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by SXX 10mo ago
Lots and lots of people work for much less or for free on whatever they like. Problem is that doing "boring" parts of open source project maintenance is not very exciting for many top tier developers so it should pay at least comp
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by SXX 10mo ago
I think companies like Google dont even try like they are "Too Big to be Regulated". Facebook is much worse because everyghing on there is user gemerated. Any small company would be just crushed by governments if they would have s
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by SXX 10mo ago
Yet Google cant remove porn bots with 99% similar usernames or avatars.
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by SXX 10mo ago
To build things you also need a lot of people with education, know how and experience. You cant just bring low-wage workforce and expect to compete with China. Let alone that to provide same quality of living to average chinese worker as th
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by SXX 10mo ago
This just doesnt work. The days when the same line producing cars can be turned into production of tanks has long been gone. Basically the same manufacruting line cant be even used to build cars on different platform than intended. Example:
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by SXX 10mo ago
Amount of refunds is usually pretty high for all less popular games. A lot of people tend to use refunds as demo. I doubt its that high for Stardew Valley though. Simply because popular games are sold via network effect and people ususlly k
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by SXX 10mo ago
There are regional pricing and sales. Good chunk of those 30 millions sold way below US price. He certainly earned what you say though.
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by SXX 10mo ago
> Still somewhere between 10 and 25%, though. This is basically almost public information: 25% cut on earnings between $10 million and $50 million. Yet most likely very big share of sales is well below $10 let alone $15 due to sales and
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by SXX 10mo ago
HSBC is also one of few apps that dont let you use it with iPhone Mirroring.
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by SXX 10mo ago
This was only possible because CDPR still had immense amounts of cash flow from both witcher 3 and from CP2077 pre-orders.
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by SXX 10mo ago
Yet those niche nolife hardcore fans is exactly what makes or breaks games. If 10,000 unhappy hardcore fans will go around pouring shit on your game and company then you likely never get 1,000,000 players who could've potentially liked
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by SXX 10mo ago
This. As game developer this is a huge problem since outside of top 1% industry is shit poor and platforms squeeze it badly. Unfortunely needs of game developers and customers are not exactly align. Valve is good steward of their outsized m
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by SXX 10mo ago
IMO Cyberpunk is fundamentally not the game their marketing promissed. They marketed it as actually non-linear RPG and beyond very beginning of the game they just could't deliver on it. After tons of patches and DLCs its just became a
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by SXX 10mo ago
Not gonna protect EA the company here, but lots and lots of other games also flop on release because money.
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by SXX 10mo ago
Valve started to invest in Linux and open source 10 years before releasing Steam Deck. They started hiring OSS developers back in 2012 and Deck released in 2022: https://www.phoronix.com/review/valve_linux_dampfnudeln
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by SXX 10mo ago
Valve and Steam dont force DRM on anyone either. Downloader client is ofc DRM in itself, but a lot of games run just fine without Steamworks.
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by SXX 10mo ago
It was HITMAN released on GOG with always online DRM and removed after backlash. They obviously refunded to everyone. https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_... https://www.gog.com&
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by SXX 10mo ago
Studious dont abandon failed releases because they are evil. Its just releases fail because they run out of money so there just nothing to burn to save them. CDPR just was lucky enough to make enough money of failed release to fix it. Most
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by SXX 10mo ago
At least with Valve we can hope its gonna be okay for 4 reasons: 1. Even though Gabe is formally CEO he from his own words was barelly controllibg company for years. He spend more time on his other projects. 2. Flat structure and and a smal
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by SXX 10mo ago
Low end gaming ia 2d indie titles and they now run on toasters. All the popular mass matket games work on iGPU: fortnite, roblox, mmos, arena shooters, battlen royales. Good chunk of cross platform console titles also work just fine. You ca
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by SXX 10mo ago
No dedicated GPU is certainly unrelated to whatever been happening for last two years. It's just in last 5 years integrated GPUs become good enough even for mid-tier gaming let alone running browser and hw accel in few work apps. And e
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by SXX 10mo ago
It's no different than any other VC funded company before GenAI. They all sold $100 bills with discount before either capturing market or disappear.
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by SXX 10mo ago
They dont need to stay. They just need you as a user long enough to sell off to some dumb investor or another company that will find dumb investors.
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by SXX 10mo ago
Yes, but it wont work for sharing mobile internet because VPN doee not apply to tethering unless you have root. On Android there is also WiFi direct, but it's not very reliable and require proxy / not work for everything.
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by SXX 10mo ago
That is harmless 99.9% of the time until you get swatted. Takes a one phone call in the US to get you at gun point of a very trigger happy people.
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by SXX 10mo ago
You dont even need anyone evil . Might be just dumb and misinformed by AI news slop that people of your kind are evil, dangerous, etc. Whoever you are.
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by SXX 10mo ago
The problem with no anonimity is that not all people are rational even if they're dont have shizophrenia or something worse. You can be a small guy doing your small thing and sharing it online. Unfortunately you never know when and why
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by SXX 10mo ago
How keys are used explained in other answers already. Number of keys you can request would obviously depend on how successful is your hame on Steam. E.g I doubt Valve would generate 100,000 keys for a game with zero sales, but likely under
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by SXX 10mo ago
Valve get no fees from non-Steam key sales and developers can really request any reasonable amount of keys so tens and hundreds of thousands. It make a lot of sense to discount all these reviews to avoid abuse. A lot of developers would abu
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by SXX 11mo ago
Why do you believe some civil opposition leader will end up im power after foreign military intervention? Usually people who end up in power are ones best at shooting others invluding shooting civil politicians.

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