Dauntless, one of Epic’s first exclusives is shutting down on May 29th. An (ironic) post about which was shared here on Steam, if you want to see it
I am a bit sad for what could have been. But I am not surprised at all.
The game basically always stagnated and content came way to slow. Cosmetics and the battle pass were updated regularly though. Anyway since the game was dying, they brought an “big rework” and brought the game, previously only available on Epic, to Steam.
The big rework changed most of the game into a grindfest/paywall, especially for new players. Old players were shafted as in weapons, builds, armour they spend time grinding for was removed from them to enable a “fresh start”.
That obviously did not turn out well with new and old players. And now they are going to the live service game graveyard. Anyway fuck Phoenix Labs (and more specifically Forte Labs, a bunch of cryptocurrency twats who bought the former studio), another company blacklisted and I will never buy anything from again.
Messenger sind halt aus Security Sicht gar nicht so einfach. Signal ist zwar US based, aber derzeit der einzige Messenger den man den meisten Leuten, die Sicherheit möchten, halbwegs bedenkenlos in die Hand drücken kann.
Hier zum Beispiel ein (englischer) Blogbeitrag eines (Furry) Sicherheitsforschers zu Threema:
https://soatok.blog/2021/11/05/threema-three-strikes-youre-out/
Ist natürlich jetzt auch schon 4 Jahre her, müsste man gucken, ob sich Threema seitdem gebessert hat.