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- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 20 hours ago:
To be clear, the original comment I responded to said:
looks at Hytale doing quite well without even touching Steam
In response to a comment that said:
There are laws that say that abusing a monopoly is illegal. Steam is objectively a monopoly in pc games. Sure, you don’t have to use it, but it is basically impossible for indie developers to make a living without it.
I never moved the goalposts; modern indie devs were always the goalpost.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 day ago:
Notably, almost none of those are indie games, and almost any indie game that you did list came out in the 2000s like Roblox, before Steam was the behemoth it is today. Half of them are games by the same sets of AAA studios like Epic Games, Blizzard, and MiHoYo, and most Blizzard games have an entire franchise of games older than Steam itself to piggyback off of. Speaking of, anything by Blizzard isn’t even true… their most recent games like Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 are both on Steam. Tarkov is also on Steam now, but I’ll admit I’m splitting hairs here since it spent nearly a decade off of it. Though the fact that it released on Steam with its 1.0 update does say something.
So I really don’t think any of those games aside from debatably Tarkov shows that modern indie devs can be successful outside of Steam.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 day ago:
Got any other modern examples than just the one game that had a massive following for the last 7 years of development?
- Comment on PSA: There's a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC 3 days ago:
$30 for a cosmetic DLC with like 4 items in it is crazy regardless. Especially for $40 game with a $13/month subscription.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 4 days ago:
You’re telling me chocolate isn’t some natural pre-existing resource? Smh. Next you’re going to tell me chocolate milk doesn’t come from chocolate milk cows.
- Comment on Day 560 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
I’m not into photography so I could be mistaken. But from what I’ve gathered, power points are the four points where the lines intersect in the rule of thirds (or the four corners of the middle box). Supposedly the eye is drawn to these four points of an image.
- Comment on Plague Inc: Evolved gets a "vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck" 6 days ago:
It’s hard to say if there’s any new differences, as the FaQ listing them hasn’t been updated once in the last decade. But if the mobile version is getting new content like the steam version, I’d say they’re probably getting the same updates.
The big changes are multiplayer (both a competitive mode and cooperative mode), all of the expansions come with the game for free, and general UI improvements. Plus you have access to a Steam Workshop full of custom scenarios. Most of which are low effort shit posts (see: “femboyitis"), but there are plenty of high quality ones in there.
- Comment on Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Official Trailer 1 week ago:
I will say that, while the other comment comparing it to Minecraft isn’t wrong to do so, you shouldn’t go in expecting some 1:1, 2D Minecraft experience. Because while they have plenty of similar features, the core of each game is quite different. Minecraft for example is primarily a sandbox game, with lite survival elements sprinkled in. You’re mostly just there to build and farm and do whatever the hell you want, and the game doesn’t differ greatly between peaceful and hard. Terraria on the other hand is primarily an action game with some survival elements. Sure, you can build huge, beautiful cathedrals if you’d like, but unlike Minecraft that’s not really where the game shines at all. Terraria instead shines in it’s exploration (especially when you’re new to the game) and combat.
- Comment on Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 1 week ago:
True, though as far as I’m aware our sun will destroy Earth and its moon long before it manages to break free.
- Comment on Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 1 week ago:
I mean in the grand scheme of things, all moons, planets, and even stars are doomed eventually. For a species with an average life expectancy of 80-some years, there ain’t much of a difference in 50 million and 5 billion years anyway.
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 1 week ago:
A welcome change imo. The morality system in the Fable games were always heavily lopsided, with one side being strictly superior than the other. Though I will say that I did like the cosmetic changes it made.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 1 week ago:
They do want to be more focused on the gamer. That is, more focused on how to extract as much money from gamers as possible with as little work on their end as they can get away with.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 week ago:
I picked up Lawnchair when I de-googled my phone a bit more than a year ago. There were a couple launchers I considered, but honestly the name is what sold me. And I haven’t missed Nova since.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 week ago:
What challenge? HL2 is not a particularly difficult game. And there isn’t going to be any joy in overcoming whatever challenge you’re talking about if they’re hating every second of the game. Its not like we’re talking about a souls-like where they cheated because they couldn’t defeat a boss. No, they cheated because they got bored, not because of some imaginary skill issue.
