Quoting: HoriThe 30% cut is terrible but that doesn't make Epic the good guy. FAR from it.

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Quoting: scaineThe same argument and frustration is often voiced around Play and Apple's store - they take their 30% cut but unless you magically put out the next minecraft, factorio or limbo, you're gonna languish with pitiful sales until you go out of business.

And the solution would be what? Everybody is always screaming for CoMPetItiOn... and when they have that and lose against other more popular titles, it sucks. Go figure.

The point is how they get popular. If the algorithm was fairer for new titles, then indies would have a better chance at leveraging Steam and becoming the next big thing. But since it doesn't, they never hit the front-page and the same tired (but popular) games are constantly regurgitated on the carousel and in the discovery queues.

There's also a huge amount of opacity around how that algorithm works. It used to be "okay" for indies, but a couple of years ago (maybe 2018?) it changed, and multiple indies saw their revenues destroyed. They weren't even being surfaced during sales. It put some studios out of business.

Quoting: scaineThe same argument and frustration is often voiced around Play and Apple's store - they take their 30% cut but unless you magically put out the next minecraft, factorio or limbo, you're gonna languish with pitiful sales until you go out of business.

Quoting: SoltrummanLooks like ArtPlay managed the impossible and ported Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to "Linux" after declaring it too much of a hassle during their Kickstarter. Maybe it's just that the middleware they used works on Stadia? Or the big pile of cash offered by Google...

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Quoting: kuhpunktI think it's actually kinda funny that they aren't even planning to release it on the Epic store.

It's not like there's any reason to. It's a terrible storefront with no customers that isn't available for all of the platforms the game has been developed for. Plus I'd imagine that Feral are privately quite salty about Troy.

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Quoting: RoosterSmall off-topic feedback: I do not like this Promoted Comment thing. I understand that Samsai is part of the staff, but I think rather than him having a Promoted Comment, his comment on the topic should be part of the article. Or maybe just have it worded differently, like "Comments from Staff members" This way it makes it seem like his take on the topic is somehow more than the rest of us.

On topic: Was Stallmans former exclusion from FSF really stated to be only because he refused to use "correct" pronoun for trans people or was this just the one highlighted from many other issues?

It was because a VICE article distorting his comments about one of his deceased friends accused by someone of being a rapist related to the Epstein affair. He dared to talk back to an accuser.

Quoting: Liam DaweI would like to point out, that people need to stay respectful and not post comments about subjects surrounding this that are, well, gross. Comments will be removed if people continue to post such things. If you had a comment removed, you should know why.

Quoting: LanzIs VR still a major pain to get running on Linux?

Quoting: ajgpI thought Terraria want coming to Stadia? Did the developer change their tune since their spat with google?