Kecessa
@Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year 4 weeks ago:
So the company still gained, but with that money they could have cut 300 less employees and that would have been 300 people making 100k/year instead of one guy making 30.6m more…
- Comment on That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed 5 weeks ago:
Do they launch the actual EA launcher or Ubisoft Connect and you can buy your games from there and install them without giving Valve their cut?
- Comment on That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed 5 weeks ago:
What are you referring to? Because in this case Steam would be getting a certain amount once for you to be able to playing hundreds or thousands of games on another platform
- Comment on Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve 1 month ago:
On my (all AMD) computer it dropped the display signal as soon a there was load on the GPU when running Bazzite, so I went with Mint instead where I had to fuck around to make my wifi antenna work 🤷 Too bad because Bazzite looked awesome…
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 1 month ago:
Just hack it
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Oh so you’re just another one of the people for whom if it’s Valve don’t it then it’s ok, funny how your principles go out the window for this one company.
Gabe aa multi billionaire buddy, Valve also made billions exploiting people’s weaknesses, the only difference is that it ends up in one guy’s pockets instead of shareholders.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
So you’re not giving Valve money either, right? Want some hats?
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Heroic
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
So you don’t see value in studios getting guaranteed financing in exchange for timed exclusivity instead of having to rely on the lottery that comes with releasing on all/other platforms?
It’s not as if the studios were obligated to sign with Epic either, they just look at the offers on the table and they figure that “Hey, we’ve got financial obligations to meet, including paying our employees, maybe it’s not such a bad idea to get some money upfront.”
It’s the same as choosing between a salaried job vs one where you’re working 100% for commission…
Also your argument would work if you and others were boycotting games that only release on Steam because they end up having a ton of exclusives, the only difference is that they have them because of the size of their user base, they don’t need to give anything in exchange for it, just the hope that the game will sell more is enough to make devs and publishers ignore the other platforms and if their games don’t sell enough on Steam only then too bad, they don’t have anything to back themselves with.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
So the thing that you want is something that is available on Epic.
Yay monopoly!
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
They’re not making enough profit on Epic because people prefer feeding Steam’s monopoly and would rather wait for the game to come to that platform than purchase it on a platform where the devs would get a bigger share of the sale. It’s not that they don’t make enough profit per copy on Epic, it’s that the number of customers isn’t high enough to compensate.
The social stuff is bloat, you need the platform to purchase and launch your games, that’s it, they already have all essentials like being able to automatically join friends in multiplayer games, why do they need crap like cards or forums (which are better as a third party administered by people who don’t have a financial incentive to hide complaints).
No matter how much they make their platform similar to Steam, you’ll find another reason not to buy on it, people are still complaining about shit they fixed years ago like not having a cart or achievements.
It’s very funny to see people on Lemmy (of all places) pushing for centralization.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Maybe if you appreciate the studio and their work you should buy the game where they will make the most profit from the sale.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
And Valve and Epic and EA and Blizzard and Amazon and…
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 2 months ago:
Or review it on other platforms
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
I’ve had to fuck around with my Windows saves (backed to the cloud) when installing the Linux version of Wasteland 2 and the two Pillars of Eternity games and I eventually just gave up and installed them with Proton so it would download the saves to the right place for them to work.
If you play Deadfire on multiple Linux devices you need to install with Proton compatibility otherwise cloud saves don’t work at all because Steam doesn’t back up the right folder (it uses the Windows folder name which has a lower case o in the word Of), that means that if you wipe your hard drive and rely on cloud saves then you’re fucked because Steam will have created an empty folder to backup.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
Only issue you’ll probably have is if the cloud saves are for a different OS, so if you’re playing on Windows make sure it’s the Proton version of the game that’s installed on the Deck, if you’re playing a native Linux version of the game on your PC then make sure it’s the native Linux version that’s installed on the Deck (usual defaults to the Proton version).
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
Yup!
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
Sooooo… So far the games that were supposedly AAAA have all been crap? Maybe that’s the criteria to differentiate AAA and AAAA.
All bad AAA games shall henceforth be known as AAAA!
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 3 months ago:
Sweats in GameSpy
Honestly, it would probably lead to the major distributors also having control over that… So I guess one more yacht for Gaben?
Kinda funny that people on this platform consider that centralization of the service would be a good thing.
- Comment on Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky. 4 months ago:
I guess OP believes that the disc size has a look with the Deck’s performance? 🤔
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
Would have
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
As we’ve discussed at great length, the Internet Archive’s Open Library system is indistinguishable from the economics of how a regular library works. The Archive either purchases physical books or has them donated (just like a physical library). It then lends them out on a one-to-one basis (leaving aside a brief moment where it took down that barrier when basically all libraries were shut down due to pandemic lockdowns), such that when someone “borrows” a digital copy of a book, no one else can borrow that same copy.
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
They shared them the exact same way regular libraries do it.
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
And that’s the reason why sites like this one shouldn’t be registered and hosted in the USA.
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
All major ones, it’s that simple
- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 5 months ago:
Yep, Windows 8 had a mobile/tablet version.
I also mentioned in another comment that they could simply do the same thing as with the Deck, have it start with a handheld/controller friendly UI (hmmm where could Microsoft’s Xbox division find that?) and give the option to switch to regular old Windows to do desktop stuff. It’s not as if playing on the desktop without a mouse and keyboard attached to the Deck is a fun experience either!
- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 5 months ago:
Well Windows 8 phones were considered to be awesome by those who had one, it’s the lack of support from third party that killed mass adoption.
Also, if we’re looking at the past to decide what is and isn’t possible then gaming on Linux is impossible.
Let’s not pretend that using the desktop on a Deck is a wonderful experience either, Steam’s big picture mode is just a front end that improves the experience and Microsoft could do the equivalent by reusing the Xbox UI with the option to fall back to Windows 11 proper and then people could launch another launcher from there if they wanted. Heck people could launch Steam in big picture mode from their Xbox handheld if they wanted!
- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 5 months ago:
They haven’t done anything to adapt it to handheld controls and a small screen