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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends players dove headfirst into the Christmas spirit yesterday as the Raiders event brought lashings of festive cheer to the game. Despite the fact that the piratical theme of the event fits new map Storm Point and its tropical aesthetic perfectly, the nautical cosmetics accompany a snowy makeover for the lobby and the returning Winter Express event comes comp🔥lete with snowman wallpaper and more Christmas trees than a Nordic forest.
Aside from the limited time mode, the biggest pull of the Raiders event is cosmetics. Buying every loot tick will set you back a minimum of 700 Apex Coins and the cheapest way to unlock all of them - and therefore unlocking the coveted Wattson heirloom - will set you back just shy of £130. So, it’s understandable that players were upset when th🌳eir cosmetic rewards were taken away from them without so much as a word 𝕴from developer Respawn.
TheGamer has seen proof from numerous players that they received unreleased cosmetics from the event packs that they opened. These cosmetics are believed to have been added in yesterday’s upd🌺ate for an upcoming, unannounced event. Most of these players opened packs as soon as the event began, and the unreleased cosme♓tics replaced skins and trackers from the Raiders event which are now completely unavailable to affected players.
However, Respawn quickly removed the unannounced cosmetics from the game - including from the inventories of players who had already unlockಞed them. At present it’s unclear whether or not these players will receive the skins and trackers again when the appropriate event begins. Respawn did no𝄹t respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
Whatever happens, this mistake invites a pertinent conversation about digital ownership. Players have paid actual, real-life money for digital products. It doesn’t matter whether the products were earned through “surprise mechanicജs,” or that the items were previously unannounced - these items were paid for and have since been removed from the buyers’ inventories. Could this happen with other skins? Do players just rent the cosmetic items they buy?
If you buy a ra💖re Pokemon card, for instance, you have the physical object. It may fluctuate in value, you may spill your coffee on it and ruin it, but you have it forever. Now, before you go all Ghost Recon Breakpoint on me, NFTs are not the answer. Whatever your thoughts on cryptocurrency or live service games, it’s unreasonable to believe that any current game will last forever. Developers won’t upd♒ate these games forever - Ghost Recon, Apex, or any other game - and you can’t expect developers of a completely different game to code and implement your planet-destroying weapon just because you have proof of ownership.
Issues of digital ownership aren’t limited to games: you don’t own any songs you buy outright on iTunes, let alone stream on Spotify or Apple Music. Amazon recently by Geor꧃ge Orwell from its Kindle Store and every device that had the novel downloaded when it realised it didn’t have the rights to be selling it. Farmers with were told by the company that they didn’t outright own the vehicles they had bought, as the company still owned the software that made them run and would not allow purchasers to modify the code in order to repair mechanical issues.
We’re known as the Subscription Generation for a reason, but what happens when services revoke your paid-for goods? What rights do you have to Rage Against The Machine’s latest album or Revenant’s Blackbeard skin? Ultimat𝐆ely, Respawn&rsq𒉰uo;s decision to remove cosmetics from players’ libraries shows that we don’t truly own any of the items in our in-game inventories, despite many players spending plenty of hard-earned cash on cosmetics.
We are in an era of technological feudalism, in which we vo🔜luntarily pay fees to hire pixels that make our characters preꦯttier - characters that we can’t even see in first-person shooters like Apex Legends. Whether you’re paying for songs from Apple, books from Amazon, or cosmetics from Apex Legends, the items you buy are impermanent and your permission to listen, read, or wear them could be revoked at a moment’s notice.