Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
Also, slave labor.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of the customer base you built with initially cheap subscriptions / good service.
First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.
Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.
When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won’t sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can’t use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won’t leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn’t have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won’t leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. “What’s a few more bucks a month, what’s a little additional ad before my game loads, what’s a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers”. That’s the enshittification part.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 weeks ago:
This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time. That’s what economy is.
The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn’t diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can’t fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 3 weeks ago:
Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 3 weeks ago:
Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven’t seen from them, so let’s hope that’ll work out.
I’m hyped.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 3 weeks ago:
If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Asssange.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 weeks ago:
Garbage out is what he aims for.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank 4 weeks ago:
You first.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
Ok, but which? Can you sue them if Galaxy, a free tool that they provide for convenience and that isn’t required for the actual service, doesn’t work, or if it breaks a game? Name one thing.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use galaxy.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn’t work you can download games from the website.
Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 5 weeks ago:
I genuinely don’t get the “don’t pre order just buy the day it releases” thing.
Nobody ever said the second part.
Don’t pre order, wait for reviews a couple weeks after release, buy if reviews are good and no major bullshit is discovered.
What do you think you’re winning?
Avoiding the major bullshit.
Also, even if you did just buy day one: If developers have a lot of pre orders they know they’ll sell anyway they have less of an incentive to deliver the highest possible quality.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
So does Galaxy?
Let’s say I have not yet had to do a full reinstall of heroic and multiple associated games because something got unfixably borked during an update.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 5 weeks ago:
Nah. Half of Europe is just 5-10 years behind the USA, as usual on pretty much any dystopian development.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
Even fewer people game on Mac than on Linux (judging by the Steam survey). I bet it’s not that they can’t they just don’t care.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 weeks ago:
Heroic works better than Galaxy does in Windows. They should just pay the Heroic devs for their work and make that their official launcher.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t look like wood to me.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Why would the sword shatter but not the shield?
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.
It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.
Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be looked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 1 month ago:
I’ll make a note to get back to you about this in a few years when they start blocking people from correcting AI authored articles.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Yup. And MS had to bribe the city of Munich with moving their German HQ there to make them switch back.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 1 month ago:
Must be an oversight, maybe write them a kindly worded e-mail to let them know.
- Comment on My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet) 1 month ago:
Yeah, I always explore everything I can reach first, although if I encounter a boss that I can’t even scratch I won’t stick around for a 37 minute fight ;) so I have some things to return to.
I’m level 40 now and the story bosses are just not scary anymore. But so far I still enjoy being a bit overpowered at times so it’s fine.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 month ago:
And just like that we’re at silly made up hypothetical situations to drive fear and an agenda. That’s not even worth entertaining.
It’s all hypothetical until it isn’t anymore. You’re literally the slowly boiled frog.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 month ago:
As long as people get punished for pirating media, corporations need to license their shit just as well.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
Ok. You’re often tired, but coffee gives you super strength, Popeye style.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 month ago:
What else would it be coming from on the exact same hardware?
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 month ago:
Wow. I already wasn’t going to buy any more Bethesda slop, but now I’m not going to buy it twice.
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 1 month ago:
Sooooo … You people don’t have signs? Because my car can read those.