Why are you assuming they are grinning about it? They were hosting this all before in a very laissez fair approach. Unbelievable. It’s not “bearing” the payment processors, it’s existential. Either they do as they say or they go offline, how hard is this to understand?
Itch’s general discussion board is insane to read right now. Filled with death threats and threats of lawsuits against itch. Who knows what kind of instant action the payment processors were demanding, do you really think they had a choice in this?
Instead of supporting the staff and showing some patience the nsfw players and devs turned on themselves. I wouldn’t blame itch for permanently kicking all nsfw content off the platform after this lack of support from the community. The naivety is stunning. Like itch staff can just wave a magic wand to keep paid nsfw games as an option.
What we need is collective action against these mega corporations, instead of kicking down at a barely profitable game reseller that allows you to set revenue share to 0%.
All this not too long after the Funko domain takedown too, the itch staff really can’t catch a break. I hope this isn’t the end of itch just yet.
Itch is lower and would have grown much more by now if people could actually sell games cheaper there. That’s how real competition works.
Steam has the lowest price because they force you to use the highest price, their price, on all other storefronts. It doesn’t give you any better pricing on Steam.
Right now a game is $10 on both Steam and itch. If Valve didn’t abuse their position it would be smth like $8 on itch because their fees are lower. Valve pretends this is allowed in their contracts but instead bullies devs into price parity.
Whether this also applies to sales depends on how much Valve likes you, on that particular day.
I started getting those daily a few years ago. It annoyed the crap out of me so I decided to use ringtones instead of vibration. Took a few weeks for the phantoms to get out of my leg.
Haha wat een baas. Als ie maar een ollie voor elkaar had gekregen was het legendarisch geweest. Aan het filmpje te zien is dit bij het stadhuis geweest.
De truc is natuurlijk dat het doosje zwaarder is dan het zakje waardoor men denkt meer te krijgen.
Wat mij betreft is het altijd een miskoop geweest. Zelfs als je Lays lekkerder vind, ik zou het niet weten, na 5x huismerk eten mis je het verschil toch niet meer. Zelfde met energy drink en tienduizend andere voedingsmiddelen.
Season 4 Episode 4 if I remember correctly. He is credited as writer on the Wikipedia list of episodes. I can recommend the rest of the season as well, less than two hours
I’m glad for Laidlaw not getting stuck on Half-Life. It’s been a long time, people grow and move on. Imagine him feeling like this about Half-Life but writing for the sequel anyway out of a sense of duty, completion or other silly reason. It would be a total disaster. Half-Life: Alyx was fantastic, and felt like just another entry, a natural fit, in the Half-Life universe. This is not in spite of, nor because of, Laidlaw being absent from its development. There are simply a bunch of amazing people putting their heart and soul into these games.
I do hope the next Half-Life entry will be a regular PC game though. I wouldn’t wish it upon people who don’t own VR to miss out on another excellent game.
On a sidenote its crazy we got a Love Death & Robots episode based on Laidlaw’s first book. Definitely gonna watch that.
Haha yeah you definitely don’t want to do that. It was meant as a slightly ridiculous hypothetical. There are definitely better suited UI libraries it there.
Fijn dat het daadwerkelijk van de grond komt. Een paar dagen terug waren er meerdere petities met minder dan 100 handtekeningen. Als er een duidelijke “hoofdpetitie” is zijn er toch meer mensen geneigd om te tekenen.
Bit barebones reporting. Here’s an article that at least quotes portions of the interview: https://wccftech.com/epic-games-launcher-is-indeed-clunky-admits-epics-tim-sweeney/
I can only partially empathize with the argument that Steam is better because of 15 years of refinement. Yes, they have a big featureset, amazing APIs, developer kit, the workshop, the list goes on. There are a lot of technical challenges here.
However, what cannot be excused with this argument is the Epic Launcher UX being this clunky, lmao. Yes, making a bunch of UI is nontrivial and takes work, but its also not rocket science. The layered and staggered loading of different UI elements and overal slowness of the whole thing cannot be explained by the lifespan of Epic Launcher. Steam was just as responsive on my old Windows XP back in the day as it is now. Throw something like Dear ImGui at a bunch of juniors and they could make something that is snappier than what the Epic Launcher is now.
Google made a bunch of useful metrics called Core Web Vitals that represent responsiveness pretty well. I’m sure they would score awfully on all of them.
It’s not that strange a thing to think about. Steam partners have abused the system before creating a fuckton of games just for achievements, trading cards and emoticons. Also Banana
Wow, didn’t even go into the quality of the sticks, triggers and buttons. Fine, I guess? Anyone can put the Deck, Legion Go, Switch and even an Xbox controller next to each other to make that comparison.
The performance issues are pretty much what I expect from any handheld that tries to push the resolution and refresh rate much farther than the Steam Deck or Switch. You won’t get any benefit out of it, just a higher price. Well, it’s nice for indie games probably.
You could make better use of the screen if you double down on the integrated graphics and make the whole thing like €1200. I’m not big on hardware knowledge but there are more powerful chips out there that fit in a handheld, right? Battery life would probably be terrible.
That is some amazing performance. 400 CCU on a single server. The zoning system and dependency graph with rollback are impressive as well.
Sadly people are already running automated scripts on it. I saw the black knights of 3 adjacent boards moving simulataneously to kill the white kings everywhere.
Ah yes, solving design problems by asking players nicely.
In a traditional MMO like World of Warcraft, it’s not like you build a base in the starter zone and leave it there for a week, because imagine how many bases would be stacking up. [But] that’s kind of how our game does work because you can end up with a lot of bases.
I’m pretty sure most people dislike destroying their own stuff or alternatively, cleaning up. If you’re gonna let them have multiple bases instead of just one, what do you expect?
Just speculating but: it sounds like they only tested this with small groups, and that worked. If that’s what you’re going for, you have to set up the game to play in small groups, not as an MMO… In hindsight they might wish they had put player bases in separate instances.
If Mario is 100x more expensive than it needs to be, and there are millions of games that are just as good for a dime, you don’t buy Mario.
Facebook and YouTube weren’t as good at recommending things back then. It’s not the internet as a whole that’s the problem, it’s what social media has become. Addiction skinner boxes. It’s not ok for kids to grow up using that.
This is solving a systematic problem. The problem of social media companies having free reign to make kids addicted. This will give french kids more freedom to think and do actual things with their life.
My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn’t change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn’t make any sense.