I don’t blame them, the tactics used are manipulative by design and should be regulated further.

Even ignoring the market research, its an easy observation. Most gamers buy a few or less games per year. Them games usually being the big AAA ones marketed to them.

Consoles are brought up a lot because that is what is most popular with the average gamer, I mentioned it’s not exclusive to console. PC has however always had more success with indies and has less of that type of customer, though that seems to be shifting a bit recently with the PC market overtaking consoles.

It’s not tribalism to merely point things out about different segments. Not everything someone says is an attack.

I also never said

“console gamers will buy anything they’re told to”

I dont know why we are fabricating quotes or falsely insinuating.

Have you been personally affected by this? I didnt mean to offend you.

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Yes. You did. We weren’t discussing stores advertising, but the effects.

You missed the context.

No, all games should release server binaries (and the game for free if it’s a subscription model) after they close down. Same for free-to-play or whatever, we should have the right to archive games.

It’s not up to me to pay extra for servers, they should take the costs of them into account when deciding to make an online game.

Games like World of Warcraft make you pay for DLC and a subscription, which is ridiculous. OSRS just asks for a monthly subscription, is that a model I want to see expanded? Absolutely fucking not. On topic though, games with that model should still have to release the entire game for free after they close the official servers.

Thats not a business model we want to encourage.

Games should be buy once, play forever.

There’s no issue with it, they are obviously going to take money to play a game, that’s on their own morals to decide.

But a lot of people just blindly buy whatever is shown to them, its why standards for games in the mainstream market has fallen off a cliff over the last 15 years. We have people buying $30 skins on the regular…

I have them disabled too, but even if you just open Steam, there will be an ad on the store page.

Youre right, its a game people are ‘told’ to buy, rather than a recommendation. The first thing they see when they start up their console will be an ad for it.

Consoles have always had that market of just buying a few big games a year, they never broke into the indie scene very well.

But PC isnt immune to it, Steam shows ads for launches on startup and both platforms suffer from social media influence. The biggest seller of games has to be Twitch. Get a bunch of streamers playing your shitty game and youll sell loads of copies.

Israel cares because USA cares and they want to keep their daddy happy. With the support of USA, Israel can keep slaughtering innocents as much as they like. Israel would love to have nukes themselves, they want to be a military world power (you know, so they can keep committing crimes against humanity).

Marketing for his new game, thats all.

Which AI fuckhead got into Valve HQ

Asking for loads of personal information on sign up and then when I requested deletion, they requested even more. This was like 7 years ago, maybe they changed or got called out. Either way, I’ll never use them again.

My OVH experience was fucking awful, I wouldnt go anywhere near them. Big data collection scheme. Even the big 3 want less from you to spin up a machine or delete an account.

A good one? It’s incredibly sloppy.

He can ask ChatGPT to help put the fire out

Israel will bully whoever they can, they are not scared because they always have big daddy USA to run back to.

It’s a scam, they don’t even refund donations if they don’t make the target. Why are their operating costs so high? This is such a red-flag, they need to shutdown regardless.