The long-awaited sequel will start as a paid early access game until it eventually transitions to the same free-to-play model as the original.

There are companies that can operate control by using the money they get from billion of customers, and other companies that prefer to use the money the take from billion of customers to teach citizens how unfair the governments are.

Those who are manipulated in favor of big corps are generally poorly educated individuals, so you can have huge number of that people, which translate in both social, economical and political power.

The point is not Valve, which me or you can respect and enjoy as company, the problem is that laws affect everyone. If the laws favor predatory companies, Valve has either adapt to be predator or being extinguished.

Extremist as defined by who? Valve lets the customer decide what is too extreme for them, which is how it should be.

I think is best also in your interest, as consumer (and human being, if you aren’t Zuckeberg or Bezos) if companies are called accountable for the crap they spread just to make investor happy.

You may like Valve for their way of business, but the law doesn’t work per persona: what it allow is a allowed to everyone (generally and depending if you’re in a theocracy, oligarcy etc.)

I don’t think people shrugged off on Concord because poor quality such as bug or inconsistency. Concord was a fine Overwatch-wannabe that went for hard-sci realism (not as interesting as stylized/cartoon as TeamFortress2 and Overwatch). Pubg had realism, but it was the original trendsetter. CoD aside (which has its own historical fellowship) how many other multiplayer GaaS went successful with that sort of realism as Lawbreakes.

Also, blue water/red water problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

Orange box

In few years, you may find more useful your kidney rather an HD that can hold just 3~4 copies of the latest CoD

That’s pcgamesn: sometime they don’t even put the actual title of the game they are talking about… or even a game in the same genre. They go something like:

“This not Fortnite game, may look like Assassin Creed, but you must be in a Resident Evil to believe it: even Kratos from God of War would say no… just like that random NPC in Red Dead Redemption from the same publisher of the incoming Grand Theft Auto Six (or GTAVI-please notice me sempai Google-Seo)”

That’s not how you make survive a piece of hardware: Valve, stop thinking you are Nintendo, they make almost every new iteration of their hardware to fail, the Switch wasn’t even a successful iteration of the WiiU… they had to kill their Gameboy legacy (DS) to make the Nintendo Switch to appear.

SteamOS ecosystem needs to follow the path of Android. Do like Google did, not Nintendo!

You make you own Linux handheld like Google did their first HTC gPhone, then Google Pixel… then push mobile manufacturer to make their own Android smartphone.

Every other PC handheld coming out today is delivered with Windows, you’re failing with the SteamDeck… Those handheld come with Microsoft’s Store pre-installed, you’re losing the war even if winning few battles, Valve, I am telling ya.

Not everyone remember that the actual first Metal Gear was a microcomputer (PC before it was cool to call that) exclusive… on the MSX2

You get the lemmy crosspost link, and thus Lemmy discussions, from modern source; instead the combines history of all Lemmy posts from years ago.

*Microsot’s videogame business may had been up because they bought videogame business such as ZeniMax/Bethesda/IDSoftware, Activision/Blizzard and Mojang/Minecraft.

The new heroes: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=m9by7sey71M ( youtube )

Crazy the first time I saw this thing was a random game (featured) on Itch.io

addendum: Denuvo is sick of “toxicity,” says people only hate it because it works

VAT in Australia is 10% (ref), but there are other things that effect the overall price (company’s obligation, regulations etc.)

reference to update

You may eared it as Lumberyard, a game engine made by Amazon (after buying a CryEngine’s license) GamefromScratch

…or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.

Anyway, this don’t undermine the intention of the developer.

There’s also a modest proposal for those into satire.

People generally loving, generally hating.

Valve is not that good if you take your time to realize few things more, Valve is not that bad if you take time to realize few things more.

For example, you can’t say that Ubisoft can be that bad if you take a look at the industrial grade artistic output (allow you travel and interact with artistically astonishing worlds).

But when you check side as business entity, you can see everything is set up to please share holders and people that don’t even know “what’s a minecraft?”.

Valve knows how, when and why they mess with their customers. Ubisoft is just clueless about their gamer-customers because they known only theirs shareholders-customers.