My main Fediverse profile is at @hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social
The “scraping” they are claiming may be coming from inside the house, so to speak, as it appears they are DDoSing themselves.
Ironically, if they had just outlined their eventual plan for what they would do in the event that the service was ever shut down I think more people would have been willing to try it. At least some portion of potential users chose not to use the service because they thought it likely Stadia would eventually get shut down and the money they spent on those games would just be lost. But at the end of the service, the users basically got refunded for everything.
From the link:
Yes, but: A Microsoft representative told Axios that the company cannot legally share the email’s contents, but that it was sent by Booty in 2019.
That would mean that whatever Booty may have said about Xbox trying to beat PlayStation preceded the company’s early 2022 bid to buy Activision Blizzard.
I can’t promise that we’ll have people down to play those specific games immediately (though I do know we have a couple Rocket League players), I welcome you to check out TheAdultGamer.com. We’re a gaming community that has been around in some form or another since 2005. We currently primarily live on a Discord server.
Most of the supposed benefits of blockchain in gaming would either never actually be realized due to the infeasibility, or would be just as easily implemented using alternative, pre-existing methods.