beefcat @ beefcat @lemmy.world

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that’s totally fair in my book

i would think “the best tv show ever” is worth at least a little more than nothing

it’s on hulu, and in higher quality than this torrent

it is ok on a 2060. the high minimum spec is not because of performance, but because older GPUs do not support mesh shaders. that is why it runs ok on a 2060 while being unplayable on the much faster 1080 Ti

next summer at the earliest

I find this behavior annoying, I actually like to place windows in corners with a small margin

You can play the two "finished" levels from beginning to end, but the actual gameplay is very rough.

Consumers also won when a Walmart would open up in their neighborhood and run the local stores out of business by selling everything at a loss.

Of course, once the competition was eliminated, Walmart stopped selling things at a loss.

Before Steam existed i would even crack games I had legitimate copies of solely because pre-Steam DRM was such an enormous pain in the ass to deal with.

Even today Denuvo is a veritable paradise compared to what DRM used to be like.

this is how we get companies like walmart and amazon.

they roll in, throwing bags of money into a bottomless pit as long as it takes to amass a large customer base and ruin existing competitors. Then they start enshittifying, and everyone wonders where all the competition went.

It’s confusing to you that manufacturing, shipping, and selling physical copies of a game was more expensive than digital distribution?

That is not what is confusing to me.

Digital distribution is the norm and everybody knows you don’t need 30% to make it sustainable.

I'm not sure I buy this. Epic's 12% is the bare minimum just to cover basic infrastructure costs for distributing modern AAA games. It doesn't even include transaction fees, which vary based on which payment method the user selects (whereas Steam and other storefronts eat these as part of their 30% cut).

Simply sustaining your existing platform is also not enough. Where Epic runs a barebones storefront and client with little in the way of useful features beyond "download game and keep it updated", storefronts like GOG and Steam take their actual profit and re-invest it in improving their platform for everyone. Think of all the time and money that goes into making things like Steam Input, Proton, or even GOG themselves fixing up older games for modern PCs.

The fact that it has been 5 years and Epic still hasn't been able to make their 12% cut break even speaks volumes.

the 30% cut is brutal

This part always confuses me. When Steam started allowing non-Valve games on their storefront, 30% was considered a bargain compared to selling your games at retail. In fact, PC versions of games were often $10 cheaper than their console counterparts specifically because distribution and platform fees were lower. It wasn't until MW2 came out that PC prices started reflecting console prices.

Well this is sure to piss off the snowflakes. Grab yer popcorn.

i’m not defending it. literally the first thing i said was that users shouldn’t have to do this.

and it’s not the tailored experiences, i’m talking about the “feature” that puts web results in the start menu search.

all i did was add some nuance to the conversation and you’re crucifying me over it because i didn’t pile on the circlejerk.

I've never had this change reverted in an update.

And it does not take 5 minutes, I can do it in less than 30 seconds. It's a single key in the registry.

I think slurs are way more offensive than swear words.

Swear words are "offensive" arbitrarily. Some people don't like "shit" because it is a more crude way to say "poop". Most swearwords only became this way through classism. They were deemed offensive by the wealthy because they were initially used by the poor; using them was akin to associating yourself with the lesser classes.

Slurs are offensive by design. Their only purpose is to denigrate people based on their immutable personal characteristics (race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)