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- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 4 days ago:
How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 5 days ago:
I give up. Are you an American or something?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 6 days ago:
There you go: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwyj6v24xo
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
At some point you’re so entrenched in the market you don’t have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria. That would mean they’d have to ensure interoperability with its competitors which would restart competition, similar to how we got rid of telecom monopolies.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s a nice cage.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Boutique shop successful, therefore Amazon is not a monopoly.
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- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
If EGS mandated those things it would be as successful as GOG. Which is irrelevant compared to Steam.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Those free games weren’t actually free, Epic paid for them, you know.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
EGS would have all this in that hypothetical scenario, why wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Those things are up to developers / publishers, not the marketplace.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Leveraging dominant position to keep your monopoly is illegal even in the US.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Yes, developers are also victims of this monopoly. It’s obviously better (“worth it”) to pay 30% for visibility on the biggest marketplace.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Having some small competition that’s not ever going to threaten you because you can leverage your dominant position is also a case of a monopoly.
Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it. How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on? This is why they need to be broken up or brought to order via regulations. Companies are not your friends.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Yeah, I gathered as much while trying to figure out who that is :)
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
The cut would be less if competition was possible. I will bet my arm, first child and souls on this.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Pain tolerance to prices, how good the support is, how snappy the app is etc. Within the space of game marketplaces they’re average and that’s because every one of them kind of sucks. If Epic was first to monopolize PC game marketplaces people would be defending them like they defend Valve now because they want all of their games in one place.
Linux gaming was stable before Proton. It was never big but mainstream titles were getting released. These days there’s nothing. Titles could be broken at any moment by a developer and nobody will have any responsibility to fix it. I very much doubt that a for profit company does anything because they “like” something like Linux. They’re there to make money, period.
I’m not saying Valve should port their games to ARM or update them, it’s up to them and they don’t seem to be interested in developing games all that much these days. My point wad that plenty of games run via Rosetta2 fine. Steam doesn’t run fine because essentially it’s a web browser and that’s where you can say that 80 developers might not be enough to support this money printing machine.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
I’ve been reading Ars Technica for over 20 years now but that’s because I like their points, not because I write for them xd
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Their cut is mathematically fair but the inputs for this formula are mostly pain tolerance levels of consumers and producers. I meant fair for having a monopoly. Either you’re a utility or need to be broken up so that actual competition can take place.
Steam Deck and Proton killed Linux gaming because nobody bothers to do native ports. While I don’t agree with that approach it kinda works but it’s not that Valve does this because they like Linux. They’re scared of losing their monopoly in case Windows changes too much.
There are ARM native games on Mac (Disco Elysium for example) and Steam has no issues with them. Not having ARM client though means that you’re running a dynamically recompiling web browser through a translation layer resulting in terrible performance.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 week ago:
Also explains why Steam is still a 32-bit binary and didn’t get ARM port on any platform.
I think the point is that with this kind of upkeep costs it’s hard to argue that Steam sales cut is fair, especially given near-monopoly in PC gaming space.
- Comment on World's First Dreamcast FPGA Core Shown In Action | Time Extension 1 week ago:
I wonder when will we see community settling on some new standardized FPGA platform since Mister and Analogue Pocket have their obvious limitations. I’m only familiar with Analogue side of things but Analogue 64 seems promising.
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 1 week ago:
I don’t see this as a China problem. It’s regulations and oversight problem. Aligned powers push far right via social media onto Europe as well.
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- Comment on Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed 1 week ago:
Agrees on all points but I have trouble believing that with this economy of scale there would be no money being pumped into R&D and in time some results of that.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 1 week ago:
Eh, this doesn’t top gold Analogue Nt they sold for $5k. It’s Analogue being a bunch of goofs.
- Comment on Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed 1 week ago:
China is the center of lithium ion battery tech nowadays. I’ve recently seen that they managed to bring down battery prices by 50% in the last two years and their EVs are cheaper than combustion based alternatives for 2/3 of models being sold.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 1 week ago:
Weird response to plastic chipping issue on every Analogue Pocket after first batches.
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