MolochAlter

I love communism

And I’m sure you live on one of the many successful communist countries in the world today.

Oh, wait.

and circus performers

Well at least you have high self esteem.

they both bring joy to the masses

The masses*

* the portion of them that is not in a gulag, is not disappeared, doesn’t have its rights curtailed due to social credit decline for disagreeing with the regime, wasn’t purposefully starved to death during the holodomor, and so forth.

And don’t get me started on the evils of the circus performers who propagandise for them from the comfort of their liberal democracies.

There is a reason communism is treated with equal acrimony to nazism in every former soviet satellite state, m8.

How’s the bile, you seething commie clown?

Jesus that is not a small bug lol

Wtf why?

valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.

And the goalposts go flying.

Who the fuck cares if valve is cute and cuddly? Who even wants that in a marketplace other than morons who think they can take advantage of someone else’s kindness?

Valve is a company, their job is to make money for the people who own it.

• You the customer want the most out of your transaction with them, they know it make it a priority.
• They understand that devs working there making fucktons of money is good because they’ll stay and be motivated to work, so they are selective on who they hire and then pay them an insane amount.
• They want to avoid microsoft cutting their nuts off so they pushed linux as a viable alternative.
• They want devs to sell on their platform so they refined a business deal that works well enough that they get several new games on their storefront a day and still make back their operating costs, despite servers that can literally be used to benchmark several gigabit download connections.
• They are the most economically effective company in the world and they achieved it by not enshittifying their platform and not going public.

Selflessness would literally be a downgrade, I want Valve to have every damn cent they earned.

They’re not the only game in town, they are the best game in town, and at every turn they make an effort not to become a monopoly, either, because they know the good will of their customer base is more important than attempts at short term spikes in company revenue, which is only possible because they are a privately held company.

So yeah, are they cuddly and nice? No, fuck no, but they are extremely effective while providing a service that puts every other provider in their field to shame, so why the fuck would I want them to change?

They could, but why would they when 30% is fair still? You are not entitled to setting other people’s asking price, and they are entitled to setting the cost of their own labour.

If anyone is greedy here it’s you, demanding to have a say in how much is a fair rate for someone else’s time and skill.

If you’re a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you’re just “a dev” then it’s not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale.

Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.

taking 30% from devs by doing nothing.

LMAO tell me you are not a dev without telling me.

Steam does a shitton for devs, the 30% is literally only for sales through their storefront, I can get any amount of keys and resell them wherever I want and give valve nothing, and they’ll still host all my shit, check ownership, handle copy sharing in family libraries, handle patching and beta tests, all for a one time fee that is even refunded if you ever get past a certain amount of copies sold.

You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

I’d argue that’s precisely when you need 6 yachts, possibly more.

If the coasts are gonna flood you should porbably own things that float.

Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion

Unfathomably based, let the man scuba dive in peace.

Nintendo products have their union sale sticker on so I think they met and our guys won.

The exact specifics change country by country, in Italy there are a lot of horseshit rules around it because one of the most powerful unions lobbies (our equivalent of the RIAA) for more exclusive control over media at every chance they get, to the point that you’re not allowed to distribute even your own media through physical sales without paying a cut.

Not necessarily, they are pretty sure the Devs will fold like a stack of lawn chairs well before any legal precedent can even come into play, especially cause Japanese companies can sue in Japan and basically win by default against foreign defendants.

Legend of Grimrock seems pretty close, i haven’t played it in years though so I might be misremembering.

You also said “feel” not “look”. If you exclusively meant aesthetics you should clarify it in your own comment.

Also, responsiveness is not about if something is “fast enough” it’s about making the thought>action gap as small as possible for better immersion and player control. Higher FPS means there is a more consistent time from input to effect. If i press a button in a 30 fps game the input delay can be anything from almost none to 1/30th of a second (30ms, which if you played online games back in the day is not great), and there is no way to tell how much it will be. The more frames the less of a possible variance you experience.

Also all input is tied to framerate, if you have examples of games that have their input loop completely separate from framerate I’m all ears, especially given rendering is not on demand.

Yes but frame rate is primarily about responsiveness, not aesthetics, which is why AI frame generation is a horseshit idea.

On Steam you can report review bombing events to have the reviews struck from the list so…

And the working at blizzard line is mocking Thor for literally never shutting the fuck up about his nepobaby job.

whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate

It’s not, in his response to the initial controversy he cut out the part of Ross’ video that directly contradicted his misrepresentation, he’s a lying piece of shit.

I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake

Worse, he actively lied. In his edited video about the petition he actively misrepresents the initiative, then goes on to edit out the the part of Ross’ video that would have contradicted his misrepresentation.

This is not an innocent or negligent mistake on Thor’s part, it’s an active attempt at burial.

I love that between then and now, “humans” still have not learned to properly pitch a product.