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Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
21 November 2021 at 2:26 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou are again arguing the strawman that Valve makes better use of their excessive cuts than others do.
How nice. Not the point, not argued against by anyone. Stop it.


Cost+investment+profit would be a perfectly acceptable basis for funding even if Steam were the regulated utility that Purple Library Guy was contemplating.

You've still made no argument that Valve's share is "excessive" other than that developers want more money.
Quoting: TheSHEEEPNo, the argument is that developers deserve more money from their sales.

Oh, my bad: developers really want more money.
Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
20 November 2021 at 9:07 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe 30% is quite likely not justified if you think about Steam like a traditional utility
Why?

There was an analysis I read relatively recently, based on the figures released through the Epic vs Apple trial (I'll include the link if I happen to find it again) that had Valve's break-even point at around a 20% cut, and GOG's at around 25%. Valve's cut is 20-30%, depending on your sales, and they provide a whole lot in exchange. You can get similar services (although arguably not as good) from Sony - who take 30% or Microsoft (again, arguably not as good) - who take 30%. And Valve have invested the money that they've made into the PC gaming ecosystem. Would there be as much money made by developers as easily now if there had been only GameSpy working on only cost-covering margins since 2003?

The only argument ever presented is that developers want more money. And they'll always want more money, whatever the level were set at.
Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
20 November 2021 at 8:52 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: GuestValve don't really provide marketing
They have millions of pairs of eyeballs they can put your game in front of, and they've invested heavily in putting it in front of the eyeballs of customers that are likely to buy your game, as well as providing detailed sales data about which regions are interested in your game and when interest is generated. If you have a better term for that than "marketing," please share.
Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
20 November 2021 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 15
Quoting: TheSHEEEPDid Valve develop or market that game? No. They host its data and provide some (good) service around it
They provide quite a lot of marketing, actually. But it's simple: if you don't feel that Steam provides sufficient value, don't put your game on Steam. If all you want is packaging and distribution, use Itch; they are amazing at that.
Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
20 November 2021 at 3:22 pm UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt's an argument about if developers should be the ones to pay for all of Valve's extracurricular efforts.
Developers aren't paying for anything, customers are. The $100 that developers pay is minimalistic gatekeeping, it doesn't fund anything. If developers don't want to make use of the benefits that Valve provides they can always just use Itch and take up to 100% of the money that customers pay.
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 November 2021 at 6:15 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is in KDE? Huh, weird. I have not experienced that in Gnome. I'd have to check next time there is a new nvidia driver for Sid to try that. Sounds like it's trying to make a new GL call, and since the library had changed, it just crashes. Though you'd think it'd just use whatever is in memory.
Conky freaks out somewhat on Nvidia driver changes, too - the Nvidia monitoring bits. Most software is perfectly fine over the transition, it's just some things that have issues. I've even been doing protein folding during the driver switchover - so heavy GPU compute workload - and it's just sailed right through.
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 November 2021 at 4:53 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, Debian just warns you when there is a kernel mismatch during the nvidia update and you'll need to reboot at your earliest convenience. I've never seen it just take down X for the fun of it.
It doesn't. When you try to use the panel widget to shut down, it pops up a box to ask if it's shutting down, restarting, or logging out that you're after. Spawning that window when you've got a mismatch between the library that the widget was expecting and the one it actually has causes the widget to crash before it successfully spawns the box. So you can't use that method to shut down.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets shown off on the Steam Deck
17 November 2021 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 17
  • developer promises Mac & Linux support

  • developer breaks promise, demonstrating that they can't be trusted

  • developer promises Steam Deck support

  • ...
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 November 2021 at 7:24 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: MohandevirThe bug that quickly comes to my mind, that I personnally witnessed, since switching to Kubuntu, is always happening after an update... Suddenly I can't turn off or reboot the computer. Everytime I get an error message that... I don't remember the name... just crashed. I have to ALT+F4 + CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.
If it's the thing I've seen, it's specifically after Nvidia updates. The version mismatch causes the shutdown widget to crash when you try to use it. You can still do sudo shutdown -h now though.
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 November 2021 at 4:45 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso... why have System menu, and Settings menu, then have System Settings? Should be called Preferences or something...
It's in the specification. "Preferences" could be OK for the settings of the system, but that might be confused with preferences for the menu.
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