Goodeye8

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Science isn't political!"⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering wacky theories have a tendency to contradict each other it would be far more impressive if his wacky theories weren’t contradictory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry not sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So like cure a sinus infection or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schrodinger's Precious⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you also dead because you’re guaranteed to die eventually? It’s not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you’re observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can’t be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the game time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s his job to navigate the company through this shit economy and he failed at his job. But his failure is put on the 1000 people who got laid off while he gets to continue sitting in his little castle acting like there was nothing he could do. If you want to ride his dick go ahead, I’ve got no sympathy for a failure who didn’t learn the first time around (because it’s not even 3 years from the last layoffs) and suffers no consequences for his failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even get why he’s being called stupid but let’s address what you said first. Would you rather get a 6 months severance and a very little opportunities to get rehired is almost impossible or keep your current job? Unless you’re stupid you’d rather keep your job. The 6 months severance with health care doesn’t matter when you’re being thrown overboard.

  And he’s being called stupid because he’s throwing people overboard to keep his ship going and he’s trying to pass it off as “they’ll survive” like he’s done nothing wrong. He’d genuinely would look smarter if he just shut the fuck up and take the layoff criticisms on the chin. But you know, much like Randy Pitchford, Sweeney loves to put his foot in his mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s more of an issue with OLED being really expensive. From what I’ve checked going from 16:9 IPS to 21:9 IPS should be roughly the same the price increase (percentage-wise) as going from 16:9 OLED to 21:9 OLED. Besides the bigger screen simply costing more going from 16:9 to 21:9 doesn’t really increase the cost of the monitor. It’s just the OLED itself that makes it cost so much, at least in theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having used a 34 inch 21:9 monitor for over 3 years now I can’t go back to 16:9 anymore. 16:9 just feels so small. With 21:9 the extra space on the sides feel just big enough to feel so much more immersive. With my monitor it’s like the screen cuts off just where my peripheral starts so my whole focus is on the screen. I can get so much more immersed in it because all I see is the game. And just like with the images, my god how much better games look when you give it more horizontal space for framing.

  It’s clear to see from the Fragile image where 16:9 stops and 21:9 continues. The left edge of 16:9 would start just left from her name and the right edge of 16:9 would be either right past her left shoulder or just cutting off the edge of her shoulder. Everything left from her name and right from her shoulder is what you don’t see in 16:9. Which isn’t that impressive on Fragiles image because there’s nothing interesting in the background. But if you look at Sam feeding the baby you see how much 21:9 adds. In 16:9 you probably see the baby on the left, Sam on the right and the only part of the room you see is the boring part between the two. Now add in the extra space from 21:9 and the room becomes more alive. You see the books behind the baby, the plant and cupboards? on the right, the whole bowl with the apple on the bottom right (the apple you probably can’t even see in 16:9) and for me it stops being just Sam and baby and becomes Sam and baby in this room. They don’t exist in some nondescript space, they exist in an actual room.

  Seriously, if you want to enhance your gaming experience I completely recommend getting an ultrawide monitor. It is a game changer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Excluding the ethics of using AI models that does sound like a cool side project to tinker with. But I meant kinda the opposite of what you imagined. I meant you create a sketch or a rough draft of what you’re imagining and then spend the rest of the time prompting AI to make it into the final image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to dispute his bullshit but then I found this gem:

  And it would generate in the style of that, all consistent with the artistry, you know, the style, the intent of the artist. And so all of that is done for the artist, so that they can create something that is more beautiful, but still in the style that they want.

