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In-game purchases should display the exact cost in the local currency. In-game currency should be completely banned.

There’s so much good content on there too, don’t forget that.

I had the same experience, I think the simplest way is to just have servers separated like they are now in Discord, and you can join them and chat in them even if you signed up at a different server.

That’s how it is unfortunately. The best way to get people on Matrix would be by communities hosting on Matrix and advertising that actively in their Discord guilds. Providing simple instructions to pick a client and sign up. Show people they can customise how they like etc, that will help, people love shiny things. Once you have people signed up and using the platform, then they can figure out the federation by being exposed to it.

Matrix is better in all these regards yes, but Revolt has one major upperhand. Onboarding simplicity. A big reason the fediverse has struggled to gain major traction.

If you have to read documentation to understand how to sign up to something, then that’s immediately enough friction to turn users away. Bluesky worked because it was simple sign-up, Mastodon has switched to this too now, offering a button to send people immediately to a signup page on their default server. For major adoption, you have to get people in the door before you explain federation, not the other way around. Sending people to list of servers and clients they can use is bad user experience for the masses.

Revolt will appeal to Discord users more than Matrix, because you download Revolt and sign up to Revolt, there’s no extra thought required.

It’s cool, but the problem is the scale, how is Revolt going to fund the server costs if people ever started migrating from Discord? Just purely donations?

They have exploring an IPO for like 4 years now.

If it’s free to play, then some cosmetic mtx are fine, thats what I used to think, the problem is how egregious they have become. They are not designed as a way to support a game, they are designed to suck as much money as they can from you. Which is why I disagree with supporting them at all anymore.

Games should be a one-off purchase, with no extra added bullshit.

International law couldnt give a fuck about that. That’s like saying Russia could legally invade Ukraine if they have a law saying it’s okay.

In a case like SteamOS where it’s custom built for the hardware, then yes. As a general set it up yourself situation on a desktop, then no.

(You guys severely underestimate the ‘mainstream’ gamer)

No, that’s just a raffle. They had mini games during the sales.

They kinda died along side the flash deals. I miss the crazy sales, but I understand why they removed them.

PC is the fastest growing market. Consoles are slumping and I think the return of Steam Machines done right would accelerate the market shift.

I was talking about the people buying the microtransactions. I should have made that clear, I thought it could be deduced, given Valve aren’t exactly ruining the game industry by stat tracking 1.7 million users, but I can see how it was confused.

Lmao… it’s not Steam hate, it’s the people buying the MTX. I wasn’t clear enough, my bad.

Thanks to them (the people buying microtransactions) for helping ruin the industry!

Okay, then people can download whatever they want, maybe they are making their own ai too.

No, you dont understand, if a Chinese company owns 1 share, it is spyware!!1!1!!1!!!

Yeah. You know the saying “living under a rock”? The people in this thread have never even looked under the rock.

You’d be surprised then. Bill Gates was the richest man and not everyone knew him either. Warren Buffett was too and even less knew him.