Its so interesting how averse all of lemmy (and reddit before) reacts when someone dares to challenge their dopamine fix.
Monopolies = bad
No two ways about it.
Its so interesting how averse all of lemmy (and reddit before) reacts when someone dares to challenge their dopamine fix.
Monopolies = bad
No two ways about it.
Although I agree that steam has done a lot for indies, the issue remains, no matter how many stans downvote me.
Disclaimer: this is my opinion as an IT worker and dev, not fact. Please be constructive.
I feel with the folks losing their jobs or seeing their indie studio crash and burn.
That said, I feel like they’re starting to pay the price for letting a monopoly dictate game sales (as benevolent and popular this monopolist is, I know I will again be brigaded for this).
As another commenter said, the industry still tries to go ahead with triple or even quadruple A games, push hype and sell to underage gamers practically gambling games with hero faces.
Then there arent enough unions to hold companies to a standard because in the IT world as a whole, people are used to their privilege. „Trust me bro“ is still seen as a valid strategy in this business.
All while customers get put on pink glasses to make them oblivious to the fact that IT work is just a craft, like carpentry, but less known. The amount of buzz words and bullshit in the industry is appalling and needs to go, double time.
A dev should be judged by their ability to develop, not play corporate mindgames or „speak the lingo“.
Actually, this has been discussed on lemmy and we tried to set something up but it didnt pan out afaik. Feel free to push for it or link it if you find something that would work.
Never heard of that. Feel free to share info.
Plex is just really polished and kind of makes sharing with low tech friends easy imo. But switching to proper foss is on my list.
Exactly my thought. Thank you for pointing that out.
That would be neat as well. :) thanks for sharing.
There actually already is steamdb which does that exact thing. The reason I suggested it is because probably all would benefit from it.
One that splits my money over open source projects per my usage (I tell them). Currently it is too hard to find all donation links of all projects one uses and then keep an eye on them, update payment info and amount. Also if many people donate small amounts it would lessen the overhead compared to one person donating small amounts.
Thanks for pointing that out. Its like we have multiple levels of control mechanisms ensuring our eternal enslavement.
Yeah no. Not discussing with stans. Monopolies are bad. That is irrefutable, scientific fact. They erode the markets they are in.