AwesomeLowlander

Love the ad hominems, do keep them coming 🙄

folks like you who think they’re a serious competitor

Yeah that’s exactly what my bashing of their pathetic excuse at a storefront was implying.

tens of billions of dollars, like uber did

You’re comparing the cost of building a simple software platform (and face it, Steam isn’t THAT complicated to replicate from a technical perspective) to a company hiring tens of millions of people worldwide for billions of man hours and hardware depreciation. Your estimates are so unrealistic it’s hilarious.

Find me another alternative that isn’t riding on the coattails of pre-existing billions in revenue.

Why would I? I’m not making any claims myself, merely pointing out the ridiculousness of yours.

It’s mostly another NIMBY neighborhood getting their knickers in a twist because the facility will be used for nuclear research. That’s the main point they’re taking exception to.

There’s no good competitors because the money isn’t there to build one. […] Would take tens of billions of dollars today to get in there on top of having near feature parity.

This is ridiculous bullshit. Epic had shitloads of money, they just couldn’t find their ass with both hands. It took them years to implement a freaking shopping cart.

Who walks around the house with their shoes on?

Have not been able to find any really tasty organic small repair engines around me, you happen to have a rec?

I sincerely doubt that even if another launcher did everything Steam does, it would rival it. People already use Steam.

At that point, you can start grabbing business from steam via promotions and such. You don’t need to rival or outgrow Steam to break into the market, you just need a bit of the market.

And that’s assuming they get to this point, ignoring that Steam had decades to get there. It used to be ass.

It’s not even that other launchers have less features than Steam. It’s just that other than GoG, which has a very limited catalog and no regional pricing, there is not a single store that is not actively anti-consumer to a hilarious extent.

Non-drm steam games can actually just be copied around like you would copy the installer

Epic can’t break into the market because of their own shitty launcher, not because of anything Steam has done to lock down the competition.

Now imagine how hard it’d be for a smaller player.

Not very hard, if they were willing to create a decent launcher and engage in sustainable business practices (and regional pricing).

Given that video is the format with generally the lowest useful information transmission rate, I think you’ve got that the other way around.

Jeez, how does a sim game like this take over a decade in dev?

Doesn’t matter without an anchor point

(For the sake of this discussion, we’re talking spoilers in general, not whether a 5 year old game should be considered spoilerable)

Wait, so your solution to spoilers, is to tell everybody everywhere to stop having auto loaded images in their feed? Instead of, you know, having the OP spoiler tag their content? Wow.

I’m merely pointing out the flaw in what you said. No need to bring up the other arguments when I wasn’t part of them.

not click links clearly marked

Most users are going to see the image directly without clicking anything.

I have a question (an honest one, not implying anything). Given that most games work perfectly on Proton, why does a Linux port excite you?

In addition to what the other person said, it’s not American. It’s pretty universal college / university numbering

Parent is saying self driving cars have had a stellar record up until now.

Taliban: Don’t worry, we’ll make sure our women’s rights are maintained

Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value

You say that as if publicly traded firms do