Please tell me more about "software patents", heh. It's one of humanity's biggest cancers.

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I guess LinkedIn might be useful for business contacts. For example, when an indie developer unexpectedly becomes successful, scammers friendly publishers might want an easy way to contact them.

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Quoting: Pengling

Data shows that children in Europe are spending on average €39 per month on in-game purchases.

Good lord, I never even got close to being given that much pocket-money in a month when I was a kid! :shock: That's a lot to spend on items that don't exist!

That's because, back in your day, you'd have some money that you'd be given or save up, and you'd spend a fixed amount of that in exchange for specific goods at the toy shop or sweet shop or wherever. You wouldn't have had invisible obfuscated access to your parents' credit cards for ephemera.

And you would get toys for birthday and not google/roblox/minecraft/whatever giftcard...

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Quoting: whizseIn-game currency is pretty much modern company scrip [External Link].

These at least have collectible value and won't vanish into thin air when the company goes bust.

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That said, I've noticed an influx of f2p games with in-app purchases on Steam recently and I can't help but think that Valve should show some good will and show some numbers somewhere, for example: "to purchase all items from the shop you would currently need to spend $123,456 on this game" or actually just show *any* examples of what the in-game items and prices are, before I download and start playing. Because some of these games look suspiciously dark-pattern-y.

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"But... but... it's Steam who is evil, I am the victim!" -- Timothy Swiney, probably

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumAnd.. both sold out. Saw this and was just going to buy a 512 as an xmas gift for someone. But I guess not now. :angry:

Check again, they're in stock, at least for me. Probably different regions have different stocks. But maybe they replenished yours.

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I was annoyed when humble bundle handed out steam keys for Duke Nukem 3D And Shadow Warrior instead the usual DRM-free downloads, as I had no idea what it was and was annoyed that I had to create an account, but eventually I did. And then I found out it was a huge shop with a lot of games... and many of them had Linux versions... and they had just released Superfrog HD... and Team17 was still alive... and a lot more of wtfisevenhappening moments that day. Of course I bought Superfrog right away and played it to the end, and fell in love with Steam. So that'd be my fav.

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So I'm a hater now? :tongue:

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Quoting: _MarsNow that wasn't so hard, was it? :tongue:

Nah, making promises is super easy. The hard part is still ahead.

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