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Across Modern & Classic, 2026 in World of Warcraft is shaping up to be an amazing year!
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@TimSweeneyEpic @mich___l With all respect but you know people dislike your platform for many different reasons.
At least Valve actively tries to improve the user experience.
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@mich___l Car makers provide services too.
That doesn’t mean they get to dictate what you do with the car after you’ve bought it.
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Steam’s rules do explicitly prohibit games from steering players to competing purchase methods, forcing everyone to pay 30% to Valve.
Apple and Google did the same until the court explicitly found this practice to be unlawful. Now they don’t!
Ryan Fleury@rfleury
If Valve’s 30% transaction fee is so outrageous (it’s not), then others can simply provide alternatives and charge less. If players still don’t want those alternatives, it’s for a reason: the higher prices they see are worthwhile for the various services involved. So, the alternatives need to also compete on quality. That isn’t an “unlawful monopoly”, that is a competitive service provided at an acceptable rate for developers and players alike. A competitor can undercut that price, but they have to actually do a good job providing an alternative. It is completely absurd to involve the government to punish Valve.
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@dafaulty @gabefollower @TimSweeneyEpic @Shockbroker Yes, after the massive success that was Control they surely needed the Epic Games money to develop Alan Wake 2.
Cmon man.
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@gabefollower @TimSweeneyEpic @Shockbroker lol gabe you’re a smart person and out of every steam defender you should get this, also keep in mind AW2 unfortunately wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for epic
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@Tyler_McV I get the selling point is the small for factor but at a certain point you'd be better to spend the money on a desktop rig.
I think 700-800 is fine however.
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Is $800 too much for the Steam Machine?
What price, knowing everything we do now, is the highest possible price you'd pay?
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@MassieGG @gabefollower Well, now you have to learn how to aim.
Which for most people is an absolute nightmare.
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it feels like the general reaction right now is that people are pissed off not because deadlock is a moba, but because now they have to learn how to play a moba.
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@brian_mings @210parkside @Betorockmetal_ @InfernoOmni @Dexerto It doesn't take a lot of other players in a game that's primarily played 1v1.
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@calamareth @210parkside @Betorockmetal_ @InfernoOmni @Dexerto People are playing StarCraft I have no trouble finding matches every day
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@calamareth I didn’t “say” anything I just explained there is no possible “nuance” that means the player count displays higher than it is
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@calamareth Here is the 2020 player count
26800 games in one of 4 servers
If 3 (minimum amount) people per game that’s 80K
14K players in chat of one server
Total in games 320K (worldwide)
Total in chat 56K (worldwide)
Total 376K
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@calamareth Even in 2020(10 years past release) StarCraft had a concurrent player count of well over 300K putting in the top ten most played games. While the player count is no longer displayed it is likely still around 50K (top 100 most played games)
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@Betorockmetal_ @InfernoOmni @Dexerto RTS games are played… but they’re not console focused so they don’t have a massive audience. But there’s plenty of active RTS games with a lot of good ones coming out this year.
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@InfernoOmni @Dexerto If I had a guess, after the success of warhammer 40k space marine 2, they will probably try to imitate 40k once more.
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We need your help! To stress test our back end systems and get ready for the 13th we enabled downloads of the launcher. You can download and sign in to get ready now!
accounts.hytale.com/download
Thank you, and we look forward to having you in game soon! #Hytale
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@Tyler_McV If you're already asking this, then you might not be the target audience.
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I got Arc Raiders, I played it a little and I don't entire understand it.
Honest question, what is the best situation to play the game with? How do I find the fun?
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@Tyler_McV @ChermitiLoyal Gacha games could be considered close enough.
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@ChermitiLoyal He seems to try his best to pull the best of what this industry has to the surface, but also seems very beholden onto the major corp interests that are ruining everything so quickly.
I was impressed there weren't any gambling or AI ads at TGA, however, so he seems discerning.
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Geoff in the 90s was one of the best independent journos working. A lot of Gameslice is kinda cringy nowadays, but Geoff was honestly a trailblazer back then.
I don't agree with a lot of what he does nowadays, but Geoff did the work.
claypot.blue 🪴@_claypot
people keep calling him a nepo baby but i think geoff is actually insanely lucky. his first big break was covering a game his childhood friend was working on called unreal. as in the first game on the unreal engine. then he managed to get early access to half-life
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