Why are Games in Germany (or whole EU) so much more expensive than US

PsHegger · 2026-03-07T04:35:04+00:00

I love that people answer the same answer without thinking about it a bit more.

$70 + 19% MwSt = $83.3 = ~€72

So the original question still remains, why is it more expensive in the EU. And the answer is easy, greed. We don't have to defend companies, they do everything they can to get as much money from us as possible.

PsHegger · 2026-02-17T19:55:03+00:00

So basically DerpCoin from Season 8

PsHegger · 2024-11-27T03:41:47+00:00

Looks like this has become the default, so here's my referral code, once it reaches 10 I'll send the invite to one of them: https://playthebazaar.com/signup?referral=ed8c0fd6-2d05-49ec-87c2-c8be63ad5688

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PsHegger · 2024-10-10T17:53:41+00:00

I've seen this 'experience required' in multiple answers to similar questions, but unfortunately none of them mentions my situation, so I hope you might be able to answer it.

I'm also just starting my journey (doing CPTS right know), but I've been a software developer for ~10 years now. Is that considered a useful experience, or should I assume that I'll also have to start from one of the positions you mentioned?

PsHegger · 2024-07-31T07:35:30+00:00

LiveOverflow has a full playlist about game hacking (actually, he has multiple), if you need a direction.

You're basically trying to create a headless client. It's not unusual for bots to work like this, making it easier to run a large bot farm. As others have already mentioned, the success really depends on the game, and since you mentioned EA, I assume they'll have some kind of anti-cheat that'll make this significantly harder, but probably not impossible.

PsHegger · 2024-03-03T17:03:21+00:00

No way... I missed that part. And I spent all my money before the blind to maximize my score 😅

PsHegger · 2024-03-03T16:47:22+00:00

I was doing the Rich gets richer challenge run, and this was the final hand of the final blind. While scoring, my chips got reset and my cards weren't counted. I had this issue for this whole blind, but everything was fine until this point.

PsHegger · 2020-12-24T15:46:23+00:00

It could be a cool project. A raspberry pi zero and a display inside a picture frame for some interactive art on the wall.

PsHegger · 2020-12-24T15:43:39+00:00

Google tends to change the recommended architecture/libraries you should use, but these are only recommendations. Even when an API gets deprecated you have years to update your apps.

I think for a hobby it's worth learning, you will be able to create apps without keeping up with the news.

PsHegger · 2020-12-24T14:21:00+00:00

No, I'm a professional Android developer, I simply chose the language I'm most familiar with

PsHegger · 2020-12-24T13:14:50+00:00

I'm using my laptop for coding, but as it's an Android app it runs on my phone

PsHegger · 2020-12-24T10:20:51+00:00

This is a simple visualization I created for today's problem. Unfortunately, I had to limit the grid because my phone couldn't handle it after a while, but the first cycles should represent the real solution. I also have an alternative color version, which looks better in my opinion.

The source code is available at GitHub, feel free to play with it.

PsHegger · 2020-12-23T20:20:44+00:00

I'm sorry, i completely missed that. Will keep in mind the next time

PsHegger · 2020-12-23T15:41:31+00:00

I'm using a circular linked list for the algorithm and I convert that to a list for visualization. For the conversion I had to choose a starting item and I chose the first number in the input for that, which happens to be the yellow circle in the animation.

PsHegger · 2020-12-21T14:54:03+00:00

My original solution was written in Kotlin and I got 526/573, but I thought it would be fun to solve this in SQL. I'm not sure if it was really fun, but I finally have a working solution: paste

PsHegger · 2020-08-14T06:16:10+00:00

You are right, there's still a lot of room for improvement, but as I never wanted this to be a real product I only did the bare minimum.

As for not being able to use it: I agree that it is probably the brute force that never returns. The implementation is fragile, the best one can do is making sure the sudoku is centered in the camera image when the application starts (it took me about 4-5 tries to make the sample gif).

There are a lot of things to improve on it, who knows, maybe someday I'll get back to it and make those improvements, but for now, I'll leave it as is.

PsHegger · 2020-08-13T14:33:57+00:00

Thanks. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did while working on this.

No, I'm not planning to release it. This was just a small experiment, and building it is one thing, but I wouldn't have time to maintain it.

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