Badeendje
@Badeendje@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 4 days ago:
I don’t buy that… I would have when this just started… just a stupid decision made by an MBA that only thinks of his MAU and DAU metrics for the playstation network.
But once shit hit the fan, some big shot corpo started making central decisions from the comfort of his volcano base while petting his white cat.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 5 days ago:
Absolutely. The region not being limited is a big indicator on intent. Or it’s the dev that “forgot” and got more sales.
I’m curious how many copies are sold in regions no longer supported.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 5 days ago:
If they would have put up a banner in the game or a popup every log in stating …
“Sony account requirement temporarily suspended. Please note that in a future update this will be a hard requirement and you will not be able to play Helldivers without a PSN account”.
Then this would not have been an issue. The question is if their game would have gotten as big as it did. I’ll bet ‘no’.
Also how fucking lame is the playstation network that they still cannot handle proper game launches… ffs this should be a non issue by now. The servers that handle this should be setup to spin up and down clones when needed… But nooooo that costs extra money.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 5 days ago:
So then why not relist them and sell your game on a bigger market? The answer is probably because they will try again.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 6 days ago:
Are you what Americans consider a communist or an actual one? Cause in Europe you will find that what Americans consider far left in politics is actually right of center still.
- Comment on Arrowhead CEO admits: Helldivers 2's balancing isn't what it should be 1 week ago:
The team reloads should not require the teammate to wear the backpack. I’ll bet it would be used more then.
- Comment on Arrowhead CEO admits: Helldivers 2's balancing isn't what it should be 1 week ago:
If the strategy is looking at “what most people use” and “what is overrepresented in the win stats” you will always end up nerfing what is fun and popular.
So I’d suggest smaller changes… off course fix bugs and stuff that does not work as intended… but balance a weapon … and go on to the next. Also decide what a weapon is supposed to do… sniper shotguns should not exist… neither CQB dmr’s.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Illegal and out of their jurisdiction
Illegal means against the law… so no.
Out of their jurisdiction, Steam is Valve’s platform, so no again.Valve is the seller in this case, who will be liable for the agreement they have with their customers. If one of their sold product is going to end up massively refunded, who do you think will be processing these? Then Valve has to turn around and get the money from Sony… guess how Valve estimates that will go.
So step 1 for Valve is limit exposure by stopping sales where you expect issues.
Step 2 is analyzing the potential for refunds in other countries and limiting there as well if deemed to big a risk.I can only imagine that feedback from Valve to Sony played a role in the decision to not push forward. As large corporations only speak money… the cost benefit made at Sony must have missed some things to have it now skew the other way.
I’ll believe the account requirement will be totally in the past IF the sales to the non PSN countries are reinstated. Cause why limit your customers to countries if that is not necessary.
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 week ago:
Dreadfully true
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 week ago:
Actively destroying evidence should mean automatic ondertal of the worst.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And all the different interfaces that lack basic functionality… and proper filters.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 2 weeks ago:
Most likely all connections are run through the gateway of the company allowing them to apply security to all web traffic on their clients.
It might hinder you but there is plenty of method to this madness.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 2 weeks ago:
They did not promote it. It was a keynote on the potential of the current economic trends. It was more a warning than anything else… the problem is… 1984 was also not supposed to be a manual.
- Comment on FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing 2 weeks ago:
I was in the miraikan museum in Tokyo once where they had a whole exposition on tracking masses in order to optimize traffic flow (pedestrian, car and public transit). A big part of the 3xpo was the privacy first approach. They u derstood that in order to get I to the real traffic patterns they would have to record vast amounts of sensitive data and went through great lengths to protect privacy.
I wish this was more common.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 2 weeks ago:
They should manage the organization and stay the fuck away from the product.
Only really mature product owners that understand what they are doing and LOVE the product they are making should be allowed near your product… and they will work with devs to make something wonderful.
Satisfactory, Valheim, manor lords, enshrouded… just a few examples of product that is loved. And it shows.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages 2 weeks ago:
Locking the barn after the horse is stolen.
- Comment on Net neutrality is about to make a comeback 3 weeks ago:
Just like the return of net neutrality, abolishing of non-compete clauses in labor contracts, and a long list of other improvement made under Biden.
What I mean to say, don’t be blind to all the hood things happening amidst the shit storm that is the current US political theatre.
- Comment on Net neutrality is about to make a comeback 3 weeks ago:
At least you want to prevent roads being dug up by a range of companies installing duplicate services. Each house only needs 1 fiber to them… everything can come though that fiber…
I dunno of nationalizing is needed, or if heavily regulating is enough. This is done with water system, high voltage and mid voltage power too… so the model is familiar.
At least separating the medium from the services and offering the medium under a FRAND model means that also the service providers will keep the medium provider honest and the service providers will compete with eachother for the customer. On quality, service, price and whatever they can think of.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 3 weeks ago:
The fact that the current TikTok that is served to the world is illegal in China should tell you a lot.
Rest of world it peddles brain dead influencers to kids. In China it is almost wholesome and helps educate children…
Giving a Chinese multinational control over mass marketing to your children means it will be used for their goals… and not just serve as a capitalist add pushing platform.
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 3 weeks ago:
Might I suggest the employees unionize. That way they can make a fist and punch this guy in the proverbial dick.
- Comment on Net neutrality is about to make a comeback 3 weeks ago:
Or you separate the infra from the provider. So all fiber is put into company A and the service offering is done by companies that buy capacity on the lines.
Regulate the shit out of the infra company and let the service offering co pa iets compete. You will see datacaps disappear and prices drop in no time.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 3 weeks ago:
Lower sales > Lower profits > cuts across the board (except c level) > lower quality > lower sales … aka the death spiral… hope they can halt the decline but their unique position as the only real electric car brand ended 5 years ago… with their prices they compete with Audi, Mercedes, BMW, and the other premium brands.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
A clearing?
- Comment on Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates on April 25 4 weeks ago:
Nope, most of their Custer base are like heroin addicts. Even if its stepped on and cut with ground up to light, they will still buy it. So why bother.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
More exploitation probably.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But why should the gains from this go to a private organization. Either the current owner does this and realizes the gains. Or the city does this and the city treasury should be entitled to the profit. It is absolute horsesgit that we find this kind of leeching acceptable.
- Comment on Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 1 month ago:
Or, these consoles will be made using extremely high tech chips and other parts that can easily double as cockpit displays and flight controllers in missiles.
- Comment on There is no EU cookie banner law 1 month ago:
Does the law not specify that accepting and rejecting should be just as easy? And companies simply ignore that.
If I can just hit a reject all button it would be fine, a plugin can do that too.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 1 month ago:
That’s fair. I think most people can make up their own minds looking at the thread, posts contents and then their own experience in the .ml scape.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 1 month ago:
LoL… project much?