GeneralEmergency
@GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
- Comment on We have one at home 1 day ago:
Yeah but this one has my favourite monopoly’s logo on it.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 5 days ago:
It’s also how conspiracy theories spread.
People sharing it thinking it’s a joke.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 days ago:
Then saying Sony has nothing to do with the Nintendo stuff. Is to put it lightly. FUCKING BULLSHIT.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 5 days ago:
G*mers will buy anything if it has their favourite monopoly logo on it.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 5 days ago:
As far as I remember, and I may be wrong, you could always the refund, but with a very short time frame.
Clearly you didn’t read the article.
Literally states (very early on I might add) that Steam had you waiving the right to a refund.
And yes. No company is perfect. But only Valve has brainwashed G*mers into accepting its monopoly and Shite customer support.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 days ago:
My brother is Christ.
They literally worked together to create a company to handle the IP.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Linux users are a different breed.
G*mers are a different breed.
Linux G*mers. Holy jesus.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 6 days ago:
www.gamespot.com/articles/…/1100-6425990/
The reason you can get refunds. Is because Steam did this shit for years, until the EU told them to wise up.
So fuck off with your revisionist “Steam is consumer friendly” bullshit.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 6 days ago:
Calling Sony a bunch of bastards here.
While calling Palworld an indy game despite the Sony connection.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 6 days ago:
Seeing G*mers attitudes change on Sony between this and Palworld. Is a tonal whiplash to say the least.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
My point was that self distribution was already a thing.
And Steam didn’t improve download speeds. If Steam was around then it would be subject to the same speed restrictions.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
So you’re willingly misremembering to reinforce your brainwashing.
That’s just plain sad.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.
Epic takes 12% and 0% until the game reaches a million. Devs are paid in full for free and giveaways and games on sale.
Microsoft also only takes 12%
It’s only standard because Gabe got his greedy hands there first.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.
Being honest with you. I didn’t read past this. Because it’s so obvious you’re a young G*mer who has only lived in a Steam world.
Steam paid for exclusivity with publishers. Getting them to not only pull games from other online stores (because there were a number of stores back in the day before Steam killed them).
But also to change their physical copies to use Steam as DRM.
consumer rights are in the focus
Ok so I skimmed the rest of the comments and had to laugh here. The EU literally had to come out and tell Valve to stop being anti-consumerist cunts. And even now they’re only doing the bare minimum. Jesus Christ you must still be in school.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
Twenty years ago, was 2005.
Cave Story was the year before, Dwarf Fortress was a year out, and Doom was Doom.
Self publishing was a big thing, shareware and early online distribution. Even bigger than it is now. (Because there’s not a monopoly sucking in all the eyes(which includes you it seems as you can’t even imagine a non-Steam world (probably because you’re a young lad trying to act old)))
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
valve does not enforce a monopoly, its just the competition shoots themselves in the foot all the time
Since you’re clearly too young. I’ll give you a history lesson.
Twenty years ago. Valve started paying publishers to change their physical games to use Steam. The Disc (because games came on discs back then) were useless without the Steam code.
They also paid for exclusivity. As there were quite a few digital distribution platforms at the time. IGN even had one.
free advertising on mentioned storefront
Aww dude. There’s no free advertising.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 1 week ago:
Noooo!!!
It is ok for Gabe to be billionaire and profit off predatory gambling practices on children and micro transactions and selling broken games and selling unfinished games and repeatedly trying to monopolise the pc hardware industry and being anti consumer and taking 30% of all game sales
Because he monopolised the PC marketplace so I no longer have to leave the house to buy anime porn games.
- Comment on Happy Christmas 1 week ago:
Dude’s got a degree in Not Gay Titty Physics.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
No. But thinking it does sure helps inflate egos.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s your own fucking mess.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Lemmites will never miss an opportunity to make things difficult to draw attention to themselves.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Lemmites love to make things more difficult than they need to be.
Bo
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 month ago:
And it’s a problem that will hit the smaller dev studios harder.
As they are the ones fighting for attention. Especially on the monopolised PC marketplace.
- Comment on "Read lit" Me: 2 months ago:
Must be a Matt Neal fan
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 months ago:
Haha no spices
That joke comes from yanks who are used to drowning their food in sugar syrup to mask the taste of underage mexican day labourer blood.
- Comment on What a shocker! 3 months ago:
Gamers aren’t well adjusted people
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 months ago:
To me Disco Elysium was the next example of the “Art Game”.
The game people bring up when discussing Game as Art, without actually explaining what makes it art.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 months ago:
“which games”
The multitude of incest games that litter Steam’s new releases?
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 months ago:
The ICO trilogy
- Comment on cookie combs 3 months ago:
Shame about all the pentagons there.