“People” as in maybe 5% of players. Most of the money is in what is being released - live services, forever games. They’re not idiots, they have statistics and know what most players actually pay for.
The entirety of sales for Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, generated less money than a single mount skin in World of Warcraft.
Uh huh, great job rewriting history. The US are traitors, same as the UK and France. Fuck em all, one after the other. Your country sold out brothers in arms.
No VR headset will ever replace monitors. At the end of the day they require something to be pressed up to your face, with a screen that gets hot after extended use. Ask people to wear paper masks and see how it goes, then compare it to a monitor strapped to your face.
Yeah so why not avoid war by appeasement. Give Hitler France when we are at it shall we?
This is the fucked up part. Poles fought like demons for their freedom and got sold out. Now people say shit “oh we couldn’t do anything else” when they actually mean “Poland wasn’t worth it”. Poland had mutual defense agreements that if followed through with, would’ve ended the war in 1940 with the French in Berlin. Then they got betrayed a second time in Yalta.
It’s not necessairly manufacturers, you can shrinkwrap shit really easily. Lots of scammers do it, so they don’t get checked when returning.
Delusions of grandeour
?? I didn’t “briefly think” to write any name, it goes straight to the gas stove.
I’d burn it. I’m not a murderer. Having a way to murder someone doesn’t make me want to do it.
All of the differences are semantics or nitpicking. Of course it has its own history - it didn’t spin off reddit. It isn’t a clone from an alternative universe. The point is - it’s a link aggregator / social media, with the very same problems reddit has. It has issues with moderation, it has issues with powertripping, with users, etc. “Getting away” from reddit, going to Lemmy and complaining about it becoming too much like reddit means OP has never realized that there aren’t any meaningful differences. The users aren’t any better. The mods / admins aren’t any better. The quality of posts isn’t any better. Federation doesn’t mean much to a regular user.
If you read some of the posts about reddit on here, you’d think reddit is some hellhole with lemmy being a perfect site.
Lemmy has always been reddit but with less people, if not even worse in the moderation aspect. You simply noticed it recently.
First, China censorship. Shit like cannot type “free Taiwan” in chat. Second, every two lost matches in quickplay (PvP) you have a chance of the game putting you against a bot team, giving you a “free win”. In reality it is a shitty slog that you need to basically wait through. You cannot leave the match or you will get a leaver’s penalty. Of course nowhere is it stated that the enemy team are bots. They have cookie cutter names, when you check profiles after the match it says they all are “restricted”. When you spectate them, you can see how unnatural / bottish their aiming and movement is. You get two bots put on your team and 6 bots against you. In a supposedly PvP gamemode with no opt-out.
I mean, most devs wouldn’t ban people playing on linux to begin with? Sure, they fixed their bullshit but I wouldn’t call this praiseworthy, especially with the other shady things the game is pulling and with them being silent on it
Playtime has nothing to do with this. If I pull 800hrs in Garry’s Mod and then 10 people buy Fifa and put in 2hrs each, most of the playtime is mine in an old game. Yet I paid like $10 for it and they spent $600. It also isn’t surprising that older games have more playtime - more time for someone who is “hooked” to play something. There is only 24hrs in a day after all. Also this doesn’t count live service games seperately and games outside of steam - League of Legends comes to mind. Same for Warframe. Huge behemoths that people play for hundreds of hours and spend hundreds of dollars on.