The weird hate Swift gets both here and on Reddit is rather confusing.

Until you remember that she’s a woman and the user base of these platforms are predominantly 30 year old tech obsessed males.

Sum up Lemmy with one comment

To me Disco Elysium was the next example of the “Art Game”.

The game people bring up when discussing Game as Art, without actually explaining what makes it art.

“which games”

The multitude of incest games that litter Steam’s new releases?

The ICO trilogy

G*mers are entitled pieces of shit.

Linux users are arrogant hipster assholes.

It’s a perfect storm for creating just the worst people ever. And that’s before we add the weird belittlement open source devs get.

Shame about all the pentagons there.

The “which one” was in reference to the original comment. Which was about Epic.

So not what that word means.

Words can have multiple meanings in different contexts.

Dictionaries generally (because each one is going to have a slightly different definition) define it as having complete control over a market.

Whereas a lot of the monopoly laws and departments define it as having over a certain percentage of the market share, even if it isn’t 100%

I was listing all the bad things Steam does and never mentioned Epic. That’s on you projecting so much.

Monopolies are defined by having a large enough market share, even if that ain’t the dictionary definitions you Steamboys cling so tightly too.

Aww, Dude. You got Steam Copium hocked into your veins.

G*mers aren’t known for being smart enough to read.

You are trying so hard to twist words to avoid saying “Paid mods” and “Paid beta access”

No, you were literally saying Epic was better than Steam

Point to where I said that.

paid exclusives

The same thing Steam did to secure its monopoly.

You are literally saying that the Epic store doing the same scummy things as Steam, makes it worse than Steam.

This is why gaming is in the shape it’s in.

If they killed competition they did a terrible job as there is more now then ever

There were so many more platforms, now lost to time from G*mer who never knew any different and think 4 is a lot. IGN even had one.

Loot boxes came from MMOs

https://www.vg247.com/the-harsh-history-of-gaming-microtransactions-from-horse-armor-to-loot-boxes

but the first shot at them on the Western side of things was Valve’s Team Fortress 2. In June 2011, Valve transitioned the game to a free-to-play business model after the launch of the Mann-conomy update in 2010, which introduced crates and item trading. MMOs that fell on hard times, like Star Trek Online and Lords of the Rings Online, switched to the model when they went free-to-play as well.

Sell now fix later, EA and Ubisoft.

Steam early access, and greenlight.

That’s why I don’t put the /s there. Always draws out the Stockholmed masses.

Imagine being so Stockholmed that you miss the point that bad.

Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000’s?

Which one popularised micro transactions?

Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?

Which one popularised the current “Sell now, fix later” model

Which one bricks older titles because of it’s DRM requirements

(The answer is Steam btw, I know I’ll need to spell it out for G*mers)

No. Obviously. I know G*mers aren’t smart but I’m clearly talking about Steam.

G*mers when you don’t use their monopolistic service: 😡