Whirlybird @ Whirlybird @aussie.zone

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Red Dead Redemption 2? I got that on PC for like AUD$20 6 months ago (RRP AUD$120). Elden Ring on PC has been half price at least plenty of times already.

Returnal is Sony who don't like to drop their prices too much, but it has also been on sale for half price.

Because giving valve 30% of a new sale is better than no sale. Again - the only people buying the game on steam are people that are "no steam no buy" or people buying the game again. Diablo doesn't need exposure, it's one of the biggest gaming franchises around. What they want is more players and more money - not because it failed, but because that's what profit driven companies do.

Also microsoft release all their PC games on steam, and Microsoft just bought Blizzard so this was likely done in preparation for the purchase.

The game is 4 months old, 25% off on a sale is to be expected. The majority of a games sales are always heavily frontloaded.

Nobody sells on Epic unless Epic pay them.

no idea why Diablo games look like cartoon shit these days instead of the dope ass dark moody environments of the first two.

Diablo 2 was cartoony as hell lol. What are you talking about? If anything, 3 and 4 have gone more back towards the originals visuals.

Worth the effort? It's zero effort. They don't have to re-make the game to release it on a different PC launcher. What's the total player count for steam? Peak is irrelevant, it's not an online shooter that needs a huge concurrent player count.

A quick google for steam charts shows shows a 24 hour peak concurrent players of 7,152 players, double your figure. You seem to be looking at the current number of concurrent players, not peak. 7152 x USD$60 is almost half a million dollars, just in people that played at the exact same time in the last 24 hours, for a release that would have taken 1 guy an hour to do.

The game is also more popular on consoles than ever and available on battlenet, where most diablo players on PC buy diablo. Using steam numbers to say diablo 4 is a failure is like the people using Steam numbers to say Starfield is a failure. Those people are eating crow currently seeing as Starfield was the number 1 selling game in the US in its release month and went straight to the 7th best selling game of the year after people called it a "complete bomb".

They have a brand new IP coming out in the next few years. Action rpg iirc.

edit: strange downvote for stating facts:

https://www.mmorpg.com/news/blizzard-is-creating-an-original-ip-survival-game-set-in-a-new-universe-2000124180

It says nothing of how “poorly” they’re doing. A big portion of the PC master race crowd are hardcore steam Stan’s that are “no steam no buy”. Releasing on steam brings extra sales that they otherwise wouldn’t have gotten.

As for the rest of your rant, well the less said the better. Kotick has made every part of ABK the most successful they’ve ever been.

So do you want to support the artist or not?

Obviously it’s different for unsigned artists who have self published, thought that was pretty self explanatory since they don’t have a record label/publisher/etc that takes the bulk of the money.

Also important to know that Spotify is a net positive for artists, even though they pay not much. The music industry is one of the very few where being “paid in exposure” actually is a valid thing. Spotify gets your music out there in front of tens/hundreds of millions of people that would usually never ever hear your music, and you’ll convert some of them to fans that will see you live in shows and buy merch. Artists make no money on cd sales either, that all goes to the labels/publishers/producers/etc.

That’s your right, but by not being on Spotify you’re likely worse off. I’ve discovered many bands on Spotify that I’ve then seen live and bought merch that I’d never have heard of otherwise. It’s one of the rare times where being paid in exposure actually works.

You should still support services that you use though. Pirate music if you want, but if you use Spotify you should pay for it.

Even buying the cd only puts a few bucks at best in the artists pockets. 80%+ goes to the publisher/producer/marketing/etc.

If you want to support an artist go see them live and/or buy merch from them directly. Anything what is just supporting publishers.

Artists don’t generally make money from music sales unless they self publish. Spotify gets the music out there and heard so people discover bands and go see them in concert and buy merch, which is where bands make their money.

It’s crazy that it’s 2023 and people still don’t understand this.

Anecdotes is all we have. You never saw yes advertising, I never saw no advertising.

There’s that arrogant stupidity I mentioned :)

I didn't see a single No ad on television. Yes ads were everywhere though, all over tv (murdoch channels included) and even youtube.

Typical far left way of thinking. Call the people that you want to vote for your ideologies and ideas more hateful words, I’m sure it’ll definitely work for you this time.

You guys are so arrogantly stupid you can’t even figure out the real reason why you lost.

You yes voters just can’t help but keep trying to make everyone think that you’re so much smarter than us no voters can you? 😂

I know how it works, which is why I think attempting to make a Constitutionally protected advisory group is stupid.

Labor didn’t even put out a “if this succeeds this is what we will do and this is what the voice will look like”. Something as simple as that would have made a world of difference.

I’m happy you won’t respond anymore, I’ve had enough smug virtue signalling.