Why the heck is everything stripped to them
You need some CDN to hide your server IP from DDOS. Cloudflare is the only free one. AWS and Azure are the big ones with many additional services and seemed pretty reliable. So here’s 95% of the Internet probably.
You are right. Thank you for replying.
world where every household has rechargeable AA batteries
What do you need AA batteries for? And why do you think the whole world also does?
Exclusives don’t benefit anyone.
just running great on any distribution
Just running great on some Bob’s distribution for which Bob made sure no game will ever run on it…
He will likely introduce them to gambling anyway.
Any data to back that claim? I thought most of their income is from Steam and games(including those with pushing gambling on children) is a very small share.
Wonder how long it could run standalone on decent fps.
I think it says that pressure triggers can be mapped as buttons too.
I think malicious is the correct word for it.
Well they are being criticized for this in every relevant thread so I wonder if there’s something else for your critical thinking claim.
What criticism of Valve do you have?
Well they are pretty open on that you should not use it.
MS still depends on sales of licenses
It’s not 2014, their business was selling cloud Linux and opensource since 2018 if I remember correctly.
You are not their customer, you are their product.
Very few games require malware. They are not adding this requirement now, it was already there. American company requiring you to install malware to use their products is no better than a Saudi company. So who will be affected by this? A few dudes who pretend they like freedom but still install malware game on a malware os?
I don’t think it was their plan to make testicles things, game development is not one process but many separate processes tied together. So while several hundreds people were working on important stuff one dude could have finished their tasks and had nothing to do, so they thought why not do fun stuff quickly.
You don’t even need to pay them, this service is free.