Say what you want they are making a shit load of money and they/their investors are very happy with the trajectory of the company and it’s stock.

Oops my mistake Thanks for the correction

Uhh, going to need to see some evidence of that. Literally never heard of non indie devs getting royalties or continued payments based off the success of the game.

Actually I’ll correct myself, rockstar is the only company I’ve heard of that does big internal payouts post launch. Most of Rockstars game launches have resulted in new houses for some of their teams.

Got any other examples to share?

Great for you. You did say “almost every workflow”. How many workflows exist beyond your own lived experience? Do you work on games, do you know all the workflows there? Citation absolutely fucking needed.

So what’s your process and how is it a boon?

Steve is a master at writing a script with so many words that says very little. I like a lot of the content but I gotta take it in small bursts.

Robotics has to get wildly cheaper and safer to replace any meaningful amount of work beyond factories or assembly lines

There’s a free demo you can try

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3972400/Relooted_Demo/

By selling advertiser space via their website and newsletter they encourage people to sign up for. You can tell the one in the OP is focused on that in their advertise page https://openalternative.co/advertise and the ad for the owners other platforms which help people monetize list/data table sites like this.

Both are setup to profit from these recommendations, especially the one in the OP. I’m not suggesting these aren’t useful sites, but that there are financial motivations at play as well

This patent was granted in the US.

Can’t get feedback if no one plays it and a demo is the easiest way for someone to play it.

What’s the risk of creating the demo? Is there a downside?

Yeah, I’m with you. The entitlement around media (games movies TV) is insane to me.

You do realize those are usually exclusive for only a year, right? So EGS pays them out for a year of exclusivity and then the devs are free to launch on steam and others.

The thing is, often if they don’t get that first infusion of cash from a deal with EGS (or another investor) they don’t get to complete or even launch the game at all. So it never would make it to the other markets.

Pretty sure folks are referring to streaming sites meaning like Netflix. The person you are responding to said “click and go” referring to services like YouTube and Hulu not sketchy “streaming” sites like what you are describing that require some hoops to go through to make sure.you don’t download a virus.

Could you elaborate on which? I’ve seen a lot of sketchy reviews recently

I mean the game came out in 2012. It’s not really that absurd to base ones licensing contracts for 14 years when the medium (games) generate the vast majority of their revenue in the first months.

Most digital products have an end of life. I agree that the whole digital ownership part isn’t fair, but I don’t think a 14 year selling window due to licensing is the part to be mad at.

I’ve jumped in a few times since they started letting people play years ago! I’m a big fan and am eager to give 1.0 a whirl.

I like how they are embracing the solo vs trading play style and leaning into rewarding both types of players uniquely with power for that choice.

Arpgs like Diablo or pathofexile are my “will always play” games. Like you I’ve played the mmos, shooters, and others and feel like I’ve “finished” those genres and am satisfied not going back unless with friends.

It’s both a nice feeling but also a sad one. I still follow fps games and watch videos of them, but playing them… Meh

Or frankly any online game, live service or not.

This model is not new or unusual and these prices aren’t out of line with industry comps.

I don’t really like it, but it’s barely news that game companies continue to adopt this monetization strategy.

Progress! I want to surf in cs2 haha.

Community servers and alt play modes

Stop reading the news and spend some time in your local community. It’s the best way I’ve found to shake that feeling of dread and exhaustion