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Fully agree. I think that Steam should make it a platform requirement that external launchers cannot be used on the platform.

It makes zero sense for me to hit play just to have a third party launcher open, and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. At that point, I’m better off just buying it through the third party launcher.

The whole third-party launcher update process is also obnoxious… Every gatcha game does it. what’s the point of using steam at that point

To add some more information to this, you can see the context yourself. (so you don’t need to search like I did) they are referencing a post the Op made from five months ago. