Desalus wrote on Nov 6, 2018, 09:08:
Besides, aren't you being presumptuous to say that Diablo Immortal is hot garbage? Not all mobile games are hot garbage, unless I guess if you are some kind of gaming elitist.

Numinar wrote on Nov 6, 2018, 04:34:
Not being interested in something requires no reaction at all. Maybe if you are a cultist at a convention a hiss and boo is in order for a shitty presentation, even I can imagine doing that. But a burn the heretics style internet meltdown from all the usual suspects? That is something else.

Numinar wrote on Nov 6, 2018, 02:49:
entitlement culture

The Magician wrote on Nov 4, 2018, 01:53:
Ya'all suck the life out of the devs, and then trash talk them for making things you don't personally care about. Hint: They didn't do it just for you, there's 6 billion other people on the planet, and a huge number of them who don't play PC games.

Nucas wrote on Sep 20, 2018, 12:44:
as with most things valve does on their lemonade stand platform, anything is better than what they have now. i got an email some months ago reading "Thanks for reporting inappropriate content on Steam!" and i had to think real hard about what it was; it was a steam group trading literal child pornography links that i reported in the winter of 2016. though it could have also been the white supremacist or software piracy groups i reported around that same time, to be fair. i mean, i only got the one email.

Wraith wrote on Aug 12, 2018, 12:59:
Indie developers work off a much smaller development cost/distribution ratio and many of them are digital anyway. Just because a gamedev is triple-A, doesn't mean they shouldn't be entitled to recover their costs. If that philosophy gained traction, we'd never have titles like God of War or GTA V.

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:52:
Books and board games are physical media and there's a considerable number of people who regard them as physical artifacts to be retained. Again, the value is encapsulated in the media as is much of the cost.

For games, the cost equation is asymmetrical. The media is worth nothing and the cost of making the game is the assemblage of data on the media.

Used games are a moral hazard which explicitly steals from development teams. Comprehending the nuances requires a brain, a set of ethics and long term vision.

Frankly, I'm astonished that Gamesteal has been able to get away with it. In my opinion, it's theft on a massive scale.

deqer wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:53:
"selling a used copy of The Evil Within 2 which had never been opened"

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:13:

I guess I am stupid. Please explain.

The media you buy a game on is just media and in the case of a CD, that media is worth less than a dollar.

When you buy a game you're paying for the experience. You can't then finish the game and turn around and sell that experience to someone else. That's copyright infringement and it's theft.

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 14:06:
The used game market is theft, pure and simple. The problem is, most people are too stupid to understand this.

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 1, 2018, 14:43:
And as for how, well, sandbox -> run exe -> look at where it connects to. Obviously requires some manual input, and that right there is the problem. Valve *REFUSES* to manually check files before they are pushed online as in, can be bought. Only when someone complains do they check the "package" on their servers manually...