atrielienz
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- Comment on 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 anything 13 hours ago:
Would a decentralized version of Steam do that?
Is that 30% the bulk of Valve’s profit?
What do Indie developers get in exchange for Valve’s 30% cut on Steam that they don’t get elsewhere that charges 30% or charges less of a percentage?
So could physical retailers, so how’s that working out?
I’m not going to say they can’t do that. It’s not a bad suggestion but it seems to be suggested continually in a vacuum without considering other factors.
- Comment on 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 anything 1 day ago:
Ok. So what percentage of the games launched on steam are shovelware vs quality indie games. And where is that line? And who makes that decision?
- Comment on 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 anything 1 day ago:
The main problem I see with this is that game devs are trying to use capitalism to make money. So what you’re saying is, it’s alright for game devs, but not for store fronts.
That doesn’t make sense to me.
- Comment on 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 anything 1 day ago:
I believe that this is as much about game quality, over saturation, and marketing/inertia as it is about Valve in general, but I’m trying to understand what they think (based on the contents of the article) can be done to fix this problem for game devs.
- Comment on 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 anything 1 day ago:
Hey op, I see a lot of your arguments in the comments.
I have a challenge.
Name 5 things Valve could implement to change this that would not be to the detriment of indie devs.
This is not a joke. You have opinions. I want to hear them.
I’m also curious (since I see you pushing a decentralized market place in the comments), how you think a decentralized marketplace would function and what would be better about it.
- Comment on 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 anything 1 day ago:
Then literally no indie games would ever get popular.
- Comment on Flock said they were only using the cameras for license plates. Cat is out of the bag now. 6 days ago:
Those birds were with me at the vet the whole time.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Wait til they see the celebration in the streets when Trump kicks the bucket. If they think Kirk’s (well deserved) death reaction was heartless, I have some news for them.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
I’m going to crab rave for at least a month. Crab rave every hour on the hour. I’m going to automate it. My liver can’t handle the bourbon anymore so this is all I have.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Had me until you said “muster a but of empathy”. Trump would never.
- Comment on Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts 1 week ago:
I have specifically split tunneled my VPN so that the app (voyager) I use for Lemmy is actually not included with my VPN traffic. I do not understand why even with the VPN turned off completely and the account signed out and the device restarted I can’t log in. Something really does need to be done here.
This barrier to entry for any legitimate user using a VPN is ridiculously high if even with the VPN turned off completely it still causes issues.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 2 weeks ago:
My supernatural farming sim has done nothing wrong it’s while life!
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
I would argue that it’s not just advertising. It’s also a lot to do with how many people grew up in really terribly design homes with terrible hoarding situations.
A lot of millennials seem to course correct to the other extreme. Add to that the rental market where neutral is better because it can be customized without clashing with what renters already own.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
They Millenial’d it.
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
4GB ram is enough for a glorified Lemmy/PornHub device. I use a Redmi 4x with 4GB and a snapdragon 435. It’s fast enough for modern mobile games (well barely).
Not anymore. Phones running Android 15 can get a full version of android rather than the Go variant but Android 16 and above require 6 GB of RAM or you’ll have to use the Go variant.
At the end of the day the entire OS has gotten bloated with features and apps have gotten larger and more resource hungry.
On my device I have 5.2GB of RAM currently allocated to “System”, and 2.9GB allocated to apps.
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
If ever there was an excuse to switch to a E/os or another legacy android custom ROM like Lineage OS.
Because with only 4GB of RAM you’re not going to get the performance you want because the operating system for newer phones takes up so much of that RAM usage.
What you’re doing right now seems like you’re attempting to push your hardware beyond it’s limitations to run software that your phone isn’t specced for.
Google generally gets around this by providing a lighter weight version of their OS for bottom tier specced phones with Android GO, and budget phones were a lot of the reason they tried this.
