On 2nd read, you’re right, it could actually have been written that way

Doesn’t really answer the question for people like me who didn’t follow their every action

Fair enough

They’re still a horrible company in many ways. Forcing them to be better in this one aspect doesn’t change the fact they’re shitty

You misunderstand, I’m all for hiring them back. I’m saying that shouldn’t change his boycott of rockstar

Why? Even if it goes through, they’ve already shown their colours.

What did they screw up recently?

Why does everyone here Yuck other peoples Yum? You aren’t forced to buy them

The irony of this being your previous comment

Edit: Since parent is editing - his reply called me a cocksucker, hence the mod removal. Yay for blatant homophobia

When was that?

Love the ad hominems, do keep them coming 🙄

folks like you who think they’re a serious competitor

Yeah that’s exactly what my bashing of their pathetic excuse at a storefront was implying.

tens of billions of dollars, like uber did

You’re comparing the cost of building a simple software platform (and face it, Steam isn’t THAT complicated to replicate from a technical perspective) to a company hiring tens of millions of people worldwide for billions of man hours and hardware depreciation. Your estimates are so unrealistic it’s hilarious.

Find me another alternative that isn’t riding on the coattails of pre-existing billions in revenue.

Why would I? I’m not making any claims myself, merely pointing out the ridiculousness of yours.

There’s no good competitors because the money isn’t there to build one. […] Would take tens of billions of dollars today to get in there on top of having near feature parity.

This is ridiculous bullshit. Epic had shitloads of money, they just couldn’t find their ass with both hands. It took them years to implement a freaking shopping cart.

Who walks around the house with their shoes on?

I sincerely doubt that even if another launcher did everything Steam does, it would rival it. People already use Steam.

At that point, you can start grabbing business from steam via promotions and such. You don’t need to rival or outgrow Steam to break into the market, you just need a bit of the market.

And that’s assuming they get to this point, ignoring that Steam had decades to get there. It used to be ass.

It’s not even that other launchers have less features than Steam. It’s just that other than GoG, which has a very limited catalog and no regional pricing, there is not a single store that is not actively anti-consumer to a hilarious extent.

Non-drm steam games can actually just be copied around like you would copy the installer

Epic can’t break into the market because of their own shitty launcher, not because of anything Steam has done to lock down the competition.

Now imagine how hard it’d be for a smaller player.

Not very hard, if they were willing to create a decent launcher and engage in sustainable business practices (and regional pricing).

Jeez, how does a sim game like this take over a decade in dev?

(For the sake of this discussion, we’re talking spoilers in general, not whether a 5 year old game should be considered spoilerable)

Wait, so your solution to spoilers, is to tell everybody everywhere to stop having auto loaded images in their feed? Instead of, you know, having the OP spoiler tag their content? Wow.

I’m merely pointing out the flaw in what you said. No need to bring up the other arguments when I wasn’t part of them.

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.