It’s hard to think about a 2nd and 3rd game, but the number 1 game that has influenced my life is WoW. As bad as it is nowadays, and has been for a while I still can’t really imagine not playing this game in some way. I’ve had an active subscription for probably 95% of the time for the last 14 years, and the release of classic only ignited my love for this version of WoW. I even stuck to Era when servers transitioned to TBC because I wanted to play classic so badly I put up with playing on a server that had like 2 guilds total in the beginning.

Though I started playing FF14 a couple months ago, and while some issues are similar to retail it seems a lot more like it has old-school communities. Maybe I’ll get used to the (imo inferior) PvE design, which is the main reason I don’t see it as my new main game yet.

Other than that maybe Portal (1 & 2), H1Z1 or og MW2 I guess, just for how fondly I look back to the time when I played them.

SMS support

Completely irrelevant to any point you made previously.

There were desires to open up the platform prior

This article from Moxie himself in 2016 shows they had no intention of expanding/implementing federation at all. This was way before the current President took over.

hopping on a shitty bandwagon of features its competitors have

The fact that you don't differentiate between objective degradations of a service and implementing a feature you don't care about because you are not the target audience for it just show that you don't argue in good faith but just want to push an agenda.

Which barriers to use has Signal implemented? How is the App more centralized now than before, and have they ever expressed interest in federating their service before under Moxie? And how is implementing an optional feature that a lot of people like an argument for an assumed “downward trajectory”?