Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: Purple Library GuyNo, they just don't like monopolies, or even oligopolies. Which I'm morally certain you already knew before you asked.

Well its a bit late now isn't it. They should have complained way back when Disney and Apple started buying up the planet....

I dunno about the rest of 'em, but I did. Much good it did me, but that's no reason to stop now. :grin:

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Ten years, eh? Wow, that's such a long time, I can't even imagine anything happening that far in the future . . . Oh wait, no it isn't and yes I can. Microsoft has been maintaining a couple of monopolies for nigh on 30 years now already.

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Quoting: TheRiddickDo people really love Activation and Blizzard that much?

No, they just don't like monopolies, or even oligopolies. Which I'm morally certain you already knew before you asked.

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Quoting: massatt212Imagine having a fast food restaurant and can only sell to selected people to keep competition fair LOL.

Oh my god! The horror! The horror!!! Won't somebody please think of the fast food restaurateurs?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: StalePopcornUnfortunately everyone has a price

Not everyone has a price, it just rarely makes a functional difference because the people who don't have one rarely end up in positions of power.

Of course everyone has a price. Won't you sign up for a microsoft account if you were given absolute rulership over the world including ownership of microsoft itself? Everyone has a price, it just lies somewhere in between zero and the above.

I suppose it is trivially true that everyone has a price for any X if the price can include getting X back as one portion of it. But that's not really meaningful.

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Quoting: Mohandevirhttps://www.pcgamer.com/handhelds-like-rog-ally-have-inspired-microsoft-to-bring-xbox-features-to-pc/

This is another good example of Microsoft being unable to be a leader. It never saw this coming. It just reacts when it feels threatened... One more reason to stick with Valve; They are the only one able to kick Microsoft's butt into action!

Kind of impressive the way that article's writer managed to spend half the article talking about suspend/resume without ever admitting that the Ally running Windows does not have it but the Steam Deck does.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the other hand, the publishers sound like jerks and I don't know what the hell a "publisher" is supposed to really do these days.

I don't know the situation here, and there are definitely publishers who pull lots of "dick" moves, but often the role of a "publisher" is to provide funding for development up front. So the developers have funding from the Kickstarter, plus extra funding from the publisher, to keep them running until they actually have something they can sell.

So they're still not publishers, but rather than primarily publicists, they're specialized venture capitalists. Ugh. So they're probably horrible people, but they did bring something to the table.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPyou don't sound like you've ever developed anything in your life other than a fever and some kind of attitude issue against developers.

Whoa! You get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or what?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPLinux is never going to amount to such a large player base that releasing a native client FOR A MULTIPLAYER GAME WITH SELF-MADE CLIENT-SIDE CHEAT PREVENTION would make business sense to developers.

I dunno about never. Prediction is hard, especially about the future. But it certainly isn't now, and without something like Proton it would be all the less likely to happen in the future.

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Quoting: StalePopcornUnfortunately everyone has a price

Not everyone has a price, it just rarely makes a functional difference because the people who don't have one rarely end up in positions of power.

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