CileTheSane
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 1 day ago:
Fair. I have quite the backlog of games to play, so if something on my wishlist is on sale I don’t bother if I currently have something I’m playing. The sale will come around again.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
Yo ho ho
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
If you like ARPGs I’d recommend checking out Last Epoch, I found the customization and skill trees much more satisfying than Grim Dawn.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
I ignored the autumn sale because I knew the winter sale would be right behind it and assumed it would have better deals
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
You wouldn’t steal a casino!
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
Diablo 3 had a rainbow in it somewhere, clearly woke garbage.
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
Tetris is Russian propaganda that teaches children doing good work is pointless as it will just be taken away and you’ll be forced to do it again until you do it half assed.
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
Super Mario Bros promotes the consumption of psychedelics.
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
See: every RPG ever.
- Comment on Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society? 4 days ago:
Satisfactory promotes a good work ethic, no problem here.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
You forgot about laws.
No I didn’t
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
You literally just break up grocery store companies and stop them from merging in the future.
Oh, so you mean LAWS?
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
“only the market can fix this”
Gestures broadly at the market
Multiple competitors just results in them all agreeing to raise prices when prices taxes are lowered.
Out of curiosity, how do you propose increasing the number of competitors? Or is this a situation of “gee, that would be nice. Oh well, I guess nothing can be done.”?
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
literally the only mechanism
You forgot about laws.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter how much competition there is of they’re all going to do it anyway.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
People who are renting out their basement or spare room are fine. They are living on their property and making space for someone else to live there as well.
Someone who owns property they do not live on, and are profiting off their renters just because their name is on the deed is the definition of parasitic behavior. There’s a reason “rent seeking behavior” is a derogatory term.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Property can be affordable or an investment, not both.
Those using property as an investment are contributing to it not being affordable.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Have we still not been able to progress past all power generation being “use water to turn a generator”? Humanity figured out the water wheel then just kept making it more complex.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
If Steam blocks my access to my legally purchased games or I refuse to run the Steam launcher there is no moral or ethical issue with me pirating my library.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
That rich asshole doesn’t try to actively interfere with things in my life.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
So we’re talking about everything except this moment in time?
- Epic doesn’t have disks either so it’s irrelevant to the discussion of Epic games. If you want to complain about eliminating physical media try talking about it in regards to someplace that actually sells physical media.
If Steam is bad because no physical media then so is Epic.
- But I guess Epic is okay because of how things are right now right? but I shouldn’t bring up how things are on Steam right now? In direct comparison?
Pick an era in time you would like to complain about, and if it’s the early 2000s then go bitch to people in the early 2000s. I’m sure many of them are complaining about the loss of physical media. People still used Steam anyway and now it’s the norm. Now people are complaining about exclusivity deals, if people still use Epic anyway then that will become the norm.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
going to bite our asses real bad when gaben retires.
Blizzard was a good company when they released StarCraft, so I purchased StarCraft. Blizzard is a shit company now so I do not purchase or play their games now.
If Steam becomes a shit company in the future I’ll stop using it. I don’t understand the argument of "you should purchase for a shitty company now instead of a good one, because if you purchase from the good one it might one day become a shitty one.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Steam is really good, they’ve been putting massive resources into making it better for many years
Damn, imagine how good Epic could be if instead of buying exclusives it spent that money on improving itself?
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Copying my reply to someone else:
Epic is anti-customer: medium.com/…/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-f…
Tldr: Kickstarter Game with a lot of interest while in development announces a release date on Steam. After the date announcement they get contacted by Epic saying “we’d love to host your game” for an exclusivity deal.
Dev responds that they would be happy to have their game on Epic but promises were made during crowd funding that it would be available on Steam.
Epic replies that they aren’t interested if it’s not exclusive.This tells me that
- Epic is full of shit. "We’d love to have your game, but only if it’s exclusive.
- Epic doesn’t care about being a better service for its customers. Having the game available on Epic as well is strictly better for Epic’s customers and they easily could have done that. They chose not to.
- Epic is not interested in actually having to compete with other companies. This would require them to provide a better service in some fashion. They are only interested if they can force people “if you want to purchase this game you have to buy it through us” which is anti-consumer.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Consumers are going to use the platform better for consumers. I’m not going to purchase a shitty car because the company pays its workers more.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
The difference is the developer deciding they don’t want to bother going through the effort of making their game available on every platform on the Internet, vs. a dev saying “we are going to release a game on this platform”, even doing presales, and then saying “oh, some guy just gave us a bunch of money to not sell you the thing we promised.”
Ya, that’s great for the devs being given a bunch of money, but that’s shitty for me so I’m not going to give money to the rich asshole doing this so that he can keep doing it
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
That’s great that devs can benefit from it, I will not purchase the game until it’s available on other platforms due to Epic’s general shitty behavior.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
You couldn’t sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.
Epic lets you sell your games to someone else?
As to your 2nd point I play my friend’s games all the time. I haven’t purchased Satisfactory but have almost 100% it on Steam playing my friend’s copy.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
medium.com/…/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-f…
They waited until a game previously announced for Steam was finished development and had a launch date, then tried to bribe them with an exclusivity deal to not provide the game on the platform they promised to backers.
They weren’t paying a damn thing for development, just to eliminate consumer choice. Instead of, you know, providing a better service in some way so people want to purchase from you instead.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
I would have purchased Borderlands 3 day 1, instead I waited and was warned off by shitty reviews.