There seems to be a significant quality gap between publicly traded and private gaming companies.
Comment on Valve Engineering
lordnikon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Because Valve is one of the few tech companies that still wants to have fun and be silly like tech used to be. Before we entered the hell scape tech feudalism era.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
lordnikon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah because public companies are just investment scams now. The product they make is not their primary revenue. Once CEOs figured out you can just say shit on social media and juice the stock. Its market manipulation all the way down. At least with private companies its still about making a product or service and serving your customers and no private equity doesn’t count that is a different scam. Where you offload debit.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They can also choose to intentionally make slightly less money if there’s something they want to do first, or spend resources/time on stuff that doesn’t bring in revenue. In a publicly traded company, the investors can sue for mishandling their investment.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Not just gaming companies. I watch every prodct from a listed compny with suspicion by now.
Wfh@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
That and Formula 1 sponsors are the most sus companies in the world.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
And NASCAR. Du Pont has been caught secretly poisoning the US’s water multiple times now
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
tech feudalism
I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.
Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah I agree but that maybe more to the publishers not allowing that that to me would be achieved through regulation just like with the refunds. First sale was not something publishers wanted just a feature of having physical media. Also there is a myth that all steam games are DRMed. There are may games that run without steam being open but that is up to the publisher. Stuff like family sharing they added is them bring value to customers while walking a fine line with the publishers.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
maybe more to the publishers not allowing that
It’s not up to publishers. Publishers tried to put a disclaimer on books preventing cheap resale. The Supreme Court struck it down and it was written into law over 100 years ago.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
The problem is first sale doctrine applies to the physical media which carries the license of its own content.
tomiant@piefed.social 5 hours ago
It’s called renting. A thing for over thousands of years.
gabmus@retrolemmy.com 10 hours ago
Sure, this comic edit is just for the fun of it
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
And like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level.
The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
They did the same on the first model!
ShadowRam@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
Minnels@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Several! You could have different ones on different controllers.
jlow@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
They did what now? 🤯