I feel Duke, Torgue, and Sal would make for a dialogue that is as equally epic as it is brain rotting.

Gotta love the Streisand effect.

Capitalism at its finest.

Literally is, sorry you are so confused about the subject.

Lol. I am not a libertarian, I am anarchist. Learn the difference.

Also, since you want to insult my intelligence, go fuck yourself you pompous, corporate shilling twat.

Lol you have no clue what you’re talking about bud.

Steam doesn’t force any of the games sold on its storefront to be exclusive to their store. Developers are completely within their power to publish their games to other marketplaces and, in fact, many titles are readily available elsewhere, such as GOG, Humble Bundle, Jolt, itch.io, Epic, and soon even Discord will have its own storefront. They are simply a marketplace; they don’t have a monopoly just because they are the most popular marketplace. Not their fault developers don’t like the non-DRM pushing spaces, which is the only complaint I have with Steam.

Meanwhile, you’re comparing that to Nintendo which develops games in-house and deliberately keeps them exclusive to their proprietary consoles. Last I checked, I can’t buy the new Mario Kart or Donkey Kong on my PS5 or PC.

The name isn’t deceptive. It is deliberate.

Yes, it is against Trump, but the reason is because Trump is behaving like a modern day, wannabe King/dictator.

The “right wing” literally is the party of “preserving the norms and authority structures that gave power to the monarchy”.

“Licking boots” is a foundational tenant of right-wing ideology.

We don’t need the causal homophobic insults. That’s their weapon, not ours.

There is nothing insulting about licking dicks if that’s someone’s thing.

Bare minimum should be assault & battery with a deadly weapon.

If they start any nefarious monetization practices, absolutely pull mods. Until then though, I agree. No reason to pull ones that are already there, but definitely be prudent and start casting a wider net.

You don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers

“Companies owned by the workers” is communism. That’s literally what is meant by “shared ownership of the means of production”.

The “means of production” is all the shit that companies own, such as the land, machines, buildings, raw materials, etc…

Let me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data.

It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.

Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.

Unfortunately, I think this will be likely because Nexus has almost entirely cornered the market on mods. It is the place people get their mods from if not the Steam Workshop.

People would have to actually abandon the convenience and go back to scrolling a bunch of games specific forums for their mods. I don’t see that happening unfortunately and I’m pretty sure the executives at the new company know this. It’s a common marketing tactic to exploit the sunk cost fallacy.

There are plenty, they just aren’t as big or as well designed because they are just small forums, and most are usually game specific.

Nexus was unique in that it was a hub for the modding community, made specifically because people didn’t want to have to browse hundreds of different forums to get their mods that may or may not be compatible with each other. It was a nice convenience while it lasted.

Welp, abandon ship.

I’m just sad they won’t be continuing with games similar to The Lost Crown. 2D PoP games are peak.

I have, but only fighting games because that first month of online play is heaven when there is no meta established and no one has muscle memory yet.

But yea, fuck Gearbox, I uninstalled every Borderlands Game after the new changes to EULA. Fuck them having kernal access.

https://lemmy.world/comment/17707055

Internally, yea, but I was speaking more towards the decline of their products, not the treatment of staff, that was being discussed in the top comment.