It’s either that or, you have settings configured in such a way that when you close certain apps they aren’t persistent in memory (which makes sense with a budget phone or a low specced phone) and honestly that could also be Google’s fault because of default settings and their propensity for memory leaks.
I would argue that it’s not every iteration of android, but I get your point. I don’t think you were looking for solutions, but just in case, my comment is here.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 month ago:
People seem to have taken this as a slight against op, but I’m gonna be real with you, for me it’s not that deep. Better to be shoved in sideways than not put in the fridge at all.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 1 month ago:
There is more than one benefit to ending physical media.
- The end of the resale market
- The end of paying for physical distribution.
- Pushing users toward online gaming so that they can pay for microtransactions.
- Live service games and seasons that require a subscriptions.
- The sale of hardware that will allow them to charge more for consoles/Harddrives.
- Game streaming (which requires an internet connection, and allows them to gather information about users).
- Game streaming that requires a whole separate online subscription.
If you thought it was just about the resale market I have some public landmarks for sale.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 month ago:
I’m my family this would have resulted in one parent telling the other parent that “your daughter” wasn’t raised right. That’s all I’m saying.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 month ago:
Just out of curiosity, who raised her?
- Comment on Something kept poking my leg on my mid-morning flight to Nashville 1 month ago:
100% Agreed.
- Comment on Something kept poking my leg on my mid-morning flight to Nashville 1 month ago:
I agree with you, but (as someone who’s reconfigured the seating on a lot of airplanes) we gotta hold airlines accountable for the continued war on leg room.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s funny because originally I didn’t understand how it was different and when it was explained to me in a factual way I did understand and changed my view and people really don’t like that.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Humans offloading the decisions to a bot that’s trained on bad decisions?
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 month ago:
Is the hilarious thing to follow suit and announce the end of them offering physical disks?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Counterargument:
The problems with Destiny 2 had to do with decisions made for shock factor that completely ignored what players actually enjoyed about the game.
AI does not have the ability to understand or make decisions about what players actually like. It is reliant on the parameters input by humans and those humans already have made a bunch of bad decisions that killed the game.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
Ok. So let’s say for the sake of argument, you have Netflix. You pay for Netflix specifically for… I dunno, Top Gear. Suddenly without warning Netflix is forced to pull Top Gear from its streaming platform because the license to provide it to stream has lapsed or been otherwise ended. That’s basically what happened here except that they allowed you to pay per show or movie.
In this case what these customers paid for is the license to stream these digital items. Which (shitty though I agree it is) they agreed to when they made their purchases. But the fact is, Sony didn’t reach into people’s Harddrives and remove anything. What they did was remove these shows and movies from the digital streaming library of people who purchased it and the only reason they did is because otherwise they’d be sued if they didn’t.
So while I appreciate your outrage, I think it’s pretty important to note that the license holder (the entity that actually owns the ability to sell distribution rights for digital licenses to consumers) is the one who sets the terms, not the platform of distribution, and this happens so often that literally not digital media is safe except when you can download it DRM free (Google play music, band camp, GOG etc).
I don’t disagree that Sony is at fault for agreeing to that distribution agreement. That’s not anything like what I said. What I said was that they did it because they are required to by law.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
I’m this particular case what they were selling wasn’t a license copy of a movie or show. They were selling a license the stream. When the contract ran out they had to pull it from the streaming platform.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
The removal of digital media is also out of their hands. They agreed to a distribution contract. The entity that owns that media offered a conditional license in that distribution agreement. Now they are either choosing not to renew or choosing to cancel the agreement and legally Sony don’t have a choice except to be sued if they continue to allow people to access that digital content.
I agree it’s shitty. I agree that it’s a crazy thing to have happen when you’re dropping the news about doing away with physical media. But it’s still not really in their control.
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 1 month ago:
This is not the first time and it will not be the last time. You have to hold Sony accountable (as consumers), and you have to hold the license holders accountable. This will keep happening on pretty much every platform that doesn’t allow a DRM free downloadable copy of the media. It will happen again.