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- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 4 weeks ago:
In that case, I clearly stand corrected! Thank you for the reply.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 4 weeks ago:
The biggest problem with Stadia was not the technical implementation but the business model: you had to pay for both a subscription to use the service and additionally a license to play particular games on the service (though there were also some free games). And of all the companies to even attempt such a business model, it is harder to think of a company that had the least chance of making it work than Google because almost no one believed that the licenses they paid for would be good for anything in a couple of years. In fairness, Google did refund these purchases when it shut down Stadia, and this was absolutely the right call, but it is also befuddling because, if they had been planning on doing this anyway, they could have told everyone at the beginning and made people a lot less wary of spending money on Stadia!
- Comment on From Baldur's Gate to Rogue Trader, the latest RPG-themed Humble Bundle is a horrifying assault on your time 6 months ago:
Not true at all. They started as a game bundler, and branched out into publishing games..
Also, all of their bundles and sales continue to feature donations to charity.
- Comment on From Baldur's Gate to Rogue Trader, the latest RPG-themed Humble Bundle is a horrifying assault on your time 6 months ago:
Is it just me, or this article basically just an ad, and not a particularly well written one?
- Comment on From Baldur's Gate to Rogue Trader, the latest RPG-themed Humble Bundle is a horrifying assault on your time 6 months ago:
You are probably thinking about Humble Games, which is a sibling company. Humble Bundle has been a multi pack sale company for its entire existence.