But nobody could have seen that coming! /s

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Yeah no. Not discussing with stans. Monopolies are bad. That is irrefutable, scientific fact. They erode the markets they are in.

Its so interesting how averse all of lemmy (and reddit before) reacts when someone dares to challenge their dopamine fix.

Monopolies = bad

No two ways about it.

Although I agree that steam has done a lot for indies, the issue remains, no matter how many stans downvote me.

The monopolist in this case sells the games to the gamers. It is steam. You have practically no chance to sell games outside of steam and although there is good reason for it being popular, its not healthy.

Disclaimer: this is my opinion as an IT worker and dev, not fact. Please be constructive.

I feel with the folks losing their jobs or seeing their indie studio crash and burn.

That said, I feel like they’re starting to pay the price for letting a monopoly dictate game sales (as benevolent and popular this monopolist is, I know I will again be brigaded for this).

As another commenter said, the industry still tries to go ahead with triple or even quadruple A games, push hype and sell to underage gamers practically gambling games with hero faces.

Then there arent enough unions to hold companies to a standard because in the IT world as a whole, people are used to their privilege. „Trust me bro“ is still seen as a valid strategy in this business.

All while customers get put on pink glasses to make them oblivious to the fact that IT work is just a craft, like carpentry, but less known. The amount of buzz words and bullshit in the industry is appalling and needs to go, double time.

A dev should be judged by their ability to develop, not play corporate mindgames or „speak the lingo“.

Exactly my thought. Thank you for pointing that out.

That would be neat as well. :) thanks for sharing.

There actually already is steamdb which does that exact thing. The reason I suggested it is because probably all would benefit from it.

What part do you feel is horrible? I enjoyed playing it a lot.

I’m monitoring the cpu and ram and so far the server isnt utilizing it except short bursts which dont max out anything. i’ll try and optimize the network first and then go for performance. i suppose its a multi stage issue by now. will update on the matter.

E3 1220v3 3.5 ghz

Xeon 4 core, 4 threads, 16 G DDR4 ram, onboard graphics.

Hmmm… that makes sense. I‘ll check. Thank you for the suggestion.

What happens is that I get rubberbanding (I go somewhere, build something, get set back like 30 seconds and my stuff is not built), loosing my connection like once every two hours or something. My wife plays with me and has similar issues.

The logs sometimes show „tick took longer than anticipated“ or something, which would indicate a performance issue but since the cpu and the ram arent even used properly, I assume it might be limited somehow.

Took me a moment to recognize it. This game is far better with friends imo. Have fun :)

Damn thats a depressing read. Why isnt this shit illegal?

Pure principle is the answer. People who buy a game should be able to play the game as long as they wish, sell it, give it their grandkids for all I care.

The problem with your argument is „doesnt affect me, wont bother“.

Think of anything you like or even love. Now think of it being taken away, because someone else doesnt care about it. You think thats fair?

Its actually the same with real money. Since we gave up the gold standard, money has become a digital currency as well. Both are used to manipulate us.

I wish they got sanctioned into oblivion.

Apple is getting their butt handed to them in china. Very nice.

This is the way

They‘re probably also gonna wreck the modding community with this as it has been hard to keep up already.

I personally will stay with voxelibre as it is open source and doesnt have telemetry baked in.

Have you seen the blender movie? Its quite short but you dont need any equipment to make good animated movies anymore. Its all there.

I‘m somewhat sure the person who made the trailer will make a version of the film out of pure spite that works exactly like this and its going to be the best thing ever, maybe even shaking the movie industry.

Cool idea. Thanks for chiming in. :) i appreciate it

Yeah, thats what we call a trade off. The large userbases are on the bad platforms and the good platforms have small userbases.

Until people start at least mirror their stuff on (eg) peertube, we wont see increase in userbase.

For that reason, if I planned to interact with a large audience, I would go to twitch, no two ways about it, but mirror on peertube so it gets a chance to grow.

There is no free lunch. We have to put in work if we want to see positive change.

Since you‘re on the fediverse already, consider peertube. It still needs work in discoverability but from a data ownership perspective its pretty top notch.

Thats pretty awesome! :) thanks for sharing. Do you know by any chance if kodi has a steam app somewhere? I‘m going with a raspberry pi and it works well as a client for media but not yet for steam.

The improvements of steam and proton, steamlink and big picture mode make it possible to run great games on your TV. Its not „just turn on“ yet but we‘re getting there. I wanted a PS5 when they were unavailable but I since managed to play my favorite games on my tv with a ps4 controller and dont see the point to buy back into a locked up computer with a fancy case for games that have microstransactions gallore.

Oh man… that article is very long but the first 10 or 20 paragraphs make me nauseous.

Thank you for your opinion.

Nice wording. Blocked.

Whatever you‘re doing, you might wanna do less of it. Valve has been doing these kinds of things for a long time and anyone who understands markets knows that there is no monopoly without taking out the competition.

In any case, I know you wouldnt admit it if I presented you with rockhard evidence that they did it and thats okay. I‘m not doing this for you.

I do appreciate you taking the time to write this up and I didnt get a confrontational vibe from you.

But excusing it by saying „could be better“ makes you part of the problem.

Billionaires are the cancer of this world and anti competitive actions have evidently been committed, if you like to hear it or not.

Tell your friend gabe to start making a real difference in the world because he actually can and then you can say its not that bad.

I see your point. A reason why I brought this up is because valve does not see criticism for the things they also do wrong and especially on this platform, rarely does anyone look at them from a non favorable view. Thats not because they dont do wrong but because they are good at marketing and other gaming companies are a lot worse than them.

Putting them in their own not the main tab does add a click to viewing them, no?

The underlying issue here is that we are in this mess because our parents and grandparents didnt do this (enough). So yes, going against corporations is kind of my hobby.

Well, I might wanna be more direct in my critique in the future. Thanks for giving constructive criticism.

My point is everything but irrelevant. Sorry you cant see that.