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Emulation subreddits said that S8E still isn’t as compatible as their previous chips with emulators, so don’t expect a big performance lift

Exactly

Just because it has a dodge button doesn’t mean it’s soulslike. Didn’t Silent Hill 2 Remake have very similar combat? What’s the problem?

They could move to new payment processors

This is way harder than you can imagine… You can’t just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.