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- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
I think you're discounting just how much they've invested and continue to invest in Proton/WINE
I'm not really sure I am... Do we have some actual numbers into how much money they've sunk in linux?
Gaming on linux is a huge community effort, whether it's wine, dxvk, vkd3d, mesa, linux itself... and plenty of smaller projects like lutris, bottles, UMU... And all this spans literal decades, far before valve ever got involved. - Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
It annoys me too that Valve is getting most of the credit for Proton while most of the work is actually done in winehq, dxvk... I'm sure Valve pays for some development here and there, and greases some developer wheels, but the main thing does is be a front end for consumers.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
You missed my point, I only used AMD as an example because it's listed in the thread.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
My point being that while valve itself has only 350 employees, it subcontracts far more than that.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
These stats don't include subcontractors and as such they're very misleading. For example, who do you think produces the GPUs inside the steam deck? Hint: it's not Valve.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 4 months ago:
The whole thing never made much sense anyways, machines would be without scrupules and cut off any redundancies like extra limbs, they'd probably just keep your brain in a jar.
- Comment on Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen 4 months ago:
"Tiny11" disables windows update... might aswell get windows 7.
But yeah VMs and winehq work fine from linux. - Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces 7 months ago:
Obviously they made the announcement at an opportune moment, but blizz wouldn't be making this change if it didn't coincide with their bottom line.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces 7 months ago:
I don't see the correlation between those and making new heroes free. Maybe as a way to douse the community flames.
I think it's simply because people want to play the new content. While some cave and buy the battlepass, it doesn't offset the losses of the grind and paywall that stops people from coming back and investing to begin with. - Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces 7 months ago:
It's a good change for sure, but the cynic in me can't help but think they're doing this solely because they believe it'll make them more money in the long run.