Morgikan

@Morgikan@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That's not quite the same thing.

  Yes, someone can fork your project, but you maintain control over your own repository. Nobody gets to say "I need this, so you can't remove it or previous commits related to it from your repo". You can totally filter and scrub your own repos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a big fan of this.
  This sounds like they want to integrate themselves deeper into the modding setup with the likely end-goal of being a requirement to that setup. The problem there is they have a history of de-platforming mods (regardless how you feel about those mods personally) and declaring themselves the owner of mods (by refusing the removal of mods they wanted in Collections).

  Allowing them more control over what mods users can access seems like a step backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry PlayStation Fans Propose PS5 Blackout in Protest of Sony's Disc Decision⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is akin to the "boycotts" people have done against gas stations for high fuel costs. It doesn't work. It's always like "on a Tuesday, don't buy gas"... but you weren't going to until Friday anyway. And then you buy it on Friday, the books balance exactly the same, and there is zero actual impact.

  You want to impact Sony? Stop buying games on PS5. Not for a week. For this entire console generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I view Steam Machines is just as a delivery system for SteamOS. I don't know if Valve even thinks Steam Machines will themselves be successful. I'm thinking they are betting on enough users adopting Steam Machines that they will get a foothold with their OS and start pushing Microsoft out.

  And that kinda makes sense as Microsoft is going the "AI first" route and focusing on productivity. That leaves an opening (if albeit a small one currently) for companies like Valve to pull users into their "Gamers first" SteamOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having the game on the horizon is actually a very good position for the employees for two reasons:

  1. Pre-orders. Rockstar already secured $3 billion, so they don't have the argument that compensation is unfair (why they were wanting to unionize to begin with along with work hours).

  2. (The big one) Pre-Launch Strike. There still is a LOT of damage that could be done to GTA6 especially given the pre-orders. If they strike before November, GTA6 would go without day 1 patches. Whatever state it is in prior to strike is how it will stay during the highest review and revenue period for the game. It would mess with marketing and potentially even push off release by one month which hit their stock price hard.