I think they’ll keep doing it until it essentially becomes a meme and we can all roll our eyes each time we see it.
Eh, they probably couldn’t find the sweet spot of putting forth minimal effort while making maximal profit off of people’s low standards.
I don’t really have sympathy for them because this game was most likely going to be more garbage on the pile.
I disagree with that.
Surely there is someone, somewhere who is unable or deterred from using Instagram in Russia because of the ban.
Disgusting.
Yes, the issue is the low standards.
I’m a firm-believer that if there was a product that could compete with Steam, then people would use it of their own volition.
GOG is the only platform people ever willfully recommend to others without twisting their arms because of exclusives or deals. Why? Well, they have something Steam doesn’t. Epic, Blizzard, Rockstar, all of them have platforms that exist to do one thing: make rich people richer off of the backs of useful idiots.
Getting mad at Steam for having market dominance is asinine. Get mad at the market for rewarding bloated companies who put out garbage just to make themselves more bloated and the useful idiots who go along with it.
What? We still have useful idiots saying “X show is available on Y(netflix, apple, disney, amazon, etc) paid streaming service” instead of just giving a link to free streaming services like https://hydrahd.com/
Manufactured outrage is just that: manufactured. People get mad about things other people get mad about to fit in.
A company that makes a billionaire out of its owner is overcharging you, no matter how much you like the company or the owner.
I agree, but I think people who subscribe to this mentality should be focusing their efforts on more than just Valve.
Do you think you would get the same buggy mess if every single publisher had 30% more budget to work with?
Yes, 1000%.
Games are buggy because developers/publishers/players don’t care. Money has nothing to do with it and if they had more money, they would just pocket it and release garbage for people like you.
Sometimes, monopoly implicitly means a business that is so much better than the competition that the competition is pretty much irrelevant.
I think that used to apply to Steam.
I don’t think the security issues with windows stem from not having the user enter their password a bunch of times.
Yeah, but you gotta admit it’s possible windows does some things better.
I also think a lot of linux users get tunnel-visioned and believe that something is incorrect simply because it’s how another OS does it.
Thank you for the informative response. I was unaware Windows machines employed similar behavior in corporate environments.
Do you think, then, that it would be acceptable for Linux to remove these restrictions in home environments?
Who are you writing this for?
Right back at ya.
It’s not nearly as bad as it is now.
And it was always a scam, even back then.
Not really.
Lol, sorry that bothers you.
Yep.
Sorry.
Yeah. Unfortunately the only developers that are allowed to release good products in this economic landscape are 1st party Sony devs.
Everyone else gets to profit off of people’s low standards.