Excellent time for the Japanese to drop ideogram/logogram system and have an alphabet like a functional language.

“All I said is that the Japanese do not have a functional language. I don’t understand where people think I was being derogatory about a specific race.”

I did not mention an ethnicity. I mentioned you, specifically.

I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system, and imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system

And I think you suck because you are an extremely bad person.

Equivalent statement right?

Why am I still here?

the lemmy hivemind

A big way Lemmy defers from Reddit: people who unironicly use the word “hive mind” are not to be taken seriously and you can just ignore them.

I don’t understand why these assholes insist on people working more hours. What’s the difference to them between 1 person working 70 hours a week or 2 people working a combined total of 70 hours if they’re both paid the same hourly rate?

You’ve been saying everyone in the industry knows not being on Steam means your game won’t be successful and it warps the industry around it.

You’ve also been saying that Alan Wake 2 was guaranteed to make a lot of money if they released on Steam.

So given these two arguments you’ve been making, why would a company choose to make less money by not releasing on Steam?

Here’s the funny part: it’s probably fine

Then what have you been going on about all this time? You’ been saying repeatedly that it’s a problem and now you’re saying it’s probably fine? Pick a lane.

If you’re not in this one store, you lose access to most customers.

Customers who want your product can still access it.

That’s a fucking monopoly.

Not by the dictionary definition nor the legal definition you cited.

We need to recognize these situations, before they ruin everything.

But “it’s probably fine.”

And gaming would be better-off if every game was in every storefront

Which most of them are. For a while Epic was refusing games that wasn’t signing exclusivity deals with them, but that ended up not working out for them.
In the past Walmart has refused to sell music of artists with content they disagreed with. Was that Walmart exploiting it’s market share, or a business choosing what they do and do not stock?

instead of one store being a huge fucking deal and the rest being nearly irrelevant.

Again, what should we do about that?

Some of them are convinced to

So not being on Steam isn’t widely known as dooming the game? If everyone knows not being on Steam will force your studio to shut down how could you possibly convince anyone to choose to do so?

So what do you propose? Is there some action Steam is doing that they should be legally stopped from? As far as I am aware Steam has the most customers simply because those customers prefer it.

Valve kills studios by saying ‘no thank you.’

Back to your earlier point: why wasn’t Alan Wake 2 on Steam? Did Steam say ‘no thank you’?

The mere possibility shapes the entire industry.

If it’s such a wide reaching and well known issue, why would any studio choose not to release on Steam? Do you know something they don’t?

Games want to feature nudity and intimacy

They they do. Steam has full on porn games on it.

If only there were words for one company arbitrarily restricting who gets to reach customers.

Freedom of association? Valve is not obligated or required to host everyone’s game if they don’t want to.

Ability

So you think if Steam decided to cancel all of its sales and double the price of everything people would keep purchasing from them? If not then they do not have the ability. We already know they don’t have the ability to prevent competition in the market due to the competition in the market.

if they start being dicks, we’re all in deep shit?

We’re really not. If they start being dicks other stores already exist that we can use instead.

The reason is not complicated.

Right: there’s not a market for AAA torture porn / sexual abuse games.

One example does not mean most.

that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors.

So again, not what we’re seeing at all.

Epic has little impact because Epic is shit at making a store people actually want to use.

Alan Wake 2 was a popular and acclaimed game, and it did terribly on PC specifically

Exceptions mean there’s no rule, yeah?

Monopoly:

1: exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action

2: exclusive possession or control

3: a commodity controlled by one party

4: : one that has a monopoly

they have competitors

So not a monopoly.

Exceptions mean there’s no rule, yeah?

1. when you’re arguing that it’s impossible for a game to make a profit without Steam, yes

2. my post was in reply to you listing a single game that wasn’t profitable for a year and blaming that on it not being on Steam. If my example is not a valid argument then you shouldn’t have argued that way in the first place.