Fools are easily parted from their money

Apparently Intel is replacing Gelsinger because his plan to turn the company’s fortunes around are taking too long. My guess is the new CEO will likely sell off major parts of the company and I doubt the dGPU division will be kept

Epic refuses to enable the Linux support for EAC on Fortnite despite being super easy, and specifically removed Linux support for Rocket League.

A Steam monopoly is bad, but Epic are not the solution to that.

Seconded. I’d prefer to see GOG and Itch.io as the big competitors to Steam

Yep. I loved Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, and was excielted to hear they made a sequel. The I learned it’s and EGS exclusive. They can go get bent, not buying from them anymore

No, people who back monopolistic, anti-consumer companies like EGS want a monopoly.

If you actually look, nobody ever complains about GOG or Itch.io. That’s because they don’t pull anticompetitive bullshit like the paid exclusives that EGS relies on

And don’t forget that they refuse to take credit card (ie not having a shopping cart in this example) for 2 fucking years

The devs and publishers who sign those deals are the ones you should be angry at

And that’s why I don’t buy games from those devs and publishers

That 30% is standard for most storefronts. Just look at Google Play and Apple’s App Store.

If you’re that put off by 30% cuts then don’t look into retail stores because their markups make that look like chump change.

It’s important to remember that it’s not only buyers, but developers that use Steam. Steam is currently involved in a lawsuit with developers.

Actually, it’s generally publishers, not developers that end up paying the 30% cut. For most games the developer gets paid upfront by the publisher, and the publisher pockets the difference between development costs and sales. I’d also like to point out that prices between EGS and Steam are generally the same, so instead of getting lower priced games as promised, the publishers are just pocketing the larger profits.

Repeat Tim Swiney’s fake talking points all you want, the fact of the matter is that Valve isn’t behaving like a monopoly, even if they command a huge portion of the market. The reason they’re so big in the first place is specifically because they’re very pro-consumer

Which Blizzard hasn’t done

But what about those days were you’re really in the mood for a particular video from 3 years back?

I do a lot of coding and I’m in a similar boat. My co-worker and I can’t really come up with a use case due to our particular work loads

On top of that, I find it an excellent therapist.

To be honest, I find this rather concerning. Please reach out to the actual people in your life. Especially since it’s the holiday season.

While this sucks, thankfully for me I didn’t want to play those games to begin with