me today
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>buy game and open
>wowzers buddy you downloaded an app from another store (because the stupid thing is flagged as incompatible for my phone), download it from google play to get it working (which I fucking can't because the thing is flagged as incompatible)
>huh, this hasn't happened before, did google roll some new "feature"? I guess I can just fucking edit the installer app metadata
>but let me check other games I downloaded from another store to bypass compatibility nonsens (inb4 get a new phone, some of those are because the app is too old) and I know were working
>same problem
>check a game I downloaded from the playstore after my play pass trial period was over (over 6 months ago and the game is free) and was also working ok
>wowzers buddy, you gotta redownload this game from the playstore even though it's a free game
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>let me check a game I bought and was working
>wowzers buddy, you gotta buy this game to continue playing it
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>check a completely free game that has nothing to do with the play pass is compatible, downloaded from the playstore and was working
>wowzers buddy, you gotta download this game from the play store
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>try opening a game that is offline while I'm offline
>wowzers buddy, it looks like you're offline you gotta connect to the internet (probably so they can run whatever stupid fucking check they're making for the "1st time" you open an app, even though it isn't the first time I'm opening the app)
>this has to be something recent, try uninstalling the google app store updates
>works
>so now I'd have to force google play store to not update anymore? Fucking hell
>let's try a more direct solution
>edit the metadata for the ones that aren't compatible and uninstall and redownload the other ones
>works
>alright, now let's try running a cleaner on the system to see how permanent this solution is
>problems come back
I'm fucking having an aneurysm at this point, I think I'm gonna fucking try microg because my fucking options are stop the playstore from updating or use the gbox emulation.
*AHEM*
FUCK GOOGLE FUCK GOOGLE FUCK GOOGLE FUCK GOOGLE