Have strong opinions, but I welcome any civil fact-based discussion.
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This is not new, but it’s well sourced and easily digestible for most people. The issue is that Valve has de facto monopoly and when Epic Games (even selfishly) tried to address that issue gamers went for their throat instead of cheering.
There are small storefronts that exist in the background, but they are either indie only like itch.io
, Game Jolt or run by a publisher with primarily their catalog like GOG, Origin, Uplay (or whatever it’s called now), Battle.net
, etc. And even then many of them eventually become available on Steam because that’s what gamers ask for. People are too stupid to help themselves, so unless some regulations force a change, we are stuck with this.
<…> managed to exit it first time <…>
That is not possible…
I would agree if it was outside of Japan. But since we are talking about Japanese courts, more precisely Tokyo courts, this has huge likelihood of success.
It’s fun for a while, but for me, it lacks the replayability. I have ~50ish hours in there, but after that I just couldn’t stay engaged. Even tried again after a bigger patch, still couldn’t hook me in.
If he wanted, he could have just open sourced the game, but chose not to.
For those that love the drama.
All 30 people that were active at the time of the announcements are devastated.
I think you are grasping at straws to be angry at something. Nowhere did the author blame Valve for banning him, and he jokingly mentioned that Esc dismissed the message instead of clicking OK
. In his update, he even asked to be mocked for getting banned since he exposed himself by doing his job.
Asking not to do something in a popup is not binding in any way, shape or form, it’s just friendly asking, no matter if you click Esc or OK or any other key.
I can agree with you that it’s a douche move to leak all the info, but at the same time it’s his job and there were no binding terms. Valve could have easily prevented this if that was their goal, but they really want the info to leak far and wide.
Triple Click - Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, and Jason Schreier talk about video games and sometimes other things, too.
Anyone can sign, even from outside of EU, but the votes needed for petition to go through will only count from EU members.
Oh, please, tell me how companies ignore profitable markets because of laws they don’t like. China and Russia have some weird gaming laws that require companies to remake their whole game assets to sell there, yet they do it.
Most of them that make them money. Steam Charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/global
And this doesn’t even take into account mobile games that generated 49% of global games market share revenue in 2023.
My few hours comment was never exact for a reason, but it reasonably conveys that the work requires is trivial in the full game development cycle and not an insurmountable task that will bankrupt game developers like you try to do.
Most of what they use built-in in game engines, not their standalone code. It’s a matter of switching the servers used with some minor tweaks.
It’s every game sold to EU citizens, not only those made in the EU.
The company wouldn’t be required to keep their servers online, just to allow other people to host their own. So it has 0 ongoing cost and maybe few hours of coding during game development.
That would cut them off from a huge market. Just look at bad actors like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. They comply with EU laws, since losing the market would hurt them too much financially.
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Have you used Steam in the early days? It took 5 years before they added basic community features.
A better product means nothing if you have no users. Case in point all the enshitified platforms that still exist to this day.
Only option. That’s the ultimate issue, which you prefer to ignore.