a client does $X in volume, the overhead outweighs the revenue from that client. Clients that process less than $X still need servicing, so Processor B contracts with Processor A (hosting Processor A's hardware, paying for dedicated data lines, etc.), dealing with smaller clients that add up to at least $X so Processor A is happy. Processor B may have a volume floor as well, in which case the chain continues. Each hop takes a percentage, and generally the clients with the lowest volume pay higher fees per transaction. Now add in other card types like Amex and Discover, debit transactions (which require dedicated hardware to decrypt/encrypt the PIN to verify before passing the transaction), EBT, etc. Only the largest processors are going to have direct capability to handle all of that. More typically, mid-sized processors contract with multiple other processors to cover the spectrum... or just not worry about Discover or something.

tl;dr there's a whole lot more to it than just rolling your own point of sale software.

Not just gaming, but the women and children too.

And he wears one as a bullet sponge.