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by beerlord 8y ago
Don't forget that Epic has built-in 5% affiliate commissions, which they will cover for the first 24 months. This whole thing will get huge advertising and popular support, developers will just need to take advantage of it. I'm su
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by beerlord 8y ago
The question will be: how will developers respond to this lower commission? Will it result in cheaper games for the end user? Personally I'm being conservative, that the Epic Store will lack of a lot of features upfront and need a high
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by beerlord 8y ago
If Valve are going to drop their commissions to compete with Epic, they will pull in third-party key sales. Those third-party stores and bundles will die off. Valve really needed a kick in the pants though. Their store is thoroughly out of
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by beerlord 8y ago
Fantastic news, long hoped for. I think the following features are key: - Unobtrusive DRM - Anticheat - Player profile - Item store/marketplace - Cloud save - Basic matchmaking for multiplayer (linked to profile) - Mod workshop - Asset
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Announcing the Epic Games Store(unrealengine.com)
1 points by beerlord 8y ago|1 comments
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by beerlord 8y ago
All of these games would still have been made with a $500 Steam Direct fee. In fact they would receive more attention and visibility because of it.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Could you list out those games please?
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by beerlord 8y ago
You don't. Sorry to say it, but there is no audience for those kind of games. It just doesn't sell itself from the screenshots. There needs to be a higher Steam Direct fee to gatekeep out products which are non-commercial. Its muc
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by beerlord 8y ago
The problem is that Steam is getting so filled with games (often of poor quality) that there simply isn't enough 'visibility' to go around. The platform cannot handle the volume of games being added. The question is: what is
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by beerlord 8y ago
Plus transporting about 80kg of human, scooter and baggage is much less weight than human, car and baggage. It would be interesting to calculate the MPG of these, including the overnight recharging and repositioning done inside a van.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Does Madrid have e-scooter rental yet? I would imagine that would be a great accompaniment to this change.
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Madrid’s ban on polluting vehicles cuts traffic by 32 percent in some areas(theverge.com)
2 points by beerlord 8y ago|1 comments
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Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us(nytimes.com)
2 points by beerlord 8y ago|0 comments
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by beerlord 8y ago
4G delivers speeds that are fast enough for anything you can do on a phone. The 'killer feature' of 5G would need to be significantly increased spectral efficiency, to allow Telcos to offer higher data caps, and to reduce the impa
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by beerlord 8y ago
An advantage the Gaming Industry holds is that it is completely global. The salaries for game artists and programmers in Eastern Europe are actually quite high, by local standards. And when you consider the very low cost of living in those
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by beerlord 8y ago
Valve have shown that they will do nothing unless their hand is forced. Your best bet is an Epic Store, which will hopefully charge commissions of 8-12%. https://www.neogaf.com/threads/tim-sweeney-not-sure-why-stea...
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by beerlord 8y ago
See for yourself: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#salary > The little guys can go to itch.io, which charges as low as 0% commission. They may even have more visibility on there than on Steam, gi
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by beerlord 8y ago
That is unfortunately not correct. A large amount of advertising and PR is very necessary to receive any attention for a launch on Steam. Unfortunately a mere 'launch' on Steam has been devalued, by Valve allowing anyone with $100
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by beerlord 8y ago
I feel uncomfortable that smaller developers will be less profitable because they... don't have as much negotiating power? Valve is being very Walmart-esque with this move. Already game developers are the lowest paid workers in the IT
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Intel Exec Discloses Discrete GPU Details and Strategy(hothardware.com)
2 points by beerlord 8y ago|0 comments
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Impact of Climate Change on GDP per Capita by Country (2015)(web.stanford.edu)
2 points by beerlord 8y ago|0 comments
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by beerlord 8y ago
Marketplaces like Apple (and Steam) open themselves up to almost any content in a deliberate attempt to assuage concerns about their monopoly position and practices. Which is unfortunate for developers, since it means they must stand out fr
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Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected with ADHD(arstechnica.com)
5 points by beerlord 8y ago|0 comments
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by beerlord 8y ago
Because there is an immense amount of technical and marketing support from Console makers, who provide the core hardware to the masses below-cost (or with very low margins). To get onto Consoles in the first place, your product needs to be
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by beerlord 8y ago
How does the average IQ compare in India vs China? China has been running a eugenics program for 30 years, starting with the One Child Policy to discourage rural peasants from having children, to encouraging urbanisation and university educ
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by beerlord 8y ago
I want to buy a new iPhone, but I refuse to buy a phone that cannot use the same headphones as I use on my laptop. Apple either need to bring back the headphone jack, or adopt USB-C. Until then I'll continue to use my iPhone 6S.
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by beerlord 8y ago
I think bikes will become a niche sports product, replaced by E-Scooters for basic transportation around town, and autonomous cars/minibuses for anything longer.
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by beerlord 8y ago
By all accounts RTX delivers negligible visual improvement for games, for a huge performance hit. The technology is a lot more interesting in professional 3D modelling where light baking and rendering can be done much faster.
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by beerlord 8y ago
I hate to say it, but Africa was better off under European colonial rule. Yes, there were obscene atrocities. But atrocities seem to have been committed by every group of humans at some point in time. Instead, the colonialists would take th
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by beerlord 8y ago
Nvidia is shooting itself in the foot with their Gsync strategy. They are relying on an extra $200 (for the Gsync module) from what - 1% of their customer base? Instead of adopting the open standards (adaptive sync or HDMI 2.1 VRR) and addi

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