Rubyelf wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:39 am
brettsmods wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:25 am
aweaponofchoice wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:48 pm
I play online through a purchased product and have used this to obtain all my missed star path items and such, no problem here. I don't play online multiplayer visiting others valleys though as I don't see a need until it adds features worth playing, so your mileage may very with that.
I have went back and forth with saves from completley different eras of me playing. I use to play the game back when it was released from a pirated copy to try out before buying but it was so unplayable at the time for me that I stopped..... anyways, my point is that I have an ancient file with nothing attached to a different non steam account and a bunch of random saves throughout, and tried starting a new save from scratch, all the while the moonstones seem to be tied server based and no matter what your save entails or where its from, will showcase the moonstones you have server side.
Loing story short: Moonstones are what they are, they are always server side, as long as you didn't hack/craft/cheat the items - then the moonstones and purchases carry on and over if that makes sense.
Someone chime in and correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is my experience steam and pc pirated wise, not consoles.
Cheers! guys, it feels good to be part of a community again.
Ahh interesting... I guess that means that they would be able to easily see if you have premium items that weren't purchased if once bought they persist through different saves. Not sure if they'll ever act on that though.
So basically the items you add yourself are added in Client side because the game isn't perpetually online, also because the files for the items are kept on your own disk as data. What is saved server side is Moonstones and the purchases themselves properly, so if you purchase something legit, it will always be there even when you restart your game. If you add the item in yourself, it will show up as "Purchased" on your end because it flags as "owned" in your Catalog, but it will not carry over if you decide to restart your game and you will have to put them back in yourself.
Makes sense and seems pretty logical.
I really can't see them stepping in though, it just seems like way to much effort when they already have a billion bugs and plans and moving parts, I don't think they can even keep their shit code together before layering more on top to ban the very very very minimal amount of people willing to go through this. The cost measures to constantly fight this vs the small margin of people doesn't seem feasible. Also, i know they just look at it like, well we got their money already, if the few who can't afford it and/or find our practices unethical want to save some money on the extras then let them go through the headache, not us. Lets just keep adding shit that will rope them back in and that will get money from everyone in the long run....like honestly, as soon as they add another expansion island, I will be the sucker buying it.
I'm ok with purchasing the game and expansions, I'm not ok with paying for the game, expansions, dlc, micro transactions, battle passes, and on top of that disgusting heap of shit for a family friendly oriented game - fucking time gated shenanigans and slow as molases updates features and quality of life features....like honestly, anyone who can defend some of this shit from them is insane. The 1.0 release didn't even have a way to organize menus in any meaningful, logical or time saving ways, and still doesn't. it's frankly despicable and i'm a little disgusted with myself for loving this game and needing the happy tone in my life right now.
Thanks for listening and i'll see myself back to hangin out with donald and having a tantrum lol. Cheers!