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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They put back an email based 2fa thing again if you login but no authenticator. (And for any people who had leaked passwords they had reused, I think they might have lost their accounts already).

They also in a brilliant move messed up the database transfer, you cannot remove your payment data without first giving them your address again. But, this also has another consequence, you cannot pay for things without updating this information. This means anybody who doesn't do this for their monthly subscription service will be automatically cancelled (or they break their tax declarations). And this also means that they will have a leftover stock of those monthly keys for next month (and perhaps the one after), I assume a lot of people will also cancel and this will also cause them to have an additional unused stock. (they don't just get a key on demand, nor can they use the ones from the store for some reason (I have keys in 'sorry we will get more soon' hell which they still sold on the store, it is really weird).

I doubt this will stop any hackers however, as they can just input any random address and then grab some keys for resale (or grab any keys which were not claimed yet, I so far had 40 I had not used which I now have).

What an amazing mess.

Edit: Just saw another thing. If you are an active choice member you get a store discount, you can allocate part of that discount to go to charity. Or well, you could. It set mine to 0% charity and there is no option to change it.

They did however fix some small things, like 'new releases' no longer shows games from 2022, 'preorder' no longer has games from 2018. (Wait, it still has "days gone", released in 2021). It also still has games which simply have no prices at all. A store which sells things you cannot buy.