True. But I’m sure someone good at manipulation could get him to do shit without him being fully aware of who he’s working for

I mean he’s probably pretty easy to manipulate if you are powerful and can make him feel important

Of course they didn’t leave any documentation because management said that writing it was a waste of time

I mean, he was partnered with Disney before “the bridge incident” too…

Because their owners are becoming the new and improved oil barons and want to be included in their cool boys club ?

I love Valve for a lot of things but I’ll never forget that they spearheaded some of the most predatory microtransactions in the industry (loot boxes and battle passes) and were happy to help Bethesda try to sell mods until players raised a huge stink.

Nice sundog !

Tarkov

I fail to see how a Steam’s quasi monopoly should affect game engines sales. Or is that about Fortnite ? Because I have an easy answer right there : its main demographics are kids who are either locked to their console’s ecosystem, or on the off chance that they’re playing on PC, they likely don’t have 587 unplayed games in their steam library, so they couldn’t care less that the game all their friends play is on EGS.
That is basically the strategy with all the free games imo. Trying to reproduce what steam did (through big sales and some very alluring giveaways during the first ones, e.g literally get all current and future Steam games for free, or the top 10 games on your wishlist, etc) on these kids, so they stay on that store.

I think PC gamers’ boner for Steam is extremely unhealthy and has been slowly killing the only good storefront for a while (GOG) and will blow up in our faces when (not if) Gabe ends up being replaced by some suit who only cares about money.

Epic probably bankrolled a significant chunk of development to get that deal. Whether accepting the deal was a bad move or not is really hard to say

Western Digital used to be great. Don’t know if they still are. I never had an issue with any of my HDDs from them (I only ever bought the high end stuff though)

Yeah I like meat but that is a stupid argument unless you hunt all your meals yourself.

Her insta says “entrepreneur”. Which is… interesting, given that the vast majority of civil servants are forbidden from exercising any other profession in France.

I usually think that gamers are by and large not critical enough when it comes to valve, but surely if they wanted to make a closed off ecosystem they wouldn’t have based it on Linux and open sourced it

Big “if” these days

Yeah. But now they don’t have any advantages over other cafés. Except the fact that their coffees basically double as a rich snack I guess.