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by SXX 3y ago
I am co-founder of game studio and I have lots of friends in gamedev too. I know people who sold under 100 copies of their game on Steam and got 10,000 keys for sales elsewhere no problem. I never gonna to defend Valve 30% cut since it is t
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by SXX 3y ago
Valve dont actually demand of developers to run the same discounts everywhere at the same time. You can still for instance sell game cheaper on other store, but eventually you have to run the same discount on Steam.
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by SXX 3y ago
If you selling Steam keys you paying Valve nothing for these sales. Keys are free and 100% profit going to you.
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by SXX 3y ago
Actually it was already done by sentdex with GAN Theft Auto: https://youtu.be/udPY5rQVoW0 To an extent... PS: Video is 2 years old, but still really impressive.
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by SXX 3y ago
It's already posted to Unstable Diffusion discord so soon we'll know. After all fine-tuning wouldn't take that long.
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by SXX 3y ago
It doesn't have to be enforceable. This licensing model works exactly the same as Microsoft Windows licensing or WinRAR licensing. Lots and lots of people have pirated Windows or just buy some cheap keys off Ebay, but no one of them in
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by SXX 3y ago
Because you want your system installer or LiveUSBs to work without running GPU in VGA mode at 640×480. Also you get this 5% performance when GPU is clocked at 10% power draw.
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by SXX 3y ago
It was ~5% because there was no reclocking whatsoever without GSP support. Nouveau was never most performant driver, but developers still been able to achieve something like 50-80% performance on 6xx 7xx series cards before Nvidia started t
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by SXX 3y ago
Microsoft only own minor share of their "for profit" subsidiary. The way OpenAI structured it's would be basically impossible for Microsoft to increase their 49% share without Non-profit board approval. Most likely their shar
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by SXX 3y ago
Just hope this will bring more "Open" into "AI.com"
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by SXX 3y ago
Microsoft got access to their IP and capitalized on it. Likely it's already brought them more than $10B they paid.
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by SXX 3y ago
As one of authors of Heroes III one I could say Xash3D is amazing project worth to check for Source 1 game fans. Valve support for their old games is outstanding and they all have native support, great performance, constant updates. It&#x27
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by SXX 3y ago
Shadowbanning certainly exists on all social platforms. Light version of it is how Facebook sells ad services - no one following your page sees content unless you pay.
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by SXX 3y ago
It was a news in February 2023, but Steam had this as part of their ToS for decade or more. Basically Valve want you to run the same discounts on Steam as you run on other stores. AFAIK it's perfectly fine to temporary run something li
825.
by SXX 3y ago
Fortunately in case of Steam Deck it's possible to replace screen in case this become a problem in a couple of years and new parts wont cost like a new device.
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by SXX 3y ago
It is public knowledge that fee drops to 25% after $10,000,000 and down to 20% after $50,000,000 in game gross revenue.
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by SXX 3y ago
Valve also dont sell $450 device for £450...
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by SXX 3y ago
No. Valve was never against legit developers using their infrastructure for games sold elsewhere even if Valve dont get any cut. If you have game that sold 1000 copies on Steam you can still generate 10,000 keys for selling elsewhere. What
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by SXX 3y ago
That's actually a great news. At least some legal barrier is better than none.
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by SXX 3y ago
Nothing wrong with TLS. It's just funny how author suggests that someone actually cared about Snowden revelations. It's like "We were worried about mass surveillance after Snowden so decided to host everything directly on FBI
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by SXX 3y ago
These are facts: 1. CloudFlare and clouds obliged to follow US law. 2. Gag orders exist. It doesn't matter if they actively used for mass surveillance or not. This "encryption" dont protect anything from US government or it&#
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by SXX 3y ago
Mostly good article, but this made me laugh: > In response to the revelations of government mass surveillance by Edward Snowden, the share of encrypted web traffic jumped from less than half to 95%. Seriously? In last 10 years sit
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by SXX 3y ago
It's not like this is unique to AAA. Unless gamedev is your hobby and not full-time job you simply have no choice other than ship game and try to fix it. Any small indie studio have to deal with it.
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by SXX 3y ago
I bought M1 Air 256GB with 16GB RAM on release for light web development and professional 2D gamedev on Unity. Still using it till now and it's really really durable hardware and I've been usign it daily for 3+ years. With so litt
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by SXX 3y ago
It's exactly what Google want you to do. They made majority verbs prohibitevely expensive premium domains to take their cut.
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by SXX 3y ago
Sadly phish.ing is over $1000 / year.
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by SXX 3y ago
Usually clean room mean those writing the code and people who decompiling are different people. So code is written against specification. So no it's unlikely to actually be fully clean room project, but written from scratch.
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by SXX 3y ago
> .me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me
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by SXX 3y ago
Microsoft still releases majority of games for Windows. Sony buying them would be much larger problem.
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by SXX 3y ago
I guess as "proud" owner of Russian passport I have all rights to say that.

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