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tomphonse
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Wow I find the opposite is true. Has there been a single triple aaa game since 2016 or so that has been unapologetically made with a target audience of teenage boys in mind. The way they were in the ps2 and psx era?
Every game that comes out feels like its for guys in their 30s
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Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored. bit.ly/4ucgzK2 #IGNSummerOfGaming
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@magemasher13 Ok so let me get this straight, the most generous platform that takes the least from devs, has no ai, generous sales, fast customer support, good ui, and basically everything any non larping gamer could ask for, isn't good enough? Genuinely trying to understand the logic here
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Steam demands special treatment, to the detriment of every gamer that's not in their parasitic ecosystem. But twenty years ago they offered Half-Life for a dollar so all the PC paupers will put up with anything. Who knew gamers were just like flooring?
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@IAMDORIANGRAE @Rod7PosT @GameOverThirty But you don't have to be about steam customer. You can just buy it on the other platform. You're literally saying steam shouldn't have to compete with the revenue shares of other platforms and then saying that's not anti-competitive
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@tomphonse @Rod7PosT @GameOverThirty Dude it’s not the developers
It’s the publishers
The publishers set the price. So if the publisher agrees to sell something for a dollar on Steam and 50 cents on Epic they’re screwing Steam customers and are being subsidized to sell cheaper elsewhere and it makes Steam loo bad
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There is enough evidence, both from courtroom transcripts, and emails, that Valve WILL actively reach out to a developer / publisher when they are offering a lower price on another storefront. How aggressive they are about it, is up for debate, but they have admitted to doing so themselves.
Their reasoning, as they have explained, is that they don't want your everyday consumer to pay a higher price on the Steam storefront, and then get irritated (with Valve) when they found out the game was available cheaper elsewhere.
So...they don't strictly have a same price policy (as long as it's not a Steam key), but they do actively try to keep the Steam price the same as a discounted price on another storefront.
If we're talking the free / open market, and fair competition, coercion shouldn't be part of that process. It's up for debate how far Valve would actually take it. Some of their emails and comments don't look good when taken at face value.
I don't know if I've drawn up a full opinion on Valve's tactics and positioning, but I'm still of the opinion that we need more evidence of what really goes on behind the scenes.
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@tomphonse @RavenLenoreCh other platforms DO charge 30% ffs yall niggas dont even do a single minute of research
the only platforms that dont take 30% are the microsoft store (xbox still takes 30%) and the epic store
steam takes the INDUSTRY STANDARD
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Trying to frame this as monopolistic when they literally had the option of just listing the same lower price on Steam is crazy lmao
ANYTHING but acknowledge that Steam is an objectively better service. They're so scared to have the same prices because they know people wont leave
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Newly revealed court documents from an ongoing antitrust lawsuit claim that Valve once threatened to remove Rainbow Six Siege from Steam after Ubisoft tried selling the game at a lower price on its own storefront, Uplay. According to the reports, Ubisoft introduced a cheaper “Starter Pack” version of Rainbow Six Siege outside of Steam. Valve allegedly warned Ubisoft that the game could be removed from Steam if the pricing difference wasn’t addressed. Ubisoft changed course, and the game remained on the platform.
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@RavenLenoreCh What if I as a consumer would rather pay 18-30% less for games and forgo having things like forums, trading cards, achievements, linux support etc.
Steam is using their market position to stop competitors from offering such a service
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@tomphonse And no, they can have lower prices if they set it to the same on Steam, so the consumer choice remains the same instead of being influenced by a sales tactic. If people wanna use your platform they will choose it if it's better when prices are equal. It's simple logic
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@RavenLenoreCh Okay so the only way they can have lower prices is if they forgo being on the platform with a >80% marketshare on PC. Something Valve knows is not feasible for most devs. That's a monopolistic practice.
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@tomphonse They can have the lower price on their platform IF it isn't *also* on Steam. Having the same price forces the other platform to actually have to compete on a feature basis instead of just using car salesman tactics
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@RavenLenoreCh Okay if its not worth the lower price why are Valve worried about devs selling at lower prices on other platforms? Why do they have to force devs not to? You arent making any sense
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@tomphonse They can have the same sale price on steam and see which people choose. It's that simple. If the only upside you're willing to offer is a cheaper game but force people onto a worse platform with worse community and functionality, you are not worth the lower price.
