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Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO (frvr.com)
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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

If epic put money into bringing linux gaming decades ahead of where it was instead of hating on it I would have jumped ship even if they didn't make linux supported hardware that lives on my recliner.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Nobody cares about Linux, it has user share close to a margin of error in a poll of 1000 people. Valve employing 3 Linux devs doesn’t offset damage to consumers and devs.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    and the bulk of the users can enjoy being forced to upgrade to hardware with even more spying being the only difference just to run a shittier version of their old operating system rental cloud compute and game streaming. I'll reassess when gabe dies or if they start firing off u.s. politics level red flags but worst case I have drm free/stripped copies of every game I might play again or recommend on offline hdd and tape.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    „Gabe wouldn’t do that to me”.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way

    and literally every other company is aready doing their version of 'that' to their clients but yes lets attack the ones that haven't yet then if they do I guess we can switch back to ignoring it like the rest of them

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Aren’t you bothered by the fact that most Valve games these days rely on gambling for monetisation? Aren’t you bothered they don’t make an effort not to advertise gambling to children unless forced to like in Netherlands or Belgium?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    that should absolutely be regulated globally and it better damn well include roblox and literally every gacha and shooter game too. Parents should really be doing the wallet voting and politician mailing there but I've seen dads quiet their kids by letting them roll gacha on the phone while waiting to pay for food and when I told my friends about the pedos on roblox situation they told me off saying I don't know what its like to have kids... When the parents are happy to feed their children to the machine what the fuck can I do about it?

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