Wow, that's a crazy coincidence! That "patron" system sounds pretty interesting too, seems like a good way to incentivize veterans to help new players. Interesting that I haven't really heard of any more recent games having that (as far as I know).
That sounds amazing, it is good to hear there are still some groups that have kept in contact, even after all that time!
That's awesome when you can organize an in-game group like that to achieve something you couldn't do alone. Sounds like fun times for sure! :)
Great! Yeah it seems like very useful information, hopefully HA will make it more accessible / obvious to access in the future!
It was a server-side block, from Cloudflare (security rule specifically). I'm very familiar with it, having used the same service over a decade. They are able to tweak the overall security level, or specific WAF rules for the endpoint in Cloudflare. They also have analytics that will show them exactly how many cancellation requests would be blocked. The fact that they totally ignored these details in my ticket, is concerning.
Maybe, but it would also be very easy to blame on misconfiguration / mistake. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the behavior itself isn't purposeful, but ignoring / not fixing it is. I've definitely seen such behavior at other companies, where they drag their feet on fixing a bug that is bad for the user, but helping them.
On a related note... I went to cancel a membership a few weeks back, and the site displayed a message "you don't have an active membership to cancel". I thought it was strange, so I checked out the network requests being made, and turned out the cancel API call was getting blocked for "security reasons". Nothing else on the site was blocked for me, just the cancellation endpoint.
I opened a ticket, and it took them nearly 2 weeks to respond, and there was zero acknowledgement on why cancellation would be blocked.
Not sure if it's a purposeful dark pattern, but it sure seems like it!
Worth noting that this should not affect you if you are only using tunnels (no DNS entries / open ports).
Yeah that's exactly what I'm picturing! I think the closest thing I've found is this, but they need to make a more complex version for adults - https://a.co/d/06ENF3j
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