I haven’t really enjoyed pokemon for quite some time now. It started off as a fun casual rps style game with a simple and entertaining story to follow. Then they kept adding more complexity to it and it just kinda fell off for me.

I quit Nintendo ages ago. As a company, they’re assholes. Then they want to charge $50 for a game that’s 5 years old and 2 generations behind in graphics. Just can’t hold a candle to PC or even the other consoles. The only thing they have left is like 4 game IP’s

Epic is in no position or standing to compete against valve. To be a monopoly, you have to actually own an overwhelming portion of the market you’re in.

Epic dropped to try and compete. It doesn’t work the other way around.

Because epic isn’t the market leader, by a large margin.

He charged less than others and pays better than others.

Valve also can’t take much of a lower cut on game sales because their current cut is the market average and valve would get in legal trouble for monopoly practices and unfair competition because they’re already so much more popular than the few competitors they have. What Gabe could do is give money away and be like alteuistic.

While I won’t defend that he could be much more altruistic with his money, but complying with different refund laws at a digital level is super easy to do. Even more so for Australia, since it isn’t like anyone bouncing between country borders all the time there.

There is no “under f-droids banner”. Any apk under any store or no store at all gets its check through google.

A lot of apk devs of nice little unique and often free apks are made by people who aren’t going to want to hand over there identification and private info to Google in order to be verified.

Nope. No apk you can get a hold of will be installable without googles over the internet check. At current it looks like you’ll be able to force an install using adb shell commands, but that will effectively gut almost anyone from installing an unsigned apk. Also, Google would be able to remove even that option if they so choose.

Anyone been playing it on steam deck? How’s the fps? Is the text very hard to read?

Now factor in the cost savings from a lower server load and less staff to run the back end, and possibly the smaller licensing\use costs for the games available to play since less people would be accessing those games.

This going to be a total venture capitalist play. It was already set that the fifty billion dollar acquisition was also going to be placing EA in like twenty billion in debts. They’ll flood it with more debts, piece the IP’s all out, legal launder the money, and take ea into bankruptcy.

EA is dead.

I know there’s other costs associated (like the engineering and advertising) , but I happen to know with the iPhone 13 pro they were making about $400 per device. I doubt those margins have shrunk much, if at all, since then.

You should evaluate ligma.

Oh, have a lil fun. Lol

Like $1400 or $1500 for the top S line phone, and $3,000 for the top Samsung fold. Fuck all of that.

I would, but science hasn’t made magnification powerful enough to locate it.

“Big companies sell their high end phones for cheap”

What crack rock are you sleeping under? I can buy a street legal used vehicle for less than the “latest and greatest” samsung or Apple phone.

Fuck you. I want a screen this size.

I want the final answer he left out, so it’s finally time for me to start playing rdr2.

Just the modded games stemming from StarCraft and warcraft 3 is massive.

Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?

Wow. “Mega threads” are exactly how reddit buries away news they don’t really want people to see or care about.

I gave up trying to buy Tesla puts. Their valuation perpetually defies all logic. Even after this news their stock is still higher than it was a month ago.

Yep. A fucking Australian group of Bible thumpers, specifically.

The popularity has dipped, but they still have 1,500,000 players per day average and make about $9,000,000 per day. Over 14,000,000 players were on towards the end of last year when they did a juiceworld tribute event.

That include fortnite skins?

Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.

After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.

I got it free from epic a few years ago.

It was put out that everyone should change their passwords. That kind of info for like 90 million steam accounts would fetch a much higher price or ransom than some personal info on a bunch of people like names, phone numbers and an address.

I had assumed it was BS as soon as I saw the price of just $5k.

You’re just speaking of dedicated emulator systems? I’d agree with those numbers of yours then. I was just speaking of what people use to emulate old games in general. Almost everyone just uses a pc, laptop, or cell phone. The numbers for dedicated systems that look like retro Gameboys and stuff like that are outnumbered by like 100 to 1.

You can say 9 out of 10 buying a raspberry pie are setring up retro pie for emulating, but 98 out of 100 people emulating aren’t using a raspberry pie to do it.

The hosting part is like the smallest portion of what valve does.

Steam keeps getting slammed from both sides. They keep getting accused of being a monopoly, , while also getting accused of their rates. But if they drop their rates they get accused of being anticompetitive and monopolistic.

So if they do something similar like Epic, they’ll go back to using their monopoly over the market to keep competitors down.

I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren’t doing so much as they did with FF7. It’s more like just a re-master. It’ll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.

I’ve been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.

Even though I’ve been waiting, I’m not sure if I’ll get it next week right away or not. They’re releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I’m a PC gamer, so I’ll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I’m only going to have a digital copy.

Also, it’s Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.

I’m looking forward to checking out the re-make that’s about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.

For sure, and my backlog is huge. I have tons to still play. I’m just now getting around to gta5 on my steam deck. I also just finished re-playing the original ff7 with some mods that made it look way nicer than back when I played it on my ps1 in the 90’s. I could go another 5 years without catching up to 2020 if I wanted to.

Lol. Take advantage of who?