  Dude is literally saying AI will do a better job at creating art than the artist. Talk about being tone-deaf. The future of artistry isn’t a fucking etch a sketch and prompt engineering you fucking donkey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraforming mars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone should sell him the idea that to terraform Mars you need the kind of tech that would also terraform Earth. Let him spend his money to solve climate change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if you really think it’s fucking cool to listen to these words over these words I don’t think there’s anything further to discuss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor headphones takes something away, but (unless they’re so cheap they pick up static) it won’t add anything to the song. What Nvidia is selling, in terms of audio, is having an AI filter between the song and your headphones that enhances the sound however it sees fit. It might take something away but more often than not it’s just going to add something to it. You want to listen to Bad Bunny but the AI is going to generate English over Spanish because people are more likely to understand what he’s singing about. If you had headphones like that you’d throw them in the trash because they are trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they’d have to focus on more efficient chips if they want people to use this feature because no sane person is going to shell out two 5090s to run the slop generator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying there can’t be any controversies, I’m saying good games don’t get huge online outrage (unless there’s something actually wrong with the game). With that in mind you can take the GOTY nominations list and most of those games have had either no backlash or very minor backlashes or there’s been a real issue with the game (like the balancing in Silksong).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand Kaplan is right, people should STFU instead of giving their opinion on something they don’t really care about in the first place. But on the other hand the masses don’t complain about good games so there’s also something the devs can do. I get that it comes across as “just make good games, duh” but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to see that another “competitive live service FPS” or “Ubisoft style open world adventure” or “extraction shooter” is going to be met with apathy. Maybe start by first figuring out what people might actually want to play instead of chasing boring trends. If you find your target audience they will cut the noise of the morons who don’t care in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if there are artists who will use AI to generate assets there’s still some human element of picking the asset the artist is happy with. There’s a miniscule amount of human creativity even in that case and this is removing what little there was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t really matter, it’s something that shouldn’t exist in the first place. What’s the point of having artists put tons of effort into artistic vision when an AI company just comes and slops their shit over that vision?

  Automation should replace menial jobs so we’d have more time for creative endeavors not replace creative endeavors so we’d have time for what exactly? Being broke? Doing menial jobs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution of “Just collect blood samples from all users” is the law. Gambling laws require that the company providing a gambling service verify the age of the user to prevent underage gambling. If Valve is providing a gambling service then by law they should have age verification. So far, legally, what Valve has been doing is not gambling and part of this lawsuit is proving that what Valve is doing is gambling, and if it is gambling then Valve is doing an inadequate job at verifying the ages of the users and thus is breaking the law.

  I’d like the NYAG to equalize pressure on sports betting sites.

  As far as I know online sports betting sites are already required to verify the age and identity of the user. Outside of changing the laws I don’t see what pressure you’re expecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about targeting the ones you can legally target. I’m not going to get into it again but Valve does their lootboxes differently to almost every other big developer/publisher and that way of doing things has gotten them in trouble. Should all companies that in practice are gambling get into legal trouble? Yes. Should Valve get a pass because others get away scot-free? No. If 6 people rape someone but legally there’s evidence to convict one of them you don’t give that one person a free pass because the other 5 can’t be convicted.

  In this case there’s one company, Valve, where you have some legal basis to get them in the court and there’s no legal basis for other companies even though they’re largely doing the same thing. You may not like it and might consider it unfair but that’s just how the legal system works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically I gave up on the community for the complete opposite reason, you can’t criticize the game because criticism is always met with “you’re an enemy of super earth”. I get it, Super earth is a fascist civilization and Helldivers are the extension of that fascism and a lot of it is on the nose and it’s okay to joke about dissenters, sometimes. You don’t need to scream “enemies of democracy” every single time someone criticizes the game. The game is fun but it’s not perfect. There are real problems with the game, one of which has lead to this complete embarrassment of the community.

  In short, the Helldivers 2 community is toxic in every aspect and anyone interested in Helldivers is better off ignoring the subreddit, the steam community and probably also the official discord. Instead join !helldivers2@lemmy.ca where this drama isn’t even mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paging SpaceCowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And why exactly does Hamas exist in the first place? Surely not because Isreal has been killing Palestinians before Isreal was even an official state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NextFest Thoughts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t have a lot of time for the next fest but I did give three games a try that were on my radar before the next fest.

  The first was Allumeria. It was recently in the news because it got DMCA’d for looking like Minecraft. Having played it I would say that while the artstyle is somewhat Minecraft inspired the game felt more like 3D Terraria than Minecraft. But I still consider it to be too raw to really get into it. The forest boss was kind of just running around to avoid getting hit by projectile spam while spamming projectiles back at the boss. I don’t know if I was supposed to have better gear for the boss but it was like 10 minutes of just running around taking potshots at the boss because the boss was too tanky. I followed up the boss fight with the forest dungeon and after literally spending an hour inside the dungeon I gave up because I had no idea where I was supposed to go what I was supposed to do. That said, I’ll still keep it on my radar because the concept was appealing.

