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minus-square@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish30•edit-21 month agoThis should be illegal. IGN buys up practically everyone except Kotaku so they technically don’t own a monopoly over the gaming media sector? EDIT: Hang on, wait a minute. Humble is a games publisher. IGN is a games reviewer. Isn’t that conflict of interest?
minus-square@ampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•1 month agoIt is, and it’s old news. They’ve owned Humble for a while now.
minus-square@goferking0@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoAren’t they the ones that made it so you have to give at least 30% to humble no matter how you do the distribution
minus-square@ampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 month agoThat came after the purchase, yes. They’re also far less likely to have DRM-free versions of games these days. It destroyed a lot of my reason for shopping there.
This should be illegal. IGN buys up practically everyone except Kotaku so they technically don’t own a monopoly over the gaming media sector?
EDIT: Hang on, wait a minute. Humble is a games publisher. IGN is a games reviewer. Isn’t that conflict of interest?
It is, and it’s old news. They’ve owned Humble for a while now.
Aren’t they the ones that made it so you have to give at least 30% to humble no matter how you do the distribution
That came after the purchase, yes. They’re also far less likely to have DRM-free versions of games these days. It destroyed a lot of my reason for shopping there.