Forking Wine and invoking XKCD #927 with Linux does not a hero create. Especially when said “”“hero”“” has fucked over game ownership and introduced the wider world to the original lootbox, the Mann Co. Crate that can only be opened with $4.99 keys. Funny how nobody mentions that, when it is even more useless and predatory than the Oblivion horse armor that people keep bringing up to this day (which I wouldn’t have forked over $2.5 but somehow even that low bar had more value to it). Gee whiz, no wonder we got The Crew’s shutdown and tons of in-game economies.
Stop simping for a fucking billionaire. Treat them all equally.
calling proton a “wine fork” is akin to calling a linux distro a “kernel fork”. Proton does a lot of things that are simply out of scope for wine. Referring to it as yet another unnecessary standard is quite unfair, considering the impact it made.
Especially when said “”“hero”“” has fucked over game ownership
First, I never called Valve, or Gaben in particular, heroes.
Second, Valve never “fucked over game ownership”, because it was fucked over long before them. Lawmakers struggled with such concepts as “intellectual property” since the inception of the term. It’s hard to sell something that can be infinitely copied, because the value of a good that is present in infinite abundance is zero. Licensing is an attempt to force IP behave same as material goods do.
introduced the wider world to the original lootbox, the Mann Co. Crate that can only be opened with $4.99 keys.
Yeah, not only that, they invented battle passes too. Does that mean that without Valve there’d be no crates? I highly doubt that.
Also, unlike literally any other loot boxes in any other game, items for Valve games Always were primarily community-made. Each crate opened, each skin traded is a profit that is guaranteed to reach the original creator. The horse armor analogy is inadequate due to that, and the fact that oblivion is a single-player game.
Also, trading is still a thing, unlike in any other games. Back in the day i myself managed to get the cosmetics i liked without investing any money, purely by exchanging items with other players.
no wonder we got The Crew’s shutdown and tons of in-game economies.
Now that’s absurd. Both somehow accusing Valve in The Crew shutdown incident, and calling omnipreset in-game purchases “an economy”. The only games with economy systems i can think of are those of Valve, EVE online, and some MMORPGs. You can’t sell your Overwatch skins without selling the whole account, for instance. In other words, in most games, an in-game purchase is money forever lost.
You want to blame someone for the shit we’re in right now? Blame mindless consumers that to this day mindlessly pre-order games based on how shiny they look in the trailer. Blame our modern culture for endorsing the anti-piracy agenda. Blame yourself for not lecturing your fellow neighbor why consumerism should be conscious. As long as people won’t learn, there always will be bad actors exploiting all of the above. Valve is one of the few rare exceptions that don’t try to exploit their consumers, that make pro-consumer decisions not based off peer pressure, but rather because it makes the world a slightly better place.
Stop simping for a fucking billionaire. Treat them all equally.
I do. I judge people based off their actions. If the man managed to become a billionaire while making or supporting the development of some legendary games, developing a platform that becomes a de-facto monopolist purely by the virtue of being that good, using all of that power to instill pro-consumer policies; then by allowing artists to profit off something they made for the games they love; by providing a huge platform for indie devs; by supporting fan-made works based off Valve’s IPs; by soloing the whole spectrum of problems regarding gaming on linux; by sponsoring and promoting FOSS… i’d rather let him keep the money, because my issue with most of the billionaires is not that they have more money than me, it’s that they stripped off their humanity, ripping other people off to become billionaires in the first place. Gabe, on the other hand, doesn’t fit the stereotype. If every corporate CEO was more like him, i think the world would be a better place.
Now try to turn on your head and oppose me without trying to demean anything i say in your head by calling me a simp, because newsflash, reality isn’t black and white, trying to treat it like it is — is the definition of bigotry.
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Forking Wine and invoking XKCD #927 with Linux does not a hero create. Especially when said “”“hero”“” has fucked over game ownership and introduced the wider world to the original lootbox, the Mann Co. Crate that can only be opened with $4.99 keys. Funny how nobody mentions that, when it is even more useless and predatory than the Oblivion horse armor that people keep bringing up to this day (which I wouldn’t have forked over $2.5 but somehow even that low bar had more value to it). Gee whiz, no wonder we got The Crew’s shutdown and tons of in-game economies.
Stop simping for a fucking billionaire. Treat them all equally.
calling proton a “wine fork” is akin to calling a linux distro a “kernel fork”. Proton does a lot of things that are simply out of scope for wine. Referring to it as yet another unnecessary standard is quite unfair, considering the impact it made.
First, I never called Valve, or Gaben in particular, heroes.
Second, Valve never “fucked over game ownership”, because it was fucked over long before them. Lawmakers struggled with such concepts as “intellectual property” since the inception of the term. It’s hard to sell something that can be infinitely copied, because the value of a good that is present in infinite abundance is zero. Licensing is an attempt to force IP behave same as material goods do.
Yeah, not only that, they invented battle passes too. Does that mean that without Valve there’d be no crates? I highly doubt that.
Also, unlike literally any other loot boxes in any other game, items for Valve games Always were primarily community-made. Each crate opened, each skin traded is a profit that is guaranteed to reach the original creator. The horse armor analogy is inadequate due to that, and the fact that oblivion is a single-player game.
Also, trading is still a thing, unlike in any other games. Back in the day i myself managed to get the cosmetics i liked without investing any money, purely by exchanging items with other players.
Now that’s absurd. Both somehow accusing Valve in The Crew shutdown incident, and calling omnipreset in-game purchases “an economy”. The only games with economy systems i can think of are those of Valve, EVE online, and some MMORPGs. You can’t sell your Overwatch skins without selling the whole account, for instance. In other words, in most games, an in-game purchase is money forever lost.
You want to blame someone for the shit we’re in right now? Blame mindless consumers that to this day mindlessly pre-order games based on how shiny they look in the trailer. Blame our modern culture for endorsing the anti-piracy agenda. Blame yourself for not lecturing your fellow neighbor why consumerism should be conscious. As long as people won’t learn, there always will be bad actors exploiting all of the above. Valve is one of the few rare exceptions that don’t try to exploit their consumers, that make pro-consumer decisions not based off peer pressure, but rather because it makes the world a slightly better place.
I do. I judge people based off their actions. If the man managed to become a billionaire while making or supporting the development of some legendary games, developing a platform that becomes a de-facto monopolist purely by the virtue of being that good, using all of that power to instill pro-consumer policies; then by allowing artists to profit off something they made for the games they love; by providing a huge platform for indie devs; by supporting fan-made works based off Valve’s IPs; by soloing the whole spectrum of problems regarding gaming on linux; by sponsoring and promoting FOSS… i’d rather let him keep the money, because my issue with most of the billionaires is not that they have more money than me, it’s that they stripped off their humanity, ripping other people off to become billionaires in the first place. Gabe, on the other hand, doesn’t fit the stereotype. If every corporate CEO was more like him, i think the world would be a better place.
Now try to turn on your head and oppose me without trying to demean anything i say in your head by calling me a simp, because newsflash, reality isn’t black and white, trying to treat it like it is — is the definition of bigotry.