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@RavenLenoreCh If they wouldnt why does steam have to strong arm devs into not having different prices? If steam is so good that everyone is willing to pay 18-30% more then why do they need to force devs to match their prices? The pro-consumer thing to do is to let customers and devs decide
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@tomphonse No they wouldn't because I refuse to use other launchers due to their lack of features. Epic literally gives free games away and they are still not doing even remotely well compared to steam because the platform sucks ass and engages in bad practices
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@RavenLenoreCh They have the better service because they force every other platform to have the same price as them. If you could buy games elsewhere for 18-30% cheaper then many would take that over having access to steam features
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@tomphonse And they still have a better service that still nets better sales and marketing on-platform so i literally do not care
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@Rod7PosT @GameOverThirty Why can't steam lower the revenue they take to match other storefronts? They are asking the developer to lower the price whilst taking more money from the developer. So the end result is the developer is just forced to raise the price on other storefronts
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@GameOverThirty una tienda ofrece precio mas bajo que en steam.
valve pide que bajen el precio también en steam para que sus usuarios no paguen extra por ese producto solo por estar en steam.
por algún motivo que valve quiera que sus usuarios no paguen extra por un producto es anticonsumidor.
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@Pirat_Nation It took ten years for youtube to have its first profitable quarter
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The AI Industry Has Reportedly Spent $1.4 Trillion and Still Isn’t Profitable
A website called isaiprofitable.com is tracking the economics of the AI boom to determine if it is profitable, and the answer is no.
As of May 2026, the AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion on model development, data centers, chips, networking, and other AI infrastructure. Over the same period, it has generated about $613 billion in revenue.
The biggest losses belong to the leading companies:
- Amazon: -$291 billion
- Google: -$262 billion
- Microsoft: -$235 billion
- Meta: -$227 billion
- Oracle: -$39 billion
- OpenAI: -$27 billion
- Anthropic: -$26.5 billion
- xAI: -$19.2 billion
Only one company is profitable: Nvidia.
According to the dashboard, Nvidia has generated an estimated $478 billion in AI revenue against $225 billion in AI-related spending, for a profit of roughly $253 billion.
The figures are compiled from public filings, earnings reports, analyst estimates, leaks, and industry reporting. The site’s creator describes the project as a best-effort snapshot rather than a formal audit and updates the numbers monthly.
The estimates also exclude indirect benefits from AI, such as improved search, advertising, and software sales.
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Counterpoint here is that lots of cool things arent currently economically viable to do because they have to have economic value to the npc masses.
So yes its true this was already possible and perhaps theyre only doing it now because its cheap. But that could actually be good.
Fergus Navaratnam-Blair@Fergus_NBlair
The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX. The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.
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People giving Mixtape a 10/10 think Holden Caulfield is profound.
This is the most pretentious, millennial, reddit-pilled, garbage.
If you're claiming "muh nostalgia!!", you peaked in high school.
Sad.
Fake Wizard@RealLifeFakeWiz
I heard this game is incredible! IGN gave it a 10/10! Installing now. Will report back soon!
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@nimlot26 Sometimes they might come on as a producer for some doco about something they care about. But none of them are like "lets make a scifi retelling of Monte Cristo but have it shot in a French New-Wave style but with a budget and production values that make no sense. Idc Im rich af"
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@nimlot26 Our elite have no taste anymore. None of our billionaires have commissioned any cool movies, games or music. They just throw a private party where JayZ performs the same songs that McDonalds workers love. I have no idea why they don't commission films that solely appeal to them.
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I often hear that this happend because it's cheaper to mass produce simple shapes. Which I agree.... But.... why are billionaires not building crazy detailed palaces anymore? They can afford it but still go for minimalist bullshit.
Science girl@sciencegirl
There used to be art in everything
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The same animation will consume GBs of RAM if its implemented in Windows 11.
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old Windows Aero animation
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@catgirlprostate I blame GenAI becoming the default for most people's conception of what AI is
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This is the kinda shit that makes it impossible to be completely anti AI, this is legitimately magic software, replacing menial work nobody wants to do
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Green screen keying, solved at the pixel level. Corridor's neural keyer unmixes edges into true foreground color and linear alpha, EXR out.
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