I love communism

And I’m sure you live on one of the many successful communist countries in the world today.

Oh, wait.

and circus performers

Well at least you have high self esteem.

they both bring joy to the masses

The masses*

* the portion of them that is not in a gulag, is not disappeared, doesn’t have its rights curtailed due to social credit decline for disagreeing with the regime, wasn’t purposefully starved to death during the holodomor, and so forth.

And don’t get me started on the evils of the circus performers who propagandise for them from the comfort of their liberal democracies.

There is a reason communism is treated with equal acrimony to nazism in every former soviet satellite state, m8.

How’s the bile, you seething commie clown?

valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.

And the goalposts go flying.

Who the fuck cares if valve is cute and cuddly? Who even wants that in a marketplace other than morons who think they can take advantage of someone else’s kindness?

Valve is a company, their job is to make money for the people who own it.

• You the customer want the most out of your transaction with them, they know it make it a priority.
• They understand that devs working there making fucktons of money is good because they’ll stay and be motivated to work, so they are selective on who they hire and then pay them an insane amount.
• They want to avoid microsoft cutting their nuts off so they pushed linux as a viable alternative.
• They want devs to sell on their platform so they refined a business deal that works well enough that they get several new games on their storefront a day and still make back their operating costs, despite servers that can literally be used to benchmark several gigabit download connections.
• They are the most economically effective company in the world and they achieved it by not enshittifying their platform and not going public.

Selflessness would literally be a downgrade, I want Valve to have every damn cent they earned.

They’re not the only game in town, they are the best game in town, and at every turn they make an effort not to become a monopoly, either, because they know the good will of their customer base is more important than attempts at short term spikes in company revenue, which is only possible because they are a privately held company.

So yeah, are they cuddly and nice? No, fuck no, but they are extremely effective while providing a service that puts every other provider in their field to shame, so why the fuck would I want them to change?

They could, but why would they when 30% is fair still? You are not entitled to setting other people’s asking price, and they are entitled to setting the cost of their own labour.

If anyone is greedy here it’s you, demanding to have a say in how much is a fair rate for someone else’s time and skill.

If you’re a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you’re just “a dev” then it’s not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale.

Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.

taking 30% from devs by doing nothing.

LMAO tell me you are not a dev without telling me.

Steam does a shitton for devs, the 30% is literally only for sales through their storefront, I can get any amount of keys and resell them wherever I want and give valve nothing, and they’ll still host all my shit, check ownership, handle copy sharing in family libraries, handle patching and beta tests, all for a one time fee that is even refunded if you ever get past a certain amount of copies sold.

You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

I’d argue that’s precisely when you need 6 yachts, possibly more.

If the coasts are gonna flood you should porbably own things that float.

Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion

Unfathomably based, let the man scuba dive in peace.

On Steam you can report review bombing events to have the reviews struck from the list so…

And the working at blizzard line is mocking Thor for literally never shutting the fuck up about his nepobaby job.

Sure, but a lot of people are, and crucially nintendo is.

Also, I’m saying this cost them also on the returns side of things even before the lawsuit.

Yet more people just bought new ones, put the old ones in the box, and returned them for a refund while in the free return period, citing them as faulty.

I don’t own a switch but I know I would’ve done that at a large chain electronic shop rather than bother with the repair rigamarole.

There is the horipad as an option, but I’m not sure if it’s available outside Japan yet.

I got one last time I was there and it’s pretty good, not perfect but it would fit the parameters you gave.

That was before the systematic casualization of nerd hobbies, people were still protective of the things they were fans of.

If you’re in circles of hardcore fans, we hate this shit just as much as back then LMAO

The only thing possibly holding them off is that there’s 2 or 3 factions all wanting to long knife™ eachother at the first chance, which means they have to be ready to go as soon as the power vacuum happens, and one of the factions controls the VP seat.

That might delay the chaos a bit, but not for long.

The impossible Is they’re saying their reflection on the darkened screen.

Yep. I played an earlier version but it’s the same game.

The key thing that made me notice was the scarecrow cards that allowed you to pick up your units, those make sense in Condottiere as it’s divided in rounds where you fight multiple battles, so it made sense to pick up your units if you had excess power and were winning anyway, save your strength for the next battle in the round, whereas it made a lot less sense in Gwent given its 1v1 nature and fixed amount of rounds.

Mind you Gwent evolved a lot afterwards, I don’t know much beyond the witcher 3 version, which I still enjoyed plenty.

Gwent is actually a slight hack of an existing board game called Condottiere, which is IMO the better game.

Cause that’s not how salaries work?

Salaries grow because people negotiate for better salaries, either through collective action or by being indispensable and getting better offers, not by magic.

The game industry is full of wannabes chomping at the bit to get in, so maybe seniors can hope to haggle for a higher cut or become partners of a studio, everyone else is entirely replaceable, which means their salaries will grow extremely slowly already.

Add to that that the industry selects for financially stable/affluent croney kids by using unpaid internships to filter anyone who would be overly dependent on their salary and basically select for rich “starving” artist types and you have a recipe for a ridiculously strong buyer’s market when it comes to salaries.

Yeah, sales have also gone way up.

They also conveniently forget that trans men exist when trying to argue their point.

1. Most people forget trans men exist. If they get surgery and hormones they almost always pass enough to go completely stealth in day to day interactions, which is sadly rarely true for trans women.
2. Trans men in sports overperform compared to cis women whom they wouldn’t want to compete against in the first place, and underperform against cis men. There is no reason to worry about an unfair advantage by allowing trans men to compete in their preferred category, and men’s categories are often open categories to begin with, so there may not even be a rule against it.