Well, apparently in your opinion, money is the only way to have effective change in the world. Any other attempt to do so will fail miserably.

This explains so much why actual voting numbers are so poor in the US…

Such as? Perhaps if you specified on what they’re getting a pass for people could be a little less blind.

As long as that house exclusively uses Linux.

They’ve gotta save that supply to feed the AI bubble, though.

Using AI to maximize his profits without people criticizing him for it.

Indeed, but shoving Steam under the bus, instead of critiquing their “rivals” for their lack of consumer-friendly alternatives, when for the most part they’re just doing their best seems counterintuitive.

Indeed, I only play games generated by artificial brains grown in vats.

But pigs are cute :(

Why associate them with such a shit company?

He, like the that Microsoft suit, has just enough awareness to realize how AI is being thought of by the general public, and knows it would affect his bottom line. Which is really all he cares about.

Again, implying gross profit, not net. It didn’t say “makes” 50 million profit. You are inferring something that is not otherwise implied.

I don’t think it’s misleading, “generating” implies gross profit, not net. It’s not explicit, but it’s also not misleading.

A joke doesn’t have to end with a punchline. Sometimes yes, anding is the best thing to do with a joke rather than just laughing and moving on.

Sorry, clearly you are far more knowledgeable about such things, despite having nothing more than I do to back it up. I apologize for contradicting your opinion on the internet, that was my bad.

Why does it have to be? It’s basically free money for them, whereas they have to make deals and curate their store front a lot more. Games take time and energy (if you don’t just want AI generated slop, at least), so to get that to market takes time. Whereas microtransaction garbage is basically hit it and quit it and generates insane amounts of money.

It has pools in it!

Let me guess, they’re introducing base-building and crafting elements that they somehow patented ten years ago.

Yeah, it’s in the article.

If it’s anything like the game Immortality, there’s an underlying story you can figure out. The gameplay in Immortality involves clicking elements in the video to link to elements from videos from other times and in-universe media. You can fast-forward and reverse, and there’s a hidden element you can discover.

Lots of nudity and a fair amount of blood, though.

But… a video isnt real life. It’d be more like “I dont need a nature documentary because I have a book on nature”.

What does “vertically only so centered” mean?

Wow, even more horizontal white space for no reason!

I’m sure when they were a hanafuda maker they were a little less litigious…

Some publishers call it a “battle pass” or “seasons” instead.

If you say so :)

Yeah, but then you have to install EGS.

At least for video streaming services, they care more about new subscribers than retaining subscribers. That State of Decay may be a retention game, but the indie darling was the first thing they played upon subscribing. That’s likely going to hold more weight.

“Please drink verification can”?

It appears that they have.

Is this your first time on an internet forum? Or the internet in general? Topics often drift. Just because the post is about something doesn’t mean every single thing in the comments is going to be explicitly about that.

I dont understand what you’re trying to argue. The person you responded to made a point about Major studios trying to make a hit… but focusing on business principles over actual game production.

You responded by boiling it down to “Devs should make better games” which wasn’t close to approaching the point they were making.

My point was that devs are not always the ones in control, and trying to simplify a point about business majors running studios into the ground is somehow about the development team being bad is missing the point by a parser.

No one said Team Cherry was a AAA studio. At this point of the comment chain, no one had said anything about them at all until you brought it up. No one is trying to disparage your fanboyism.

The difference is that devs arent the ones in control in most AAA studios.

The hype for silksong has been going so long that it’s become a meme🤡. Just because it’s not as obvious anymore doesn’t mean it no longer exists.

He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.

Because the problem isn’t with the currency itself, it’s with the intermediaries necessary for large scale mercantile interactions like selling games on an independent storefront.

Just because you use crypto doesn’t mean someone who holds that crypto in trust for you can’t just not give it to you if they don’t feel like it. And as there is less regulation covering that currency, you have less recourse in getting it back from them.

I can’t speak to all the positives and negatives of crypto, but I can say it is not in any way a cure-all that you can just inject into capitalism to fix everything.

Crypto doesn’t ensure you get the product. Like with real cash, other party might just run away with money

Which is why intermediaries exist and why crypto isn’t in any way a solution for the problem this entire post is about. And why bringing it up randomly is complete tech bro wankery.

So there is a network and backbone to it. And you need to do something more than “I give this person a bitcoins for my game” especially when working through a separate storefront. Both to ensure that the person receives their game and you receive their currency.

The problem with current transactions isn’t the money itself, it’s the services that use that currency.

So you just need to say “I give this person .001 bitcoin” and they magically get it? That’s wild to me.

So when dealing with volume purchases via a secondary store front (as established in the article) doesn’t need any kind of intercession from Steam or another processor to deal with any and all purchases? It’s all completely autonomous with no intervention needed by anyone at all?

Are there more legal protections for crypto payment processors than traditional payment processors? My understanding is that there’s less regulation in the crypto space these days.