That’s good to know, thanks! Your approach sounds pretty good. I think I’ll give that a go when I get there.

I found it quite satisfying! I was curious how that part of the plot was going to play out while the the bit with the other antagonist was wrapping up. I think they did a great job delivering the sense of two combatants pushing themselves to and beyond their limits (I feel like by the time someone is at a point where they know who I’m referring to, they’ll know something like that is going to happen so doesn’t feel like a spoiler). And it was a fun fight besides.

I’m curious to see what they do in Dawntrail. There was definitely a strong sense of them trying to wrap everything up.

I’m not planning on running any of the new jobs through that expansion, no. I’m running PLD and SCH right now and splitting that quest xp. And enjoying both so I’ll stick with that for the time being!

Edit: Decided something I put in might be a bit of a spoiler. Changed to “other antagonist”.

Just finished the Endwalker MSQ. (Not including patch content)

This sums it up. I’m too lazy and there’s too little incentive.

I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.

Apology not needed.

I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).

A small number of informed users won’t disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I’m not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.

I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it’s more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.

Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol’ “vote with money” if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.

My suggestion just changes your threat model, so may not be a good one based on your wants.

Perhaps consolidate systems? Managing less devices = less points of failure. But adds the risk of any given failure being more severe.