Handheld gaming devices? Which ones?

“Steam does like everyone else but gets praised for it.”

No console or handheld gaming system is giving out yearly refreshes.

vLLM can only run on linux but it’s my personal favorite because of the speed gain when doing batch inference.

You might be able to convert to hevc (x265) and trim it down by quite a bit.

You will always lose a bit of quality converting though, even from 1080p to 1080p, but I consider it pretty acceptable for cartoons and things of that nature.

Other companies didn’t pay the arbitration fee so valves system was a bit better than the rest. Realistically, the consumer always gets fucked.

The point is more that Steam is getting praised for this, while it’s just to make class action lawsuits, like the one they were just served with for their anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviors, much costlier for the other party.

It’s just a way to bring in and trap people in their ecosystem. It’s free like Gmail is free, not out of altruism. The bad seriously outweigh the good when it comes to steam, we shouldn’t praise them.

You can use the same argument about Musk or Benzos as well. Clearly, they are over charging for the value or they wouldn’t be billionaires.

Steam could give the same value on 2% taken and Gaben would probably still be able to afford at least one of his 6 mega yatchs. But there’s indie companies that are struggling where just an extra 10% would go a long way.

In the end, Gaben and his friends greed is killing indie companies, affecting the quality and amount of games we get and is having a detrimental effect on the industry.

Yet because Gaben has a really good pr team and managed to convince everyone he’s “not your average billionaire”, we now have comments comparing him to Jesus and applauding his monopoly as being the only good one. Fucking hell.

There is no such thing as a good monopoly. He leverages a 30% tax on a huge chunk of the gaming industry. Steam, Microsoft, Epic, Sony and Nintendo all essentially participate in collusion and anti competitive behavior.

Think of all the indie studios that closed and sequels that got canceled and ask yourself if they could have made it if steam only took 5%.

They leveraged linux to save on development and maintenance costs. Capturing the handheld market at a tenth of the price while making the same profit isn’t altruisme.

At twelve disciples, that means he can give each pair one of his mega yatchs. I’m sure with a third of all gaming profit coming their way, the twelve of them will be able to afford the 100 million per year it costs to maintain the fleet worth around 1 billion.

He’s not Jesus, he is just a piece of shit billionaire like the rest.

Even the hype around the original is flat out silly.

Gaben is definitely getting himself a new mega yacht this year, fuck yeah.

In my experienced, it’s never used in a voting manner, it’s mostly to acknowledge and smiley faces (usually always from the same people). Serving the same propose isn’t the same as being tailored for that purpose. For instance, I don’t recall being able to order posts by amount of emoticons on teams although I don’t know if you can do this with Nintendo’s version, I’m just assuming. The actual bulletin part of teams where you can post things gets barely any use in my experience.

Tbh I’m not a big fan of teams in general. I don’t have much experience with slack though.

They can “like” posts, which I found pretty novel in a business environment. It lets the employees vote on what’s important.

I hope they put “finally release the next Oblivion for fuck sales” as one of their demands

Less than 400 employees with 8500 million in revenue while the indie industry struggles backs it up.

The fact that Gaben is a multi billionaire backs it up.

No one becomes a billionaire through hard work, it’s stolen wealth. Ask yourself if your arguments can be just as easily applied to bezos, it might give you some perspective on how insane it is to be defending Gaben and his ridiculously fat stack of cash.

Instead of circle jerking it with your buddy, why don’t you point out where I’m wrong.

To be clear these are my own opinions and I clearly think Epic Games should be regulated just like the other platforms.

I think all the platforms are predatory and taking advantage (except gog), it’s you guys that are giving steam a free pass when they are at best slightly better than the others but still shit. I guess bootlicking is easy if steams marketing team convinces you it’s in your best interest.

I said this was costing us indie studios

You said they chose what price they put up their game for, implying the best solution is us paying more instead of steam getting less

I explained I think this is a bad decision for us the consumers and the industry as a whole and more importantly, that steam can absolutely afford to pay less.

Reread the whole conversation and try to understand what I’m saying if you want me to continue conversing with you. You seem to be ignoring my points and we are going in circles.

Implying I don’t know what a store front is or how it works is condescending.

Valve is a store front in a soft monopoly with other similar products and colluding with them. We would have more and better quality games if the government did its job and regulated the store front industry.

Instead of regulating, you seem to imply these costs should be passed down to us instead and the indie industry should just bring up it’s prices, just so Gaben can keep his six yatchs. I think you are confused about your own self interests.

The margins are thin in indie development, especially when they are usually offered at bargain prices. I’m going with the assumption that if these platforms had been regulated years ago, a good number of indie developers that shut their doors would have survived with the extra profit. It doesn’t seem like a wild assumption to make.

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