they will be placed into an ELO where their “skill” matches, so they won’t be any more effective than a real player at that level,
Doesn’t the same logic apply to any sort of cheating that isn’t literally granting immunity or unlimited ammo?
Garry leaving some direct, unsanitized interface to Steam itself directly exposed via lua… which caused Steam/Valve themselves to step in and rewrite a part of all of Steam, because Garry is s fucking moron, and more or less allowed a virus/malware to propogate through Steam itself, independent of Garry’s Mod…
That sounds entirely on Steam. The game is the client in this context, and Steam as the server shouldn’t be trusting anything from the client.
Love the ad hominems, do keep them coming 🙄
folks like you who think they’re a serious competitor
Yeah that’s exactly what my bashing of their pathetic excuse at a storefront was implying.
tens of billions of dollars, like uber did
You’re comparing the cost of building a simple software platform (and face it, Steam isn’t THAT complicated to replicate from a technical perspective) to a company hiring tens of millions of people worldwide for billions of man hours and hardware depreciation. Your estimates are so unrealistic it’s hilarious.
Find me another alternative that isn’t riding on the coattails of pre-existing billions in revenue.
Why would I? I’m not making any claims myself, merely pointing out the ridiculousness of yours.
There’s no good competitors because the money isn’t there to build one. […] Would take tens of billions of dollars today to get in there on top of having near feature parity.
This is ridiculous bullshit. Epic had shitloads of money, they just couldn’t find their ass with both hands. It took them years to implement a freaking shopping cart.
I sincerely doubt that even if another launcher did everything Steam does, it would rival it. People already use Steam.
At that point, you can start grabbing business from steam via promotions and such. You don’t need to rival or outgrow Steam to break into the market, you just need a bit of the market.
And that’s assuming they get to this point, ignoring that Steam had decades to get there. It used to be ass.
It’s not even that other launchers have less features than Steam. It’s just that other than GoG, which has a very limited catalog and no regional pricing, there is not a single store that is not actively anti-consumer to a hilarious extent.
Non-drm steam games can actually just be copied around like you would copy the installer
Epic can’t break into the market because of their own shitty launcher, not because of anything Steam has done to lock down the competition.
Now imagine how hard it’d be for a smaller player.
Not very hard, if they were willing to create a decent launcher and engage in sustainable business practices (and regional pricing).
Jeez, how does a sim game like this take over a decade in dev?
I have a question (an honest one, not implying anything). Given that most games work perfectly on Proton, why does a Linux port excite you?
In addition to what the other person said, it’s not American. It’s pretty universal college / university numbering
Taliban: Don’t worry, we’ll make sure our women’s rights are maintained
Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value
You say that as if publicly traded firms do
Why is Agent Smith in lotr? Damn, it really is a simulation.
I’ve been using Linux for a really long time, but the thumbdrive idea might inspire me to get it up and running on my wife’s laptop!
I would imagine any large boardgame store would carry it or at least be able to order it in.
Hadn’t heard about that, what did they do?
You just described the genre. That’s kinda like saying you didn’t like WoW because it had lots of other players around
Ok. What did you dislike about it? Just telling us your reaction without any reasons doesn’t contribute to the discussion.
New publisher, who probably doesn’t like gog