For those into retro games and into collecting and wondering why some prices have become insane, this is an interesting watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A. I am thankful I don't have the need to collect sealed copies and don't care for gradings or anything like that. But this does suck.
I do feel US prices are waaay worse than EU (PAL) prices though. 3DS prices, for example, have become wild in the US. But over here I feel it is still all relatively affordable.
(I don't really collect, but I do have a list of games I want to own physical. And in some cases, such as the DS and 3DS, it is likely that some games will officially only have physical releases).
Started playing Apex Legends again, it's season 10 and I haven't played since season 2 started. I'm sooo bad 
but I don't think I've run into a cheater so at least I feel like I'm legit competing and not just getting pissed off like I had been with COD.
I feel like I have been seeing a lot of articles on cheating problems for Apex as well, but since I tend to prefer offline or PvE coop games, I thankfully don't run into cheaters that affect me that much.
I do feel the scope of cheating has gotten a bit out of hand in online games lately. I read that CoD Warzone removed like 500000 cheaters in about a year. And apparently it still is a huge problem despite half a million bans. That is just nuts. And I feel a lot of more subtle methods go undetected, as the controller add ons you mentioned a while back, for example.
My understanding is cheating does happen in Apex, but they have an anti-cheat in the game so it's not nearly as bad as COD. The COD ban waves do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It's a free game, they ban the account not the hardware, so the cheaters just create a new account. It's kind of sad that one of the big features they are advertising for the next COD is an anti-cheat. But it's like.... why not just implement it now and not wait until November? We all know the reason... to sell the new game, but still, it would be great to do something positive for the community after 1.5 years of cheaters and only getting worse.
It's also really sad that it's come to the point where such a significant amount of the player base will cheat to win. I can't help but feel like this is some sort of sign of where our society has come. That winning at all costs is more important than actually learning and gaining skill. I don't even know how it's fun to cheat. Maybe for a game or two just to piss people off, but after that? Where's the pleasure of making a crazy skilled play or winning a undermanned battle? I have some very strong emotions against cheating and it goes beyond just in video games.
I don't understand the appeal either.
Even in singleplayer games cheats make the achievements feel diminished (though I do use save states in old retro games, which tend to be short games made long because you need to restart the game if you die too much).
On consoles a ban at least have a bit more heft due to the closed ecosystem. But even there the subtle methods seem to have become much more popular (and probably near indistinguishable from extremely skilled players). I find it highly suspect when a gun stays dead center when watching a kill cam, especially with the use of controllers.
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