My money is on the youthful, blonde, blue-eyed swordsman with the mysterious past who can use magic crystals to perform magic!
Yeah we’re like super serious about privacy so we require you to make you’re account based on a unique, hard to change, personally identifiable, insecure data point and require you to show it to everyone you talk to. The fact that they’re only now starting to test hiding your phone number is beyond asinine. Any arguments signal has about security I might listen to but their concept of privacy is laughable.
It's also in the most recent fanatical BYOB. If you are buying more than one game it makes it cheaper per game.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-leap-year-bundle
If you do system wide blocking by setting an adblocking dns for the whole device it stop them. Check out stuff like nextdns.io. They have a config profile you can set up to do it and if you make an account with them you can configure what plugins you use for blocking… basically it lets you use ublock lists on the dns side.
As far as I know there is no issue with legality. I don't remember the specifics at this point. I believe the psobb setup was a free download for the client and what they did was rewrote the server side so it was their own software. As far as the IP art, music, etc. IDK 100%.
I will say it has been going for nearly 15 years and widely publicized and sega hasn't ever tried to do anything to shut it down. I believe it's in some kind of loop hole where running the server is legal, and using the client is legal for PSO:BB, but for v1, v2, and I & II version you would still need to have a legit copy for maximum legality. So if you just want to play the game... PSO:BB using their modified client / server setup is a good way to do it... plus it looks nice in HD. There are other servers besides schthack, that's just the one I used way back in the day and they're still around.
Step 1. Go to amazon
Step 2. Find product and track down manufacturer.
Step 3. Manufacturer only sells via their official amazon storefront.
Step 4. Repeat forever until the collapse of modern civilization. :(
IDK if these are available directly there but they do ship.
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Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Never give up. Never give in. ```