  The second game I played was Let’s build a dungeon. This was probably the best game I played and the whole concept of the game is so novel I’d definitely recommend keeping an eye on it. Basically the core gameplay of let’s build a dungeon is to build an MMO world. You throw in a spawn point, build roads, scenery, and then add quests and dungeons (which you also build manually) and then get NPC players come in to play your MMO world. Except that is not all that the game is. The game is also a game dev studio management game where you deal with hiring talent, managing the popularity of your MMO, budgeting etc. Except that’s not all that the game is. You also get to play the very MMO world you create. You can make a character and play through all the quests and dungeons you’ve made and if I remember correctly you can also play the MMO worlds other players have created. I would also recommend their previous game, let’s build a zoo, which is a game where you build a zoo (with a twist that I’m not going to spoil).

  The last game I tried was Cargo hunters. It’s essentially a single-player extraction shooter where you play as humanoid robot. The novel idea in cargo shooters is that any other bot you destroy you can saw into pieces and then you can take those pieces back into your base and rebuilt your own bot using the pieces from the other bots. And that’s pretty much all I can say about the game because the demo was so barebones I couldn’t really tell anything more about the game beyond that it worked and didn’t play like ass. In fact I’d say the demo was an excellent example how not to do a demo. The game is supposed to have crafting, but most of the crafting stations are not available in the demo. It’s supposed to have trading, but trading station is not available in the demo. You can find gun parts to modify your guns, except the modification station is not available in the demo so you can’t do that. There’s a leveling system in the game but beyond being a requirement for some crafting stations I didn’t see any reason for there to be a leveling system. The demo felt like a mash of all sorts of things that an extraction shooter should have, except more than half of those things weren’t even in the game yet. So the game boils down to running the same level over and over again killing the same bots over and over again while you become weaker and weaker because you can’t really replace the gear your started the game with. I’m keeping it wishlisted because their trailer showed far more content than what the demo had so maybe there’s a quick jump into something with more substance when the early access launch happens, but overall this was the demo I was the most disappointed by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three archetypes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to give Musk some benefit of doubt the only visionary thing he did was SpaceX. Pretty much every other venture he’s invested in has been either someone else’s vision or something very stupid (like what the Boring Company is doing). I don’t think he deserves to be called a visionary when his contribution isn’t the vision but a fat wallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The latest earnings call implies the opposite. They don’t have a large supply of PS5 laying around because they’re also struggling to buy memory and hardware unit sales have declined so they’re focusing on monetizing the existing user base instead of selling more units.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that this is not the first time that Valve has been singled out for things widely done across the industry and they’ve also been falsely accused of doing things that the rest of the industry is doing.

  I don’t see how that’s relevant. If someone is innocent the 99 times they’ve been accused of a crime we shouldn’t give them a pass on the 100th accusation.

  If they wanted to go after Valve specifically for gambling they should not have linked it to kids. It’s invoking “think of the children” BS while diluting what they claim is the core argument.

  But it is an argument to be made when a) kids are playing a game with gambling (which they are), b) there’s clear evidence that kids experiencing gambling has a negative impact on their life (which the lawsuit also clearly cites) and c) children gambling is illegal.

  Gambling is also harmful for adults. They are M rated games. If a child is playing the game that is a parental issue, not a state issue. It’s not illegal for kids to play M rated games, nor do I really think it should be as that is something parents should decide. The issue is that a lot, if not most, parents have no idea what their kids are doing online.

  Gambling is also harmful for adults, but that has been legalized. Children playing an M rated game is a parental issue but that’s not the argument that’s being made. But it turns into a legal issue when the game children are playing is gambling.

  The argument that “mostly kids play these games” is unsubstantiated at best. Might have been true in the 90s and early 2000s, but there are people in their 50’s that have played games for the majority of their lives.

  I didn’t see them making that argument. I saw them make an argument that teenagers are a core audience for CS.

