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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Cities: Skylines 2 Economy 2.0 Patch Notes Revealed as Huge Update Goes Live⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just watching CityPlannerPlays stream where he was trying the new patch out, and oh boy has the game changed totally. It actually looked like a fun challenge instead of the money printing simulator that it was before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least the buggy software will eventually generate more jobs because they need more hands fixing everything while AI can’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care how many yachts Gaben owns, he’s free to do whatever he wishes as long as he provides me a great service that I’m willing to use money towards.

  And Microsoft did try really hard back in the day to make Linux go away. Luckily OSS community was already large enough that they were able to fight the legal cases and the whole thing didn’t dry up. Nowadays Microsoft endorses Linux because they decided they can squeeze value out of other people’s free work for themselves (and because pretty much the entire server industry runs on Linux anyways).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Valve has a game store called Steam, but what’s the actual position they have? There are competing game stores - both digital and physical - and Valve isn’t trying to run their competition out of business with shady business tactics? Just by being good at something and therefore running a successful business shouldn’t be illegal or hated by itself - it’s the way the business is being conducted that actually matters. Gaben is free to have yacht or two as long as his company is being run with a healthy mindset, their employees are being paid a fair salary (which I guess is another discussion in it’s own who decides that) and they are not screwing their competition nor their customers up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I get what you’re saying, but Valve is actually one of the few large tech companies that are providing an actually good service (Steam). People should be allowed to make money by providing value to their customers because that’s the motivation of building such services and products in the first place.

  The hatred should go towards the companies abusing their position and violating customers and then just cashing excessive amounts of money for a crap product/service that has no real competition. If Valve had started making their competitors lives harder, by generating lots of nonsense lawsuits for example, they should absolutely be blasted down to hell by everybody. As long as they are just earning lots of bucks by providing a service people want to use without restricting using other services and playing with healthy rules otherwise as well, it’s all fine and everyone working on the great service SHOULD earn more than average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s replace “good guy” with “one of the few actually good services in gaming”, would you still disagree?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is a service that costs money to keep running - lot’s of money actually in their scale. When you sell a Steam key outside of Steam, they don’t get their cut which goes toward running costs and whatnot. It doesn’t of course matter if it’s just some random few keys but if almost all devs started to do that, it could cause some serious funding problems to Valve. That could then lead to reduced service levels of Steam and that would hurt their customers - the players - the most.

  So while it’s not a big problem currently, it could be if it wasn’t prevented properly in contractual level. People who think that is an unfair clause don’t probably understand what it actually takes to run a service like Steam or they are straight competitors trying to run them out of business in any way imaginable.