vapeloki
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- Comment on 1 day ago:
So. Hosting shared files is the same as hosting a game you sell. And want the people to buy it and not just download, some kind of at least activation? Right?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Because p2p … How exactly does this apply to content distribution? Torrents are not always a reliable option…
- Comment on 2 days ago:
GOG takes 30%, most publishers take 30 to 50%, apple app store takes 30%, as does Google.
Is this to high? Maybe, I don’t publish games. But at least it is not absurd in means of industry standards :(
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Never said that. But what is better for the dev? Using those services or run their own?
And I am fine with Valve making absurd profits, after all, they have put at least 500.000.000 USD into open source (Around 100-200 external oss devs on payroll for projects like Mesa, SDL,…).
Will I leave steam and call valve out if they get toxic? Yes! Are they evil or the enemy right now? To the contrary.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
My day job is designing complex IT platforms.
And the cost goes massive down with size.
So. If your game sells badly, you will most likely spend more. Oney in hosting and distribution then you would make profit.
For example, assume your game has around 50gb. You sell 100 copies of it. You can easily calculate 1-2$ per download.
Add your own personal on top of it, someone has to run that stuff, and licensing and more for statistics tooling and more.
Platforms like valve allow indie devs and small studios to avoid all those costs upfront.
“Not that much” depends on the view
- Comment on 2 days ago:
What exactly is this the answer to?
Yes, they make a shit load of money. But assuming you want to distribute a game directly, how much of would that cost you, and let’s ignore the whole visibility shit for a second.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Hearing those arguments for how many years now? Right …
The day Gabe is bo longer there things may get ugly, may.
But, Valve is not publicly traded, or has to cater to shareholders in any way. That is the reason they are still who they are.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Do You have any idea what the hosting infrastructure, steam works, and traffic costs?
Also, valve is giving massive contributions to open source from those 30%
- Comment on Americans when they are trying to talk back to a fascist: let's have a cosplay party! 4 days ago:
Are you the world now?
- Comment on Americans when they are trying to talk back to a fascist: let's have a cosplay party! 4 days ago:
Ah, yes, it is me at fault. Not the one that gets down voted to oblivion, everybody else is just to stupid to understand you! That must be it!
- Comment on Americans when they are trying to talk back to a fascist: let's have a cosplay party! 4 days ago:
- Comment on Americans when they are trying to talk back to a fascist: let's have a cosplay party! 4 days ago:
Yes it is. People not participating need to be motivated to participate next time. They need to see how many people there are and that his is not a revolution (yet) but peaceful demonstrations
- Comment on Americans when they are trying to talk back to a fascist: let's have a cosplay party! 4 days ago:
Dude, Cosplay? This picture is gold. The police arresting the statue of LIBERTY?
As a german antifaschist, there is nothing wrong with wearing costumes to a demonstration. Our German police surely does not think so (Vermmummungsverbot, isn’t thid a nice German word?).
The goal of demonstrations is raising awareness and showing unity and strength. That requires powerful images for the public.
And maybe, if you are not a German, look up Rosenmontag and what happens here.
- Comment on How much brainrot can you handle 2 weeks ago:
For a second I thought Deichkind dropped a new Video
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
I am from Rheinland Pfalz. And our targets are high yes. Rural area.
But maybe, just maybe, have a look what our emergency doctor wait times and the realwait times are. Just maybe
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
Also correct. The target. And how many times this target is reached?
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
There is just one small flaw: this study only had a look at people that made it alive to the hospital.
Also, as the study said in noumorus places, whilefor Germany, full statistics where available, the USA data is more hit and miss, and therefore not as granular as German data.
While it is true that Germany has one of the worst life expectancies in western Europe, this is attributed more to our style of live then our health care system.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
Source?
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 months ago:
Solid 5 here. And I love to read. I love the smell of books, I love the feeling in my hands and I love the stories of course. I don’t have an image of an character in my head, I don’t have an image if the landscape, but I still enjoy it.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
As far as I remember, and I may be wrong, you could always the refund, but with a very short time frame.
And: no company has a perfect slate. How do you live? In a self build wood house in the outback?
If I would want a handheld, the only company that offers one for a fair price and with the right to repair, is fucking Valve. You can ignore this fact, but that does not make my statement false.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
Am I? Proof? Srsly, it you have some hard fact’s (beside a single ruling some years ago because of geo blocked keys), let me know.
I bought my games on Humble, and GOG for a very long time. Since humble offers specific packages now only through a fucking Windows only Launcher and GOG likewise, I am FORCED to use steam…
But I prefer DRM free content.
That does not change the fact that I think valve is the most consumer friendly company on the market currently.
But this does not make me a fanboy or someone who must have steam the the good guy
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
That was Charlie. He was a good boy. Died a year ago :( still muss him
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
Ok, so answering after reading the first line and the again you are to young you have no ideas.
Even if I was that young, that is just a stupid line of argument.
But, considering the fact that I am in IT for over 20 years now, it is just hilarious.
Just for reference, the first picture with me and a PC on it. Maybe you can calculate my age from this…
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
Downloading capacities where a major issue. Distribution required still discs. Doom was published 1995, not 2005.
Dwarf Fortress and cave story where “small games” considering the total binary size. But, games started to take up multiple hundred megabytes, leading to massiv traffic costs back in the day. I was working my first it job at this time. At a hosting company. Having 100GB of downloads a month was rare, and the price for it was massive.
Dude, I wish I would be under 40 again, but I am not.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
Since you’re clearly too young. I’ll give you a history lesson.
I am clearly not to young, let me chime in.
20 years ago, publishers had the full Control. Indie publishing was not possible.
The big studios controlled what you can play, and on wahr price. They took a big big share of the profits.
Now, with platform like Steam, self publishing is a thing, and more.
Yes, of course they tried to get some traction on steam. Epic games, Sony PlayStation, Xbox, all do exclusivity deals!
Yes, valve takes 30% of every transaction on Steam. Publishers take up to 60% … And so you play games published by auch publishers? Yes? And you don’t feel bad about yourself?
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.
Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.
I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.
If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.
If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.
Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.
If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.
But this? What is this? Why?
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 4 months ago:
You know, Valves decision years ago investing into the Linux eco system and literally pumping millions of dollars into open source development, contributing, hiring the sole maintainers of stuff like dxvk and more.
This brought Linux and especially the Linux desktop a lot further than without it.
We all gained through it.
And those new products are, like your Fairphone, designed with repairability and consumer rights in mind.
You talk like Fairphone does earn nothing in their phone’s and their are not in it for the money. Well, bad news. They made 54.400.000€ euro net profit last year.
So, go and stick your pseudo elitist behavior up your ass
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 4 months ago:
I’ll add on that with some more info:
Milt does not really like sugar. Not as a medium to grow in. So, anything high sugar you can, in fact just scoop it out. But, be aware, the mycelium of molt is toxic. So, anything where molt can grow through, like bread or a European Salsa (we don’t have that much sugar in them) throw it out . And if it grows back: THROW IT OUT.
- Comment on The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification | Brave 4 months ago:
It was always NFC. But using your mobile as a reader is about 6 years old now. Und only because the whole client app is open source and somebody contributed it
