mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 4 days ago:
“Painful” could easily (and mostly likely) refer to extremely low profit margins that would take several years to pay off the development costs. And that quote specifically refers to the base 64GB version. The price difference between that and the 256GB version was way more than the increase in storage costs, despite that being the only difference.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 5 days ago:
I though that was Shia Lebouf
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 5 days ago:
They were definitely selling at a huge loss with the original prices
No they weren’t. There is literally 0 proof of that. Quit spreading misinformation
- Comment on Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike 6 days ago:
It made some rounds on Lemmy 2-3 days ago
- Comment on Valve make adjustments to Steam tags, and they settled the Vampire Survivor-like argument with Bullet Heaven 2 weeks ago:
Vampire Survivors and games inspired by it are the inverse of the bullet hell genre. Hence the the name “bullet heaven”
- Comment on Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well 2 weeks ago:
The reason none of your haptic controllers played tunes is because the programmers never got to have fun with it, not from a lack of ability.
Go look at 3D printers, most of them use their motors to make little beeps and jingles as feedback to the user. I even have custom gcode that gets added to every print so a tune is played when the print is done. That’s actually useful because I don’t need to wonder whether it’s done and check on it like a pot that’s about to boil
- Comment on California Protect Our Games Act backed by Stop Killing Games passes key hurdle 2 weeks ago:
Who are the 2 mf’ers who voted against?
- Comment on Build a star-system wide factory in the incremental game Starvester 2 weeks ago:
Looks good. I’ve got an itch that this game may scratch. Hopefully it has upgrades like orbital rings and skyhooks
- Comment on Steam Controller: Dropped and doubled inputs?! Bad connection?! 2 weeks ago:
Finally, the pairing process is straight up laughable. Connect the controller to your puck to try to pair it, and it prompts you on screen to confirm? How am I supposed to agree to pair it if my controller isn’t paired in the first place??
Who doesn’t have a cheap-ass mouse for stuff like this?
- Comment on Valve Engineering 3 weeks ago:
And NASCAR. Du Pont has been caught secretly poisoning the US’s water multiple times now
- Comment on If you use Emudeck to play Wii U games, you may have malware 3 weeks ago:
Maybe now they’ll figure out that they need to vote Netanyahu out of office for being a genocidal piece of shit
- Comment on Valve fix Steam Controller double inputs with the Puck - Steam Deck gets configurable Track Pad Locking 3 weeks ago:
Great. Now can we please fix the same issue for the original Steam Controller on the Deck?
- Comment on Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th 3 weeks ago:
Is adding a F2P game or a demo a purchase in this context?
No
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nobody cares
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There’s one listed for $500 on Ebay
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They did do it with the controller though
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 4 weeks ago:
Require an account three months old, at least one verified purchase in the past year, ten hours played across any title(s).
Most of this was already implemented. Valve required accounts to be at least 1 year old with at least one purchase. They did the same for the Steam Deck
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 4 weeks ago:
Aren’t most of those scalpers?
While there are some scalpers, there is 0 evidence to the claim that “most” sales are for scaplers. Quit spreading misinformation.
- Comment on "They responded only to the press": Wizards of the Coast miss deadline for recognising Magic: The Gathering Arena union 4 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on 50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week 4 weeks ago:
Ton, or tonne? There’s a difference
- Comment on Steam Controller is Out of Stock 4 weeks ago:
Only via bluetooth, which has significantly more lag
- Comment on Looking for a battery bar for the [deck] 1 month ago:
One of the Game Mode overlays already has a timer in the top right corner that estimates your remaining battery life
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director "really proud" the gay romance he pushed for, which is somehow totally different to "woke" games' representation, is up for awards 1 month ago:
As someone who’s only seen a playthroufgh of the original game (I do intend to play it… Eventually), I can see Henry x Hans happening naturally. I personally doubt I’d do that romance path, but they already laid the groundwork to be a natural option
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 1 month ago:
I wish the alpakka 2’s kickstarted had exceeded. That would have been sweet
- Comment on "I couldn't protect it" Pete Hines says he left Microsoft-owned Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it be "damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused" 1 month ago:
The old Bethesda uses the same old engine from 30 years ago
Tell us you’re a fucking moron who has no idea what they’re saying without telling us you’re a moron who has no idea what you’re saying.
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
You seem to not understand what “profit” means.
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
Sure, a lot of this is likely funded by Fortnite
If it needs to be subsidized by Fortnite then it’s by definition not profitable
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
Why do people like you always have to defend what a company does all the time?
Because it’s pretty fucking obvious that the 12% cut was just Tim Swiney trying to grab market share for EGS without actually putting in the work to develop it.
Remember how it took over 2 years for them to add a cart? Remember how they just laid off 1000 employees? Using Fortnite money to pay for exclusive deals and game givaways instead of actually developing the store hasn’t turned out profitable.
Also, ever notice how nobody was complaining about Steam’s cut before that? And let’s not forget that Steam Greenlight and subsequent opening up of allowing nearly any game onto their platform is what made the indie market more than an extremely small niche. Or the fact that much of the 30% cut is getting reinvested into Linux and FOSS to keep PC gaming an open ecosystem, which benefits everyone, including indie studioa
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
Plus, their investment into Linux gaming and FOSS in general are preventing PC gaming from being locked down to a singled OS that becomes a walled garden.
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 1 month ago:
Also note that nobody was saying this before Tim Swiney started trying to break into the marlet