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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s being made for art, then who cares if it’s being returned or not. It’s being enjoyed. If you want to capitalize on your art then you need to take the trade off of it getting returned if your artistic vision is shorter than the return window

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to imagine this was this risk the developer should have considered when making a game shorter than the return window.

  The platform shouldn’t have to intervene because the developer didn’t properly evaluate risk when releasing the game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨foil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s just on crack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slower path? They are waiting to reboot their original fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this is about the exact opposite of what I wanted to hear after Sony’s announcement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When a game sucked ass then you had a physical product you could sell or trade to offload it. Instead of the whole game getting the servers shut off and delisted within a year if it’s bad today. Even the bad games were better back then because of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it inconceivable that I may want to play a game a second time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly you are likely right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy a used PS2 right now that has that for way less? Even if you demand an hdmi mod, it’s way less than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A prerequisite to playing games is having media to play them from, there are plenty of digital downloads that have been lost for good because of delisting. If a game can be taken away, it’s not my game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I guess I’ll be switching to Xbox for Next Gen then. As long as they keep optical media, that is.

  I’ll just opt out of gaming altogether if it has to come with it. Say what you will about Nintendo but at least they are smart enough to keep their games on removable media (for the games worth playing at least)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be misinterpreting you a bit still, but if I reframe diseducation as propaganda, then I completely agree with your point. And it also presents a challenge we will face in perpetuity in the future. The technological progress of the internet has had an enormous positive impact on humanity but also comes with an enormous human cost as the worst of us weaponize it to gain money and power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that GTA V wasn’t as good as San Andreas but I still quite enjoyed it. I liked Franklin and his story quite a bit. Michael and Trevor would have been fine as side characters, as playable characters I don’t really care too much about them beyond the Brad, Trevor, Michael, FBI agent triangle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would if the game came on the disc. I’m not buying a license to play the game at Sony and Take-Twos leisure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they let their members know this before they implemented private matches and server browsers in their games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have two-factor authentication.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But the YouTuber that sold me my VPN said it kept my online data safe (whatever that means)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have two-factor authentication.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you blame the locksmith if you lose your keys?

  I could take the locks off the door to my house but then I can’t be mad when I get robbed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you mostly but don’t agree in calling people “diseducated”, I think it removes too much personal agency. Undermining education and replacing it with religious devotion is most definitely a goal of fascist wealthy class but we aren’t there yet.

  Public education doesn’t make someone mentally incompetent, so no need to infantilize them. This “hate, fear, and illiteracy” are all choices they’ve made to identify with.

  No one is born MAGA, they choose it for themselves. Their lack of self-discipline and unable to delay gratification and propensity to choose the path of least resistance may be preyed upon by the system but they always have a choice.

  Its very similar to the food system in this country, it’s all engineered to feel good and make you addicted and overconsume. You still have the choice to eat less and exercise more but it’s hard. Some people are also predisposed to falling into it, so I do think you make a good point even if I don’t fully agree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe OP is a CEO and doesn’t consider wage slaves people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a peaceful life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New PC? What kind of person can afford one of those? Elon Musk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.

  Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots

  I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Afterplay and the Push Toward a Steam for Retro Games: An Interview⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a long time user of Afterplay, it’s subscription is totally optional and has actually gone down over the years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gaming better as a kid or an adult?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The pros of gaming as an adult is that you now have the money to go buy all the games you wanted to play as a kid. The cons are that you no longer have the time.

  I have to say that the lack of responsibility and abundance of time makes gaming as a kid better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the sentiment, discs that just get the ball rolling on the install and don’t actually give you the game in a playable state offline feel just as pointless as a code in a box if you keep games and don’t trade them in for cash/credit.

  I really wish that games still read off the discs themselves instead of installed to storage. I hate having to manage console storage when you can only play like 5 games at a time before having to delete and reinstall something and you wasted your whole night on that instead of playing a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting it this way, project management is a skill that requires expertise. Lots of Laborers have the expertise to be the subcontractor, not all of them succeed at being the contractor/foreman.

  The majority of disfunction in workplaces seems to be that the middle managers don’t have the skills to be there either or they’d have probably been promoted up the ladder even further already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This 100%. It’s near unusable for those of us that have it installed on spinning disks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always with the hidden fees.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if there has been a more fitting post to this community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am casually optimistic but this really gives me a lot of the legend of Spyro vibes of taking the existing characters from Spyro and trying to fit them into a new genre. Hopefully the trailer is just showing a new type of level and the focus is still on collectathon 3d platforming.

  Pretty nervous that gems, the charge or flame attacks, and sparks weren’t shown off in the trailer at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it