DebatableRaccoon

Then keep enjoying your irrelevance. In the meantime, I want Sony games to keep getting ported so I’m going to throw in my 2 cents in the hopes that something/someone somewhere is bothering to gauge interest and hope they pay attention to the fact that any salesperson who can’t read and adjust to their market isn’t a very good salesperson.

A perfectly valid use of the FBI’s time…

I miss being treated like an adult and being able to view the game pages I’m easily old enough to view. Steam is slowly dying for me now.

I can still view the page for 18+ games with gratuitous violence but the moment there’s risk of seeing something everyone’s got, that’s somehow a step too far. Fucking conservative pearl-clutchers. Fuck OSA and fuck Steam for implementing such a stupid verification method.

It’s not irrelevant if their sales figures aren’t where they want them to be, it proves they’re wrong about something one way or another.

True but unless I’m missing something, they’ve only got numbers for old games because they wait so long. There’s obviously going to be much less interest in paying full price for a game that came out years ago. They’re pricing themselves out of the market due to wanting to enforce an archaic concept such as platform exclusivity.

Some, yes, but I’ve got a couple for what I’d expect to pay on Steam sale

Oh god, I hope this isn’t the end of the ports. I was looking forward to playing Ghost of Yotei in like 4 years. Maybe they should look into the gap between releases for why PC ports presumably aren’t selling well…

AMD once again showing more of a pro-consumer stance than Nvidia. Good on them.

That’s… a bold stance

I find it much harder to put stock in these kinds of statements after GOG dropped the ball on their support for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Actions speak louder than words

Those looking to censor and the ignorant letting it happen.

The lack of forethought when casually allowing broad censorship.

PS: I’m really surprised by the amount of downvotes given the platform we’re on so I have to assume my meaning wasn’t as clear as I first thought.

Ignorance is bliss on both sides of that foil-wrapped turd coin.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think anyone ever considered it was a dev decision. Every comment I saw on the matter was cursing Paradox specifically.

“CEO veers off-topic into existential crisis.” Cool but what about some promise of people actually owning their games, Randy?

I wasn’t on board until this statement but this is exactly why I fell off any amount of competitive games very quickly.

If you’re smart enough to know about MAS, I hope you’re smart enough to have not “upgraded” to 11

I’d argue it’s worth knowing what you risk losing from your device in the name of sideloading software so it’s not irrelevant to point out your phone might not be a phone by the end of the procedure.

Just be mindful of what ROM you’re putting on your device. That ROM can still have access to everything you have on there so it should be a source you trust.

I can’t say anything for the Reddit part of what you said but I agree with Google’s unethical datamining. It’s no secret what Google has been doing. I remember when the tinfoil-hat-wearers were warning people about those nifty little Google speakers people were generously inviting into their homes, telling them to watch what they were saying in the general vicinity of the speakers, that Google could be using them to listen to every conversation. The naysayers said “They wouldn’t do that, that’d be illegal. The speaker only listens when I say ‘Hey Google’ and they wouldn’t be saving what I say anyway!”. Lo and behold, it finally got leaked that was wrong, that the speakers were listening 24/7 and Google was keeping everything. I could be wrong but I recall something going around that Google even admitted they were keeping the recordings. Suddenly the conversation died down, there was no lawsuit for espionage or any such thing and the naysayers suddenly converted to “I’ve got nothing to hide, I don’t care if I’m being recorded”. Ignorance remains forever blissful, it would seem.

Quick note for the pedantic: No, it’s not just Google. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are doing it too. If there’s a microphone in your house, be mindful of what you’re saying around it; you never know how an innocuous conversation might be used against you.