There seems to be a significant quality gap between publicly traded and private gaming companies.
Comment on Valve Engineering
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Not just gaming companies. I watch every prodct from a listed compny with suspicion by now.
Wfh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That and Formula 1 sponsors are the most sus companies in the world.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And NASCAR. Du Pont has been caught secretly poisoning the US’s water multiple times now
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
The problem is first sale doctrine applies to the physical media which carries the license of its own content.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s called renting. A thing for over thousands of years.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nothing says rent.
gabmus@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Sure, this comic edit is just for the fun of it
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
They did the same on the first model!
ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
Minnels@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Several! You could have different ones on different controllers.
jlow@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
They did what now? 🤯
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haptics motors make sound, you can control the pitch by how fast you make the haptics vibrate. Map the vibrate speed to audio frequencies and you can play sounds
Like how they can make an F1 engine play happy birthday youtu.be/Tr4zb-HHZs4
Or floppy drives play music
youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZE