But, why?

It truly is a mystery why I wouldn’t want to play a game which was infamous for pedophiles immediately flocking toward. Indeed, why wouldn’t anyone want to be associated with that?

Wait, Microsoft and Epic are the only ones who do 12% with 30% being the industry standard, why are you trying to imply that’s not the case?

https://www.1d3.com/blog/platform-fees

The demo was okay but I’m waiting for the fanbase to stop being fucking disgusting before I go close to buying it.

Back on my bullshit in DOTA whilst my ever growing backlog looms menacingly behind me. I need to get back into playing ARC but the loot RNG can be really annoying sometimes.

I wouldn’t say that apps have killed dating, more that there are fewer public third spaces to run into a potential partner coupled with far too many people wanting a quick and easy fix (like an app) for finding such places; the times I’ve seen people throw their hands up and declare it impossible to meet people because they find it difficult to google things in their area is concerning.

Tzimisce is still doing well, I see.

(Keikaku means plan)

Because companies have a legal responsibility to increase value to shareholders; morals don’t enter into it.

In this case, we need to migrate our friends and family one last time to something that will let us relax almost permanently for once.

But it’s always “one last time”. It’s always an uphill battle to switch over and then people give whatever reasons for why it’s bad and you’re expected to just quit it.

I’m getting real tired of being told to delete my only methods of keeping in touch with friends and family. To what extent is someone expected to isolate themselves to the detriment of their own wellbeing to put a marginal dent on the bottom line of a multimillion dollar company?

Any game is casual if you’re employed enough.

I feel almost the exact opposite; I can jump into Helldivers 2 as if I’d never left and keep on playing but trying to play Space Marine 2 now feels like I’m constantly behind everyone else and trying to catch up.

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Taking the work of artists without compensating them for your own commercial gain is ethically bankrupt and theft. The fact that you keep likening an AI model to actual person demonstrates that this isn’t a conversation worth continuing.

If looking at a picture is stealing. . .

Except that’s not what AI and those who use it are doing. This is a deliberate oversimplification to try to excuse derivative and copied works of artists who have had their art stolen. When you do it, it’s copyright infringement. When AI does it, you get a deluge of people who lack the patience and discipline to actually produce any creative work trying to excuse it.

Can’t wait for the AI to start giving me tips based on a previous entry in a series because that’s all it knows about, referring to mechanics which no longer exist and set-ups which are no longer possible.

Not wanting to sell a product isn’t censorship of the product. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what censorship is.

The majority of countries where Steam sells games have strict laws regarding the depiction of minors in any kind of situation which could be considered sexual, whether it’s a real child or not. It’s a very strange hill to die on when the devs clearly identified that was the issue and removed it from their game.

Whether you believe a platform should get backlash for platforming something in questionable taste and legality is entirely separate to whether they actually will.

Sure but you must realise that if Steam were to platform a game featuring a child riding a naked adult in a horse mask, a sequence that the devs have removed in order to have the game on any platform for sale at all, Steam would face a significant amount of backlash and potential legal action for doing so. Why should Steam be obligated to publish a game?

There’s already been extensive discussion about this already; the whole thing stinks of the dev trying to get extra publicity because the fucked around and found out.