Big ol’ cascade effect. Even back in late 2015, they made an update to old-gen release consoles (PS3, 360) that prevented users from loading directly into Online upon booting up the game. If you chose that option; endless load loop and an eventual crash. From that point on until forever, you had to load singleplayer and use the shoddy interface to select an Online game for your multiplayer character.

They have a history of ruining Online with every update. I can only imagine all of the problems that accumulated since then, if it is even playable at all on those consoles.

And whenever they want to drop a site-wide ban for any reason, it’s easier to punish the whole device instead of fixing issues or pretending that most of the ad viewership doesn’t consist of bots.

“Strike!” is seared into my memory and I want it surgically removed

The creatures at the top can’t be human. No one would persist knowing that their wealth is accumulated off of the labor and efforts of multitudes of other people

This is unfortunate, especially the loss of access to half a million texts (and likely more). IA really helped me during plenty of undergrad classes when I needed access to the course text.

Would the “transformative” aspect be valid if IA added a public commentary/note-taking sidebar to their lended books?

It seems that having more facts is indeed directly proportional to having more facts.