Data is ugly.
Zedstrian
joined 1 year ago
They like killing children at home too.
Another 10 to 15 days?
No matter how "angry" Republican voters get, they still vote for more fascism every time.
Important to note that this is a developer giveaway, rather than an official one, so the standard of quality is lower.
I agree—Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony shouldn't have exclusive distribution rights for their consoles either. Their distribution systems are inherently monopolistic, and all the more problematic when games are on a trend towards becoming digital-only, enabling even greater profits from the eventual inability to buy used games.
While the minimal effort Epic Games has put into the Epic Games Store (giving away games rather than implementing innovative platform features) shows that their motive is more to keep as much of the money from Fortnite microtransactions as possible rather than be innovative, it doesn't cost platform holders 30% of sales to host game files. It's a highly profitable business model, especially in closed ecosystems where it is intentionally difficult to install games via alternative means.
While I don't like Epic Games, platform gatekeepers shouldn't be able to extract a toll on software distribution purely because they develop the operating system, and especially not one as high as 30%. A competitive app store ecosystem would reduce platform fees as each store seeks to attract developers, who would in turn be incentivized to reduce prices to make their games competitively priced for consumers. For this to be possible, however, alternative App Store installation has to be possible, something Google is trying to make harder and something Apple prevents in most markets (charging an anticompetitive app installation fee in markets where it is forced to compete).
The system working as intended.
Making users wait 24 hours doesn't improve security; it's an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.
Unfortunately that also wouldn't satisfy the requirements put in place by several operating system level age verification laws.
Another example of Israel illegally targeting journalists, but it still doesn't legitimize his position as a Russian propagandist.
While gas prices may swing the opinions of spineless independent voters that would otherwise vote for fascism when it's expedient to them, MAGA voters are so entrenched in their cult that gas prices alone aren't going to change their minds.