Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?! I hate anything that requires verification and codes! 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: take card out from wallet Step 2: profit
Also, saving payment info on your phone and then refusing to use some bare minimum security measures, it’s like your asking to be stolen from.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 3 weeks ago:
Wisdom is knowing when to say “fuck it” to save yourself the pain.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 weeks ago:
Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of the customer base you built with initially cheap subscriptions / good service.
First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.
Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.
When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won’t sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can’t use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won’t leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn’t have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won’t leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. “What’s a few more bucks a month, what’s a little additional ad before my game loads, what’s a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers”. That’s the enshittification part.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 weeks ago:
This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time. That’s what economy is.
The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn’t diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can’t fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 4 weeks ago:
Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 4 weeks ago:
Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven’t seen from them, so let’s hope that’ll work out.
I’m hyped.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
Ok, but which? Can you sue them if Galaxy, a free tool that they provide for convenience and that isn’t required for the actual service, doesn’t work, or if it breaks a game? Name one thing.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use galaxy.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn’t work you can download games from the website.
Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 month ago:
I genuinely don’t get the “don’t pre order just buy the day it releases” thing.
Nobody ever said the second part.
Don’t pre order, wait for reviews a couple weeks after release, buy if reviews are good and no major bullshit is discovered.
What do you think you’re winning?
Avoiding the major bullshit.
Also, even if you did just buy day one: If developers have a lot of pre orders they know they’ll sell anyway they have less of an incentive to deliver the highest possible quality.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
So does Galaxy?
Let’s say I have not yet had to do a full reinstall of heroic and multiple associated games because something got unfixably borked during an update.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
Even fewer people game on Mac than on Linux (judging by the Steam survey). I bet it’s not that they can’t they just don’t care.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
Heroic works better than Galaxy does in Windows. They should just pay the Heroic devs for their work and make that their official launcher.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
Doesn’t look like wood to me.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
Why would the sword shatter but not the shield?
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 1 month ago:
Also, no 3rd person camera, so you’d only see your character in inventory screen.
That’s why you ride bikes, d’uh!
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.
It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.
Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be looked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 1 month ago:
Must be an oversight, maybe write them a kindly worded e-mail to let them know.
- Comment on My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet) 1 month ago:
Yeah, I always explore everything I can reach first, although if I encounter a boss that I can’t even scratch I won’t stick around for a 37 minute fight ;) so I have some things to return to.
I’m level 40 now and the story bosses are just not scary anymore. But so far I still enjoy being a bit overpowered at times so it’s fine.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
They said that about steam and look at us now.
It’s people flocking to it until it’s the only place to release games that is gonna force you.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
Ok. You’re often tired, but coffee gives you super strength, Popeye style.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 month ago:
No. Common sense has been replaced by the constant normalization of tracking and personalized ads.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 month ago:
What else would it be coming from on the exact same hardware?
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 month ago:
Wow. I already wasn’t going to buy any more Bethesda slop, but now I’m not going to buy it twice.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 months ago:
Assuming the attacker knows it’s a phrase: The english language alone has some 800.000 words. 800.000^6 = 2*10^35 combinations in a dictionary attack. That’s comparable to 18 random ASCII characters. We might also be using a different language, or a combination of languages.
A long string of random characters will give you more combinations per password length, but there are some passwords you just need to be able to memorize, and I’d say that’s more likely with the 6 words.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 months ago:
I think anything that uses any kind of item that doesn’t come packed with the bread belongs on the “lawful” side.
- Comment on The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no 2 months ago:
Those are ok-ish for your own stuff if you don’t care too much. If you want to sell a product you have to do better.
- Comment on Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments 2 months ago:
I hope this goes on like “made in Germany” (originally devised as a way to keep people from buying German products, quickly became a label of quality).
- Comment on Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development 2 months ago:
I’ve seen project managment in industrial fields, and now that you put it this way I can totally see it.
- Comment on Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development 2 months ago:
But then, why do they keep canceling them before release? They don’t know if they’d have been hits or failures.