I recommend hosting yourself to see exactly what “admins” have to go through.

Should be Lemmy over piefed.

Thanks for pointing this out.

This “sign up to view” nonsense needs to end. Whoever suggested it should be tarred and feathered.

Pretty sure this is paid propaganda.

I’m glad I stopped arguing with morons.

Good luck in life.

Well that’s stupid. If Steam charged less, the price of games wouldn’t change.

Developers and publishers would just pocket the difference.

Stupid people do.

Valve isn’t forcing anyone to use their platform.

If Steam’s terms aren’t satisfactory for developers, then they don’t have to use Steam.

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Epic would charge Steam’s fees if they had Steam’s marketshare.

Everyone thinking they care about creators or customers is a fucking moron.

Yeah, Charlie Kaufman is actually the one who mentioned AI being able to take the place of hollywood writers because they’re all so shit and fans have no standards.

https://consequence.net/2023/08/charlie-kaufman-ai-garbage-sag-aftra-strike/

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I thought it was Stop Killing Games.

AI can already write scripts on par with or better than most of what hollywood shits out.

Five Nights at Freddy’s, Minecraft, Roblox, Repo, Lethal Company, all look and play like they were made by AI. It won’t be long until users genuinely can’t tell the difference.

This is mostly due to the fact that audiences have no standards for the media that they consume.

It’s more nuanced than that.

It’s not, though. If people actually want to play your game, then Steam isn’t going to get in the way.

Look at MMOs. Look at fortnite. Minecraft. Roblox. Those games can succeed without Steam because people want to play them.

If a game can’t succeed without being on Steam, then Steam isn’t the problem.

Why are we defending a system where the fucking checkout system is valued as much as the people making the games?

You’re asking the wrong question here. You should be asking why you’re defending the developers who just want to make more money and don’t care about how it may impact the experience for their customers.

Gabe isn’t your friend and neither are the whiny/greedy developers.

You can buy a controller for your phone and have a more powerful emulation device without spending as much money.

alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.

As always, these moves are being perpetuated by scumbags who just want to make more money without putting in any additional effort.

If Steam is worth releasing a game on in the eyes of the developers, then they have to pay the price to do it. If it’s not worth the price, then they are under no obligation at all to release their game on Steam.

Most games on Steam fail to gain any traction. If your game fails, it’s not because it isn’t on Steam; it’s because it’s a pile of shit and you’re not special because you made something.

The distro shouldn’t matter too much, but the desktop environment will.

I recommend using KDE if you want something similar to Windows, and GNOME if you want something similar to macOS.

Using a GUI also isn’t really dependent on the DE either for most programs. It’s dependent on whether or not a GUI for it exists in the first place.