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- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 6 hours ago:
You're right.
In Western regions (North America and Europe) around 2009, the video game industry saw the success of Zynga and other large publishers of social-network games that offered the games for free on sites like Facebook but included microtransactions to accelerate one's progress in the game, providing that publishers could depend on revenue from post-sale transactions rather than initial sale.[23] One of the first games to introduce loot box-like mechanics was FIFA 09, made by Electronic Arts (EA), in March 2009 which allowed players to create a team of association football players from in-game card packs they opened using in-game currency earned through regular playing of the game or via microtransactions.[26] Another early game with loot box mechanics was Team Fortress 2 in September 2010, when Valve added the ability to earn random "crates" to be opened with purchased keys.[13] Valve's Robin Walker stated that the intent was to create "network effects" that would draw more players to the game, so that there would be more players to obtain revenue from the keys to unlock crates.[23] Valve later transitioned to a free-to-play model, reporting an increase in player count of over 12 times after the transition,[25] and hired Yanis Varoufakis to research virtual economies.[27] Over the next few years many MMOs and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBAs) also transitioned to a free-to-play business model to help grow out their player base, many adding loot-box monetisation in the process,[25][28] with the first two being both Star Trek Online[29] and The Lord of the Rings Online[citation needed] in December 2011.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 15 hours ago:
I think it's more bad because they were the first one to introduce all those predatory mechanics
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 15 hours ago:
The subscription is €5 a month
- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 1 week ago:
I don't think this was a suggestion, just a showerthought based on existing mobile app behavior
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 1 week ago:
I don't think he was that rich... surely there's richer Americans who opposed even richer Americans and got knocked down, like at least Aaron Swartz.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
you're outright lying/trolling about the conclusion
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
some apps are paid
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
even being Apple-notarized (what you mean by "approved") doesn't mean it'll be in the Apple App Store
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
confusingly the article leaves out what normal altstore does: install any app provided its file and a connection to a computer (while installing) for seven days
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Now, alongside the additional funding, AltStore is launching its own Mastodon server, running on the ActivityPub protocol, where users will be able to view app updates and new information from the sources they follow. Developers can opt in to have their app updates published to the new server.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
I've never heard this about DHH or Omarchy
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 weeks ago:
on mobile rn, how well does that do inline links?
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 weeks ago:
just general vlogs about their interests
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 weeks ago:
I much prefer browsing the web instead of 2-clicking within each FTP path. (If you built a client to 2-click that for you then that's just the HTTP web with extra steps.)
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 weeks ago:
I sympathize, but Gopher is designed against hypertext (inline links in text)
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 2 weeks ago:
im ded guys
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Haunting Ground
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Kingdom Hearts
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
No Final Fantasy because I'm not even sure where to start!
Final Fantasy is somewhat of an anthology: each major installment (just "Final Fantasy" plus a roman numeral, nothing else) takes place in an entirely different world and thus includes its own tutorial. You can start anywhere, like Final Fantasy X, which was one of the most acclaimed FF releases and happened to be on the PS2.
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 3 weeks ago:
It seems like at least changing annually would be better than the current system.
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 3 weeks ago:
In theory, this should make games "more accessible to a larger audience." But, as Water CS2 says, "The problem lies in the data Valve uses to make these suggestions." According to the YouTuber, Valve hasn't updated its conversion rates since 2022, when it first introduced the regional pricing system. At that point in time, "the Polish currency was near its weakest" – but Steam is still "using this weak old rate" from three years ago.
- Comment on Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT. 3 weeks ago:
LIDAR, baby!
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 3 weeks ago:
That would've set a bad precedent. But then again he pardoned his son.
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 3 weeks ago:
and the biden administration could've decided on a top-down instead of bottom-up approach to prioritizing prosecution
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
YouTube Music has only been raising prices as much as Tidal (and everything except Spotify and Deezer), too; I'm not sure what OP is on about the price.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Where are you seeing prices trending towards $30?
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 4 weeks ago:
I'm fairly sure Anubis was made because some crawlers did run JavaScript
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 4 weeks ago:
That's a local AI agent not an online crawler
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 4 weeks ago:
thanks for the detailed analysis!
i'm curious though, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#List_of_reactor_designs says the design with the largest output is just 940 MWe and the second-largest output 600 MWe, are you sure they should be at least 1 GWe or am i reading something wrong?
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 4 weeks ago:
is this not cost? https://github.com/ryanjenkinson/data-centre-modelling/blob/main/notebooks/costs_2020.csv
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36360469/read-nc-netcdf-files-using-python. and regardless, is a single file you don't understand that is clearly read by the notebooks as input solar data enough for you to evaluate competence‽