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In online stores Visa and MC are the big ones. If we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online purchases worldwide. For online stores they are the two players who matter. Losing one is a significant loss of revenue, losing both will kill the store.

When you don’t know how to pass others you’re only as fast as the driver ahead of you.

Obviously Hamas is supplying Canada with fentanyl and Canada is sending it across the border with those filthy American immigrants who then sell fentanyl to real Americans, you know the white kind of American. You don’t need to be a conservative crackhead to see that, you just need to be a conservative.

I would like to be excited for a revival of an series that hasn’t seen a game in 20? years, but the trailer and the article just comes across as a bog-standard open world action game with RPG elements. They need to give something more because this doesn’t excite me at all.

You do realize that was not the end of the sentence?

But just for you I added the word games and then moved the structure around.

I’ve started Shadow of War. It’s sad what WB did with the game when it released, but in its current state it’s a blast to play. The pacing is just a smidge to the slow side but I’m taking it more as a marathon than a sprint, because I am enjoying the core gameplay loop. It’s one of the few games where dying is fun. The story is essentially nonsense and you can see plot twists coming from a mile away, but you’re not playing it for the actual story. You’re playing it for the stories the nemesis system creates.

It’s such a simple system that just creates such memorable stories and enemies. In my playthrough I have an ork who killed me, I then got revenge on them by poisoning them, they then came back from the dead as a legendary with epic poison trait and now I run away from him because he keeps getting stronger. I have another ork who followed me from one area to another, he’s an epic ork with iron will (meaning I can’t turn him to my side) and I keep humiliating him in hopes that eventually I can break his iron will trait. No luck so far but I’ll keep trying.

If anyone is planning on playing it my recommendation is to either start on the hardest difficulty (and focus on collecting skill points because the game does get easier one you have more skills unlocked) or raise the difficulty as you progress until dying is relatively common. You’re simply not going to get the full nemesis system experience if you’re never dying.

I was expecting something where the Chinese IP courts rule in favor of breaking IP laws or at the very least turn a blind eye. This current article doesn’t count because there’s no resolution here. As for AliExpress, they have an entire process in place to handle IP infringement and they actually ban sellers off the platform if they continue infringing.

You mean decades of behavior of which you so far haven’t presented even a single one. Guess what, one example is better than 0 examples.

Explaining means you actually explain your point instead of throwing out random examples of others doing something similar and then mockingly asking “I wonder why they wouldn’t care”.

You also seem to be moving the goal post with every post. You said China doesn’t care to engage in IP fad, I showed China absolutely does engage in it. Now you’re saying of course they do because they flount the rules themselves. Actually they don’t. A few years ago Beijing IP court decided a Chinese artist had to pay around half a million to a Belgian artist for plagiarizing his work. I guess you’re about to find another excuse to shift the goal post once again.

Then you should’ve made that argument instead of arguing that it’s justified because centuries ago something was stolen from them.

But I’m not sure how you got the impression China has no interest in engaging with the IP rights when last year they filed more IPs than anyone else in the world.

Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

So what’s your issue with people going after China? After all it’s fair game because China is also a genocide enabler.

Do you know that you can edit your comment before you post? Because if you post and then edit the rest of comment in later others might miss that when replying? Anyway, not that you’ve actually addressed something in your previous comment I’m going to respond to that. I’m going to ignore what you’ve said right now because that shit is just too dumb to respond to.

idk, what are YOU gonna do?

I already complained to my government.

are cis people gonna finally fight for trans autonomy or are they gonna act like us having autonomy is too insane?

The fuck are you on about? I’m not against trans people. We should all have humane levels of rights.

are you gonna finally listen to us like when trans sex workers told you a decade ago that banks, the police and payment processors are policing our money or are you gonna let the issue fester because you don’t want your family to know you stand with trannies and whores?

Again, the fuck? I’m also pro sex work because sex workers regularly get exploited and I think legalizing and regulation sex work would make their lives safer.

Also do you see how insane you act? I disagree with you on one thing and then you automatically assume I also disagree with you on (probably) all the other things. You’re turning me into a villain in your own mind, and for what purpose? So you could dehumanize me? You’re acting exactly like the conservatives who hate your guts.

Okay, the smug “you’re not one of us so don’t speak” argument… Alright, then we’re just not going to have a discussion. Just don’t forget that if one of these groups ever use payment providers to suppress trans rights you supported this.

In this context it’s definitely a hot take considering the prudish neighbor was able to make freaky shit “illegal” anyway, and in far greater capacity than any single government could. Rape and incest games ain’t for me but when they get banned because a handful of people decide for the rest of us how the world is supposed to look like without anyone else getting a say in the matter I take serious offense. At least if they went the legal route the process would’ve a) been transparent and given an opportunity for others to make a case and b) not instantly affect the entire world.

This “scary government is going to take away your rights” just leads to private enterprises taking away your rights without any oversight. This entire thing is a case in point. The government can take away your rights but at least you have a way to fight for your rights, what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?

I didn’t say that. I agree that the first one counts and that’s an exception to the rule. The second you better bring out point by point examples of how DE does monetization as horribly as EA or Ubisoft because I’ve heard otherwise. And I think with the third the vast majority of people would agree it doesn’t count.

Destiny after the Activision split

And who was the CEO of Bungie during that period? Pete Parsons who had a senior marketing job at Microsoft before joining Bungie. Parsons also had no problem laying off hundreds of people at Bungie while continuing to expand his classic car collection. Dude has big publisher energy all over him. In fact he was the person I was thinking of when I said some people will do it for the money.

Warframe

First of all, Warframe is a F2P game which means they need SOME sort of a revenue stream. And from what I’ve heard Warframe monetization is one the best on the gaming market. It doesn’t feel like you have to pay to have good time. And they actually removed an accidental slot machine from their game because they didn’t want to incentivize whale behavior.

Basically the entire mobile market.

Which is a very different market. Mobile game developers couldn’t even ask $20 for their game let along $60-$70. It’s not comparable to the traditional computer gaming market.

Neither can Steam. Visa and Mastercard make up 90% of all online purchases outside China. If they cut off Steam then Steam is effectively dead.

Can you give me 3 examples where the developer is monetizing the game like EA or Ubisoft would?

Except developers don’t have the same incentives. Publishers are incentivized by profits. Developers are usually incentivized by wanting the world to see their artistic output.

Of course some of them will do it for money because some people are just like that, but overall the industry would probably be in better hands if the developers got the long end of the stick and the publishers got the short end. Right now in the AAA market it’s the opposite and it shows.