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brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

No dev should consider releasing their game on the private store/platform of an evil corporation that promotes gambling to kids and who’s ceo is a billionare with a fleet of megayachts. Many devs have no better option because they are trying to make a living and catch up with life (unlike valve ceo who makes billions through questionable practices). If the market is so much centralized around certain publishers and distribuition platforms you can thank greedy corporations that for decades shaped the system to be what it is.

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Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
So in your mind, no one who is self-publishing a book should put it on Amazon. No one who is trying to sell their product on etsy should use PayPal. No one who is just trying to get rid of a few things around the house should use Facebook Marketplace… etc…

Welcome to reality. Sometimes the best of a bunch of bad options has to do. Should these companies all be put int he ground. Yes. But if we let perfect be the enemy of good, we never make any progress.

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- brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  So in your mind, no one who is self-publishing a book should put it on Amazon. No one who is trying to sell their product on etsy should use PayPal. No one who is just trying to get rid of a few things around the house should use Facebook Marketplace… etc…
  
  Exactly, don’t use these platforms they belong to evil corporations who among other things are helping israel government in a genocide
  
  en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_companies_involved_in_…
  
  Welcome to reality. Sometimes the best of a bunch of bad options has to do. Should these companies all be put int he ground. Yes. But if we let perfect be the enemy of good, we never make any progress.
  
  You are on lemmy defending corporations, ask yourself, are you making progress?
  
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  - Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’m not defending anybody.
    
    I’m saying that if you’re an author (for example) that wants to self publish instead of trying to find a big publisher to accept your manuscript, what are you going to do? Email a copy to anyone who wants to buy it? No…of course not. Similarly, if you’re a dev who wants to release a game without going through a big publisher like Activision or Bethesda or whatever…what are you going to do? Other than Steam and Itch.io, there aren’t many places to do that.
    
    Does it suck? Yes. But the reality is that if we want to get our work out into the public, regardless of monetary concerns, we have to roll around in one mud puddle or another. Our only choice (until that changes) is to choose how deep of a puddle we choose.
    
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    brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    if you’re a dev who wants to release a game without going through a big publisher like Activision or Bethesda or whatever…what are you going to do?
    
    I write about it here on lemmy
    
    Other than Steam and Itch.io, there aren’t many places to do that.
    
    Why there aren’t many places to do that? How was it in the past? What changed? How you can improve that?
    
    Does it suck? Yes. But the reality is that if we want to get our work out into the public, regardless of monetary concerns, we have to roll around in one mud puddle or another.
    
    To me it sounds like the reality is that you are choosing visibility over doing what is good
    
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