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They are doing their jobs. but with limited manpower they have chosen not to stretch themselves even thinner by physically chasing a phone. As the article says, they try to be smarter about it.

Location isn’t that accurate, the phone was probably just traded in a car or in the street.

So the police get a call from the phone owner “yeah my phone location is on X street”, the police get down there, then what? Let’s say it was in a house, it’s rows of houses in London, do they knock on every door there and ask “hey have you stolen a phone?” in hopes the guy admits it? It could have been traded already so a description of someone might not be good enough.

I just read the whole article and it just re-iterates what I have just said. They recover a small amount of the phones because of how quick they move them after they have been stolen. It even says that the criminals “wrap stolen phones in tinfoil to block its signal”.

It’s easy to sit in your chair and say “just go over there and arrest them”, without even taking a moment to understand the logistics of tackling it.

Who is to say it was at an address and not just sold/handed off in the street? They don’t just take the phones to a house and pile them up, they will be sold on through fences rapidly and if they can’t reset them to resell to someone, they get sold for parts (hence why this one ended up in China).

With infinite budget sure, worth a shot, but it would cost a lot more than the price of the phone to track it down.

Realistically speaking, there isn’t enough personel or funds, so it isn’t worth attempting to chase the phone down. These phones move fast through fences, they aren’t just taken to one address and left there. The criminals could and probably do have ‘faraday bags’ to block signals from phones as they move them, only ever taken out to sell them along.

All the police can do is record any data they do get and compile it into a larger investigation with the hopes of attacking the head of the snake (but what even is that?).

To be fair, what are they supposed to do? The phone will be handed off a bunch of times within hours of it being stolen. You are not getting your phone back unless the thieves are caught in the act.

Give it another 8 years of development Sony, maybe it’ll be worth playing that time around.

Crazy how people wanna gloss over issues just because they like something generally. I’ll never understand why people wouldn’t want a better product. Absolutely mental take too there at the end. Have a good one.

Of course, if you got lucky you missed bugs but there were still a lot of poorly made systems that bled over from DOS2 that they didn’t bother to update. With the size of the patch notes following release, some having a good experience isn’t really a counter-point.

As I said though, they could have used early access better because it definitely wasn’t ready, it was passable (well ignoring game-breaking bugs a lot of people ran into to). And why would you be opposed to a game being developed a bit longer if it means a better experience for all?

Me and my friends had an horrendous experience, with bugs and issues you couldn’t possibly miss. There was a whole bunch of QoL needed and the fact the immediate follow up patches were fucking huge just shows. Sure it’s a big game, but it was dysfunctional in places and QA is more important in a game where you can invest 100 hours just for a quest to be softlocked in the final act and effectively kill the whole playthrough.

It could have sat in the oven for another year and released in a much more respectable state with more of their intended content. I would recommend anyone the game now (or maybe I’d tell them to wait a bit more while they add more story). It was absolutely released too early. If they didn’t want to pay for testing, they could have dropped more of the game in early access first before officially releasing it.

Let’s not kid ourselves, Baldurs Gate 3 was far from polished and with all this content they are adding, definitely not finished either.

I get people love the game, so do I, but I am not going to ignore it’s problems. Bringing attention to issues only helps improve matters instead of pretenting they don’t exist because it’s your favourite game.

They must be getting close to finishing this game!

This attitude is how we got here, just let people have fun on the internet, not everything has to grow to be a replacement of something else. If people self host some streams for a few months and had fun, it was worth it.

People stream for fun, not just for money. If you start streaming with the intention of it becoming a career, you are doing it wrong.

Encouraging the use of alternative sites is the only way alternative sites grow, dismissing them because ‘X site is already bigger, so theres no point’ is supporting the “monopoly” problem.

Did you know, we used to visits hundreds of sites on the internet, it’s only the last 10-15 years that corporations have managed to consolodate it.

“Oh come on, you know you want the shiny, it’s only $60!”

Yes, but the market is still designed to make Valve money and they are using that as a marketing tool to entice you in. The more desirable skins are a lot more expensive than they would be in Fortnite or whatever. The upside is that you can sell and trade them, so you can actually recoup at least 85% of the value (or more), the downside being that the money stays in Valve’s ecosystem. Ignoring 3rd-party markets here, where you can risk selling for real money.

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Yeah, it’s your money, spend it how you want (but please stop buying skins). It’s a tough one, I guess we are stuck with it though unless a major attitude shift happens suddenly. I think a lot of people forgot or never experienced games before MTX were rampant, so they literally don’t know any better.

That’s crazy yeah, there’s CS skins these days going for tens of thousands. I heard there was an AK sold for over a million, whether or not that was true I don’t know, but the fact I think it could be really says a lot about the current state of video games.

Respect to him.

Actually EA popularised that with FIFA Ultimate Team and pack opening. TF2 is very very small in comparison. After FUTs success, the loot box trend really set off.

At least I can sell my TF2 hats.

But the fact people spend $60 on a skin in a game, for just one character or weapon, is absolutely fucking insane. Not that I agree with any paid game selling cosmetics for any price.