  Teenage boys are a core audience of first-person shooter games like Counter-Strike. It is also well known that many of the most famous esports players of CS 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 began playing well before they turned 13. Over half of the 22 players on the top five Counter-Strike esports academy teams are 18 years old or younger, and the youngest member is just 14 years old.

  That seems to be pretty well argumented especially when you know the competitive scene of CS where those same academy teams have slotted straight into T1 CS. The fact that there are so many talented players in the competitive scene who either are or were minors a few years ago means that there is a big enough teenage audience to have such talent rise to the top.

  Also, PC gaming tends to skew older. They might have more of an argument if they were talking about Call of Duty on a console, but an M rated game is still not targeted to that age group.

  You don’t see the irony of defending Valve with their games being M rated and then saying it would be different if it was Call of Duty, which is also an M rated game? By your own logic you should be just as opposed to them talking about Call of Duty as they are talking about Counter Strike.

  Again, if they want to go after Vavle for gambling, then do that. But they are jumping around with what exactly the accusation is which makes it seem like they are grasping at straws at best or trying to hide the real reason at worst.

  They are and they’re making arguments where Valve would be breaking the law if Valve is gambling. That includes letting children gamble.

  That we have all the age verification crap happening at the same time is too much of a coincidence to ignore. Like, How about going after anyone implicated from the files if you really want to protect children? They can come back to this after they develop a coherent argument and include any other gaming companies doing the same thing.

  They can’t legally force Valve to implement age verification unless Valve decides to double down on the gambling. Valve could just as easily prevent age verification by removing gambling from their platform. I don’t think Valve should get a free pass on gambling just because there’s a risk of someone malicious trying to push age verification through this door. Valve opened that door when they decided to implement gambling.

  They have a coherent argument, it’s just an argument you like and they can’t include other gaming companies in this lawsuit because other gaming companies are not doing it the exact same way Valve is doing it. What you’re saying is that we should give Valve a pass on allegedly breaking the law because we can’t accuse all companies who may or may not be breaking the law. If there’s a gangrape and only 1 of the 5 rapists could be proven guilty should they get a free pass because we can’t prove all 5 did the raping? Because that’s the argument you’re making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which means what exactly….it was there. You asked. I provided.

  Which was something that was. Car used to run on gasoline mixed with lead, do you think if someone asked what are the problems with ICE engines they care about an issue that has been fixed for over a decade? Nobody cares about that because it’s fixed and the same way nobody cares that D3 had an auction have 12 years ago. It’s not relevant today so your example is worthless. The least you could do is own up your mistake but it’s pretty clear admitting fault is beyond your capacity.

  Uhh ok? It kinda does…

  Uhh ok? It kinda doesn’t…

  Because this is a platform that allows people to post their comments. You whining about how you care that whales exist, doesn’t magically make your opinion more important than mine. Plenty of games out there aren’t pay 2 win…so vote with your wallet and don’t play them. If you are addicted get help. Don’t punish those who enjoy a vice. It’s how we get shit legislation that doesn’t do anything but create blackmarkets.

  You’re free to make a comment, but don’t get pissy when you get called out for being an ass. Because you are. That very line of thought means you’re okay with legalizing hard drugs. After all if you’re addicted to meth that’s your fault. We shouldn’t be punishing the people who somehow luck out of not getting addicted to meth. You don’t care about this issue so stfu, your opinion is irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of this is exclusive to Valve. Yeah, people can technically buy hardware and sell it, but they can also gift games or whatever and people were already using third party websites to sell their items for cash.

  Lootboxes are not specific to Valve, but the way Valve has implemented lootboxes is very distinct. And I know that third party sites have been selling the skins for cash for years at this point, but that has been happening outside Valve’s ecosystem. IMO Valve should’ve been held accountable for that years ago but so far they’ve been able to skirt the law.

  And MMOs with random drops have historically always had an RMT market that is against the TOS where people sell in game currency or items for real currency.

  Which is part of why I said the way Valve does things is unique to Valve, because Valve does (for the most part) offer the infrastucture for all the trading except for turning Steam credit back into real money. IMO RMT shouldn’t exist either but that is not something you legally push onto developer because like you said, it is against the TOS so players are doing something the developer has already said they shouldn’t be doing.

