5/6 of MRs get merged...
imecth
joined 1 year ago
Warcraft 3's custom games were a mess, people left all the time which made team games irritating as hell, and the skill level varied widely from one game to the next so half the games ended up with feeders and a stomping one way or the other.
Battle net only became a thing in like 2010, steam came very early in 2002, and started off straight away with exclusives that required you to install their client. They still do btw, there's no portal, dota... on epic or whatever.
I mean, we definitely do have a steam monopoly on desktop, they might not be abusing their position much, as of yet anyways, but it's a monopoly all the same. They captured the desktop playerbase in their little ecosystem and now people are stuck because of their game catalog, achievements, friend list...
What we really need is a standardization of these systems and interoperability between platforms so that they're forced to actually compete instead of being miles ahead just by virtue of being there first.
It's bloat, unnecessary junk that's part of their ecosystem. Instead of having specialized apps, you have one app that does everything; and of course every other brand has to have their own, even fucking musk wants it for twitter.
This creates two problems, first it strains your hardware for no reason, second it creates dozens of walled gardens that don't interoperate, if you want to chat with your steam friends, you need to go on steam, if you want to play your games, you need to open the right launcher; this is the same shit apple is getting prosecuted for by the EU right now.
Sounds good to me. It's annoying that connecting to a store and a social media platform has become so normalized. I just want to play a game.
They probably just never got around to updating that description. I only inquired because I'd heard of that website before.
Brand new is definitely a stretch, their legal page seems to date back to 2019.
That 10% is only there so that you can participate and feel involved; awards are mostly money schemes and industry people patting each other on the back.
Gnome is a very large project with hundreds of different developers and maintainers. I can't speak to your experience but you should avoid generalizing like that, also filing a complaint is always an option; there's a few people over the years that have been kicked out.