“Still” is burying the lede. It’s gotten worse.

They have game-interrupting full screen ads? Our just product placement. Because only the former is banned

There’s plenty of proof of stake tokens that do not waste all that electricity that mining does

Very few game sequels are that tied in to it’s predecessor narratively that this is an issue. I would say the vast majority of games are designed to be picked up from anywhere in the series.

Even Mass Effect, where you play as the same character throughout a multi game story arc, still has each game giving the player an on ramp, and each game having it’s own miniature arc to play through.

And various local billionaires

The answer to that is very little of it. Their networth is due to their ownership of these stocks. If the value of these stocks dip more than others (and due to the AI craze, they are more inflated than even other tech stocks), they lose collateral to borrow against (this is how musk bought Twitter).

Computers have a life span. Every year, there’s a whole swath of people getting their first one - often for school, which is already prohibitively expensive

There are chips in nearly every single appliance you own at this point. From your car to your toaster.

Hitting the tech sector harder than everything else will remove their ability to leverage their own tech businesses to buy up others.

Which is insane because it was all over the news just a couple years ago about why vehicle prices had gotten so high… Because of a chip shortage.

You think the 3 richest men in the world hanging into his coattails at all times will let him wreck all their businesses in one fell swoop?

Everything he’s done thus far has been at the behest of someone else.

I dunno, I remember way back in StarCraft the original, everyone upon entering a game would immediately change their setting sto Very High Latency…because who the fuck knows why.

Republicans like to complain about perjury traps, but that was an actual perjury trap. Starr was playing word games the whole time. People focus on Continue answers being ridiculous, but those are the kinds of things you have to say to combat the absurd questions he was being asked. Bill is still a piece of shit, but this whole thing was political theatre.

I don’t understand the hype around it. Played it briefly, but found it clunky feeling. Characters are so big, they had to tone down their speed, so everything feelings sluggish. And the abilities just feel mostly useless.

But it’s F2P, why bother being patient with a game you don’t have to pay to try out?

So…a mod.

Modders did it. Saying “unpaid software engineers” is painting a very different picture than what actually is the case.

Given that their biggest market just declared tencent a security threat, may not want to hitch their wagon to that horse

…but also, not false…

100% focus on customer service

Lol

Yes I do. During the winter steam sale I looked at my wishlist and saw that almost everything on it had been sitting there as coming soon for a few years now. I think helldivers was the one game I played that came out in 2024.

There’s always specific rumors. They’re always just rumors. Those rumors are spreading because gamers are bored.

Because there’s nothing else exciting in the game industry right now, so people are looking for any excuse to be hyped.

It’s being phrased as an ROI per employee “asset”, not as compensation per actual employee.

Gabe is pocketing most of this.

Marketing

What deadlines? Squadron 42 was supposed to release in 2016…

That ship has sailed.

Did we already forget that BG3 existed like once year later…?

You know some prankster programmer is going to put that in a comment somewhere for the lols now that he’s said that

So…Edge of Tomorrow, but with elves

Boomers’ children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn’t play anymore

They mostly make much smaller games. Almost mobile app type things.

Eww tencent would somehow make Ubisoft worse.

There is no master plan. They’ve started this project and scraped it multiple times. They’ve fired the entire team multiple times, even sold the team the tech once.

Do you know why 30% was chosen? It was the typical cut retail took. Physical stores selling goods take that much to cover their lease, logistics in moving those good to the store and employees.

Online stores do not share most of those costs. 30% is not needed.

No it wasn’t. We were taking about streams monopoly status and epic being one of the few alternatives.

YOU were the one trying to deflect the conversation into business viability. Which your entire side tangent really only reinforces how obscene the monopoly hold off stream is, that trying to break into the market is so expensive.

Well yeah, fighting for market share against an entrenched monopoly isn’t cheap. That’s not a reason to cheer on the monopoly though.

It’s limited time, but also the selection these last few years has felt very uninspired. Everything is extremely derivative and been done to death.

There was a mass consolidation of developers/publishers recently, on top of further extended development cycles that has really limited any kind of variety we might have seen.

All retail establishments utilize loss leaders. It’s not some underhanded duplicitous tactic, it’s just a common business strategy

It sounds like slime you’re blaming your shitty internet on epic instead of providing an actual argument for why epic isn’t actually an alternative (it is). You want to suck up to a monopoly, just be honest about it.

I’m not sure what you’re responding to, but it wasn’t anyone I said

It is, in fact, an alternative to steam. What a stupid thing to say