Beatmania IIDX 28 Bistrover's Controversial Video Saving Feature?

Really? Charging players a fee to video capture in video games? Is there a place where you can book a video filming session to get yourself filmed? Sure, holding a phone or camera alone will not look professional enough that such professional video filming equipment will be needed there and you'll need to pay a fee for a session like that and then you can do whatever you want there while you're being filmed.

Imagination-aside, there's a understanding that filming in the arcades is not allowed and prior to Konami planning this feature, many arcades in Japan and Korea have the opportunity to allow the players to screen capture whatever game they've played. I don't know if that will cost additional money or not. In case of Konami's new plan, this feature is useful for players to video capture the game in the arcades provided that they're playing the game on the Lightning Model cabinet running Beatmania IIDX 28. I do get the feeling that the E-Amusement Pass and E-Amusement account are needed for this and the video capture feature charges players a credit-per-song/quarter-per-song. It's basically a Pay-To-Showoff method besides the Pay-To-Print feature Konami had implemented in various modern arcade games.

Once the video is saved to the server at the price of another quarter, you can eventually download it to your computer or phone so you can post it to video sharing site or social media. The difference is that you won't see the Paseli and Credit counters when compared to standard video capture method that shows everything.

So it shows that Konami has regards for profits by charging players additional credits for various features in arcade games including paid loot-box features as if the Mobile and Pachinko businesses didn't anger people enough. Then again, there were recent comebacks starting with Super Bomberman R on consoles and PC but there were other controversies Konami stirred like charging players additional fees for the save slots in Metal Gear Survive, a new medal game that takes place in a casino with some Virtual YouTuber-like characters and of course, Armored Princess Battle Conductor which has the shady loot-box feature.

Man, imagine being a shill enough to put in additional quarters for such greedy features in arcade games today and especially if you want to show off your Beatmania IIDX skills. This is it, the first gaming controversy Konami stirred of this year!

Whatapp's New Controversial Privacy Policy Change (Part Two)

Many users had migrated to Telegram or Signal although those alternatives are likely to be different story when it comes to essential communication like you'll be told to use Whatsapp instead of the alternative text messaging tools as the other users don't know what they are or maybe one alternative tool isn't widely used in general. The same may go with Zoom video conferencing tool for both business and school and to use the alternative instead of Zoom for more secure video conferencing depends on whichever company you work at. If the company chooses other video conferencing tool instead of Zoom, that's the good thing. But what about personal communication through text messaging? Will you stick back to Whatsapp or use the alternative for that?

There were additional news like Telegram having a migration feature that allows you to import your Whatsapp chats to it. Even various organizations and groups have their Telegram channel you can join although some Telegram group channels may seem questionable to me. Also, the new Privacy Policy change is set to take effect in May after the backlash although it will affect businesses, not end users and even then, many users had already migrated to Telegram or Signal.

Misunderstanding or not, it will not be easy to get yourself convinced and believe that it's a misunderstanding when a controversy like this already occurred. Other controversies I had discovered with the word, misunderstanding, involved included the one regarding obscene Netflix movie, Cu***s, and the one regarding the Playstation 5 scalpers playing victim. How are THOSE controversies considered the misunderstandings when they are fishy stuffs? And there are still IDIOTS falling into the on-going shadiness by mis-believing that it's a misunderstanding! I'm not going to fall for that trick whether it's this controversy or the other.

Lastly, it's not the first time Facebook had caused a controversy like this. There were previous controversies when it comes to privacy violation by a tech company and especially that users were forced to make use of Facebook account for Oculus VR headsets. The worse thing is that Facebook had the recent audacity to lash out on the new privacy controls Apple implemented on IOS 14 as well as to announce the upcoming smartwatch that will come out next year to compete with Apple Watch. To Facebook, it's more about profit than privacy respect when it comes to IOS 14 with its new privacy controls.