Microsoft extended the deadline multiple times before they finally went through with it. As for companies doing their research before getting rid of products they no longer wish to support, yeah it's not likely to happen because most are out of touch with their consumers and only respond to dollar signs.
Pretty wise to do this on the holidays. The best sales do tend to come around Christmas.
That's totally acceptable if that's how you want to approach it.
That's pretty relatable but if you have PayPal, there are a few ways where you can make some "beer money" so that you can fund your hobbies.
With hobbies like gaming, unless you're planning to do some crazy PC build or buying a bunch of new stuff at once to overhaul your gaming setup, it isn't really that expensive. Cars costs way more especially when modding you car for the track and can easily run into thousands of dollars per year.
Totally relatable - I find that in most of those instance, I normally turn it down low enough to hear them clearly. On the other hand, when I'm playing alone, depending on the game, it may be cranked pretty high.
Exactly my point about reflect in earlier games - Even in Final Fantasy Record Keeper, I hardly ever use it because it's such a burden because it uses the old version of reflect. In FF12 onwards, it's pretty useful as @Crazycrab says.
You're mostly right but we know they'll try this again in the near future but they'll be much more calculative about it. I'll give them a pass this time but I'm still vigilant.
Microsoft got shafted for many years because of that Kinetics stuff so they learned their lesson but with the decisions I've seen Sony has been making, it really concerns me.