Comment on Valve Engineering

lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 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!

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They did the same on the first model!

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    • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.

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      • Minnels@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Several! You could have different ones on different controllers.

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  • jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They did what now? 🤯

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There seems to be a significant quality gap between publicly traded and private gaming companies.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is where all this shit began in the modern era

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not just gaming companies. I watch every prodct from a listed compny with suspicion by now.

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    • Wfh@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That and Formula 1 sponsors are the most sus companies in the world.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And NASCAR. Du Pont has been caught secretly poisoning the US’s water multiple times now

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s called renting. A thing for over thousands of years.

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• gabmus@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure, this comic edit is just for the fun of it

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