Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
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M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days agoHow people can give money to a software maker that has shown they can not count to 10 always blows me away.
ryper@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Look, they can count to two and that is good enough for software. But if portal 4 comes out next I am going to lose it.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Microsoft deserves all the crap they’ve ordered, but skipping 9 on versioning was pretty smart move on their part. There’s still a ton of older software which just checks if windows version matches ‘windows 9’ to include both 95 and 98 (and all their variants). If 8.1 was released as 9 it would’ve broken a lot of compatibility which at least then was a big deal for Windows. And it still is, but now it seems that they’ll happily break everything from their most known product.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Not even the issues with software just checking for ‘windows 9’. But, people are…umm…not smart. And there would a whole bunch of people thinking windows 95 or 98 was the same thing as windows 9. Windows 8.1 was 9. MS just didn’t call it 9 to avoid pebkac issues. With that said, fuck MS.
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Also because many software did version checks by doing a substring search “Windows 9”.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors ether. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
Hule@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If you think about it, the PS4 had titles like Killzone, Final Fantasy, Destiny, Diablo 3, Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed, Battlefield 4…
I mean, adding death to that doesn’t seem too risky.
/s