not click links clearly marked

Most users are going to see the image directly without clicking anything.

In addition to what the other person said, it’s not American. It’s pretty universal college / university numbering

Taliban: Don’t worry, we’ll make sure our women’s rights are maintained

Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value

You say that as if publicly traded firms do

Considering their current level of creative control and freedom, that’s like Kim promising nothing will change for the worse in NK.

Screenshots of employee devices, having a mole in the group, etc etc? We all know there’s a million ways to gain information about people online, there’s literally a dozen comms on lemmy about privacy and protecting your info. Your critical thinking cap is more like a conspiracy theory cap.

It’s not impossible discord collaborated with rockstar, but it’s fucking unlikely. What would discord even have to gain from it that’s worth the risk?

They were in a discord group. That’s a far cry from ‘discord selling them out’

discord after they specifically sold the unionists out.

Source, please? Nobody claimed that except you

Why is Agent Smith in lotr? Damn, it really is a simulation.

Wouldn’t you want to skip Nintendo games so that they stop being culturally relevant? I often hear that piracy is good for media creators in the long run.

This is the message we were replying to

But you realise you could swap the Nintendo games with child slave chocolate and this discussion would have played out just the same. What makes one boycott more likely to succeed than another? That’s setting aside the fact that you’re assuming everybody will have the same set of social values as you.

How does not playing a game drain more valuable mental energy than downloading, installing, and playing it?

I’ve been using Linux for a really long time, but the thumbdrive idea might inspire me to get it up and running on my wife’s laptop!

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It’s #3 on BGG! Sadly those double layer player boards aren’t part of the base game though.

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Their game reviews are worth shit all, so their only worth is reporting on the game industry itself. And that’s a niche area that not many people are interested in.

Know your enemy corporate overlord, eh?

Isn’t that because the optimisation sucks

The “paid more to work less” part is not tenable

We could have the major publishers and devs paying better salaries. They can afford it.

This is the asshole who presided over a significant portion of the enshittification of both Xbox and Blizzard, so we know exactly what his opinion is worth

The entire article was summarised in the headline. There’s literally nothing else of interest there

I think I heard they can ban your account for that.

No, they don’t. That’s just anti-piracy propaganda at work

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I’m a completionist. I’ll either get everything or nothing. Which means games with lots of DLC are generally a no no for me.

Would have picked it up, but for the number of dlc inflating the price

I’m not sure there’s any solution to this problem. Returning to the era of gatekeepers would be a regression, and the increased democratization of game development has led to more creative and interesting products all around. This glut may be intimidating for players, but it also presents them with more choices than ever before, so long as they can ignore the FOMO of not jumping on every new release as soon as it hits.

But for the companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars into games that need to move huge numbers to break even, this is no small challenge. And it’s just getting harder every year.

Solution is simple, stop spending millions of dollars on the same bloody IP and cash grabs and give your devs some freedom.

Most games have 10x more personnel than Silksong, including most indie games that aren’t solo efforts

You can be smart on some stuff and dumb in others. Their dumb take was on somehow deciding valve was responsible without providing any sort of logical reasoning.

Yes, and a lot of people disagree with them, because they’re dumb.

I think because in the context of the discussion, you’re (probably unintentionally?) making it sound like Steam is at fault for not catching the malware.

Pretty sure Steam already does that. And no automated (or even manual) analysis is going to be 100% foolproof, or we wouldn’t be worrying about supply chain attacks in Linux. So that puts us back at square one.

I wonder how many people are taking your statement at face value without recognising the sarcasm…

Why so? Assuming this is the 1st complaint against the game, what was steam supposed to do in the past month?

Exactly

See other comment for why this would be a horrible, horrible idea

Incentives. If valve did this, the expectation would be for them to cover any and all future breaches. They don’t have the capability of detecting and preventing all attempts, and this would incentivise a wave of new malicious programs. Because hey, if you get one into the store, you can now steal a million bucks from your own sockpuppet account, and valve will cover it.

I doubt they even had a contract with steam, any more than you have a contract with Gmail. Good luck suing Google if your mail was misplaced or delayed.

Lawsuit on what grounds, exactly?

Cmon, most indie devs don’t deserve that