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- Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anythingwww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 14 hours ago to games@lemmy.world | 83 comments
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Of a narrative that promotes sharing pictures rather than plain text, shitpost over quality content and reposts instead of original content.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.
Public figures have even more reasons not to muster empathy for genocide supporters
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
This sub is propaganda
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 weeks ago:
Sure, you buy and drive the car, but you didn’t:
If you vote for political parties that support these policies it’s on you too, with your vote you handle them your responsibility
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 weeks ago:
If you vote for parties that support these corporations it’s on you too.
- Comment on Flock cameras just one year apart 2 weeks ago:
They are ramping up mass surveillance because the number of people pissed with the government is increasing exponentially
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 2 weeks ago:
Why can’t you just write the thing yourself instead of making a repost from X?
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 4 weeks ago:
You can’t REALLY make an review of a work of art,
They are not reviewing work of art though, they are reviewing products.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 weeks ago:
meta repost downvote this shit
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
Seem like everyone got successfully distracted over the epstein files and the ongoing genocide and wars
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Their goal is to maximize profits, if they get more money by selling costly units they will stick to these
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
but there’s also likely no way they could make it cheaper.
Valve ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, i’m sure there’s a lot of room to cut profits there and make their products cheaper
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Would be nice if it pushed back 20 years before steam become so popular
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The ceo of valve has more money than sam altman, valve is a for profit company, what makes you think they want to sell you something for cheap?
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 1 month ago:
What makes you think he’s being blackmailed? War is a business, they don’t care about people, they are fine with what israel is doing and supporting it, being able to blame someone for it is a bonus point.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 month ago:
Nothing is more patriotic than wanting your country to do better.
Is being patriotic and wanting your first world country to do better something heroic?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 month ago:
I would argue that praising soldiers for their bravery and calling them heroes is a bootlicker thing to do.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 month ago:
He did good and did something heroic but the title of hero should be reserved to actual heroes that never chose once to side with scum. Before turning out as good this guy was serving in the US army
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 months ago:
You are promoting their ecosystem and blocking visibility for better content
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 months ago:
You are not liberating anything you are promoting their shit
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 months ago:
Stop upvoting x and meta reposts you idiots
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 2 months ago:
We also have an information problem. As long as we debate fundamental problems on centralized platforms through memes nothing ever will be resolved. Stop upvoting this shit please and share better content.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
running game without a bunch of garbage
Steam is part of the garbage, you don’t really need a third party launcher to run a software.
Microsoft just got into the video game selling business
In the past years microsoft made big and aggressive acquisitions in the videogames industry like bethesda and blizzard. The new xbox portable which is a direct competitor to the steam deck doesn’t have cd anymore, the only way to get games is through microsoft store.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Valve is winning because the average gamer doesn’t care much about owning his videogames.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
it doesn’t just do nothing,
Valve is a for profit company, one of their main goals is to make money and they work daily to do that. There are people at Valve who work 8h a day on how to boost profits.
People love to shit on valve working on lootboxes, but I was there to see how it developed. It was there as part of a way of getting money back to the people making stuff, which is why a shitload of the TF2 hats came from the community and steam workshop. The system came from a left wing greek economist, before , you know, he BECAME Minister of Finance for greece (for half a year)
I think you are confusing lootboxes with the items market which was there mainly to compensate the free to play model. If you were there i hope you remember too no DRMs and no third party software launchers to run games.
This is why they have steam OS
They have steam OS because microsoft become one of their competitors
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Remember that you are on Lemmy: a decentralized and open source platform owned by the community.
Steam is a proprietary, closed source, for profit third party software launcher owned by a billionaire.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 5 months ago:
Parties who label themself as “left” and “right” always serve the rich class.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 5 months ago:
You can make a solar panel out of recycled materials or without destroying the planet
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 months ago:
“No new wars” was a trump slogan, leftists aren’t the only ones against the genocide, pretty much everyone who doesn’t have ties with israel was pissed with US involvement.