I can’t think of an IP that has carried mediocre devs harder than Pokemon has.

That’s pretty cool of them

Nobody hates their players quite like niantic. So glad I quit playing this slop a year or two ago.

I agree they’re at the top for a good reason, and as it stands they’re not a problem. I’d just love for more of that 30% to go to the devs over expanding Gaben’s knife collection.

I think their market dominance makes it an uphill battle for a dev to not put their games on steam. I don’t think that’s much of a problem right now because Valve has been reliable, but all it takes is a bad turn of events at Valve leadership for that to change. I think they are a gatekeeper only insofar as they have market dominance and a platform with games with DRM

The question was what are the alternatives, those are alternatives

Gog, direct distribution, something else I haven’t thought of. I just fear monocultures. Things can go south fast

I wouldn’t mind this over in the states. I see these pieces of crap strewn out all over the place outside. I see refillable ones like juuls pretty often too but not as often as the little tykes lookin disposable ones.

Right on. I enjoy steam and I find Valve are mostly responsible gatekeepers, but at the end of the day, they’re still a gatekeeper

!aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz is that way, buddy.

The Nazis overheated the German economy not entirely unlike what is happening in Russia right now. It wasn’t sustainable nor healthy.

Jesus out there lookin like a C’tan shard

I see 999 right now

Yeah maybe to their three mile island project. What a weird sentence. Just a few years off from our Weyland Yutani future

Gotcha, sounds like we’re measuring two different things then

79,000,000 / 2,550 = 30,980

The original article is about Russia, so not really imo.

India and China don’t trust each other much at all and Brazil and South Africa just want trading partners

It’s just an economic bloc. They don’t even really agree on much other than the desire to not get pushed around by the G7.

I just got an email from Reuters just the other day saying they’re implementing a paywall. Looks like they’re trying to find multiple new revenue streams