  I’m not saying that valve should be let off the hook when it comes to loot boxes, but this lawsuit kind of stinks because it is all over the place and again, valve isn’t the worst example of what they describe.

  Valve isn’t the worst example but they are one of the few companies where there’s now some legal ground to go after the gambling, and when it comes to gambling Valve is a pretty big player. Ideally we should go after all of these companies but what is morally right and legally right doesn’t really match when it comes to gambling.

  The fact that it’s framed as “protecting children” and claims that valve is intentionally targeting children despite the games in question being rated M and old enough that I seriously doubt there are that many minors playing is putting a ton of red flags up for me. They also add the 90s era “violent video game” rhetoric that was always nonsense.

  I could see where you’re coming from but I personally didn’t see the lawsuit this way. Children are a point to bring up because we shouldn’t be normalizing gambling for children, but overall I see the suit as taking an issue with the gambling aspect of the lootboxes. We don’t know the exact number of minors playing but there’s enough for them to get into the competitive scene of CS, there are players who entered T1 of CS while still being minors.

  Not sure from where you’re taking the violent video game rhetoric as I didn’t notice that in the actual lawsuit.

  The conspiracy part of me thinks this is going to eventually lead to more age verification BS and they are targeting valve because it is the only company that is complying in a way that still protects user privacy.

  I get the risk of pushing more age verification BS but I think that’s unavoidable when companies decide to get into gambling. Age verification for gambling has been around before the world wide web was even a thing. I see this more as playing hardball by stating that if Valve wants to partake in gambling then gambling laws should apply to Valve. They can’t legally force Valve to implement age verification unless Valve decides to double down on the gambling. Valve could just as easily prevent age verification by removing gambling from their platform. I don’t think Valve should get a free pass on gambling just because there’s a risk of someone malicious trying to push age verification through this door. Valve opened that door when they decided to implement gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diablo 3 had a RMAH (real money auction house). I didn’t play the game long so it was still up when I stopped playing it. Since fuck blizzard.

  Which got removed roughly when the expansion launched due to there being huge backlash on this bullshit.

  WT requires you to buy keys to open the boxes, and you can sell the boxes you find on their store.

  For premium boxes. You still get free boxes that you can open, but fair enough. That said, being able to sell premium boxes is not the same thing as being able to sell the things you got from the premium box and it changes nothing about the rest of what I said in the previous comment.

  Eve has a full blown cash economy.

  Not even going to bother with this one because who know what the fuck you mean here. Don’t bother explaining, I don’t care.

  I honestly don’t care about any of this. I think if a fool wants to waste their money on digital skins for a game. Let them.

  So why comment in the first place? Because now I have to waste my time correcting your vague bullshit and I’m pretty pissed off about it because this is something I care about and you’re here just talking shit about things you don’t understand and don’t care to understand. Good for you for not knowing how damaging addiction can be for addicts and the people around them, next time do everyone a favor and stfu when you don’t give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diablo 3 has no real trading. You have only limited time trading of things you find while playing with other people. Maybe you meant Diablo Immortal but I don’t know enough about that to talk on that subject.

  As for War Thunder and EVE. Yes, they have lootboxes and yes there’s a perceived monetary value to the boxes and things in the box, but they’re not the same as Steam because those games do the common thing (which IMO should also be banned) where you stick a premium currency between real money and the thing you want to purchase and obfuscate the actual value of things. I don’t agree with what they’re doing but they are making sure value of items is not directly translatable to real money. It’s one of the tactics companies hide behind (while also manipulating players to spend more). Steam doesn’t even do that. Steam literally puts real money value on the market. You want to buy a Factory new Marble Fade talon knife you know the starting price is exactly 732,98€.

  I’m pretty sure in EVE and War Thunder you also get to open some of those lootboxes for free which is another difference from Valve games, where you literally have to pay real money to open the box. I imagine that also plays a role in how companies defend their practices, by saying it’s not gambling because you don’t have to pay to open lootboxes, you just pay to get EXTRA lootboxes to open.

  And to make it clear, I’m not defending the gatcha industy. IMO that should be struck down the same way Valve’s gambling machine should be struck down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give some examples.