And they’re not better off quitting if they still want to know how the game ends.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 week ago:
The professor oak challenge is rough lol. I tried it out on Pokemon Silver and must have spent well over 10 hours grinding to get my Feraligatr.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 week ago:
What does that have to do with anything? If someone’s mentally checked out of the game so much that continuing to play through it becomes a slog, I can’t blame them for cheating just to get it over with.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 week ago:
As someone who has in fact completed both the original Gen 1 and the full Gen 2 Pokedex (including Mew and MissingNo.), I genuinely can’t imagine playing through a Pokemon game without at least completing the regional pokedex. Collecting the creatures is what I play those types of games for.
And the reward isn’t the little completion diploma Oak gives you to print out. It’s the self satisfaction that comes with finishing your goal. Like getting all the achievements in a game; I don’t get anything whatsoever for that, but I still like to do it. Because I’m a completionist.
- Comment on You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming 2 weeks ago:
I was very happy when I saw this change on Steam. So tired of looking at the comments of some game’s patch notes only to see blatant homophobia and transphobia with 500 clown awards as one of the top comments. I mean, people will probably still do it, because people are assholes. But at least they’re not getting rewarded for it anymore.
- Comment on New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far 2 weeks ago:
Further proof that humanity is incapable of learning from their mistakes.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 weeks ago:
How brave, using Google Chrome to protest Microsoft… with an extension that only changes things locally. I promise that Microsoft doesn’t care one iota about you renaming things to Microslop with an extension. This is like proudly calling yourself a protester because you hung a sign up in your room where nobody else can see it. I guess it could annoy them a tiny bit if they see it become really popular I guess?
In other news, it’s really funny seeing an AI summary at the top of this article.
- Comment on Amazon's once-hailed fantasy MMO New World will vanish from servers in a year's time 2 weeks ago:
Rock and Stone! Games like DRG and Helldivers 2, with a heavy focus on cooperative PvE, have always appealed to me waaaay more than any of the more popular multiplayer games like CoD or something. I’d rather work with other players than fight them, 100% of the time.
- Comment on Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have to replay Halo 4 at some point. I remember liking it more than most people seem to, and I probably would have rated it like a solid 7/10. Not amazing, but not quite mediocre either.
Then again, I haven’t played it since it first came out, and I was far less critical of games back then.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Was expecting to see “install Linux” in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.
- Comment on Ah yes, a Palworld card game is on the way, can't think of any other creature collector that has one of those 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the protagonist and a couple friends could go traveling around the world with the goal of capturing all the different Pals, that’d be cool.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 2 weeks ago:
Slammed!!!
Have journalists never heard of a thesaurus?
- Comment on Day 542 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
They were added a month ago when they did the winter event. The devs only vaguely hinted at new ghosts in the patch notes, and I actually thought the hint was instead talking about the krampus model they give the ghost during the event. I was very surprised when I got on to look at the overhauled journal and saw three new ghosts hidden in there.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 3 weeks ago:
The day he says something I agree with is the day I reevaluate everything I believe.
- Comment on Day 542 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The three newest ghost types have been a lot of fun to play against. My one friend has taken to calling the Obambo “Obama”, which has lead to some interesting quotes like “Obama’s trying to eat my ass :(”. Have you encountered any of them yet?
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes we gotta think about our wants and think are they really a need? Or can we get by with less till the alternatives can get better.
It’s not really that simple. I don’t need to convince my entire friend group to switch to Lemmy in order to get some use out of it. Best I can do is convince people to use modded discord clients like vencord and aliucord for most nitro features instead of paying for it.
- Comment on Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava 3 weeks ago:
Cube chick is definitely the best of the bunch, though they’re all winners here. Better baby animals were long overdue.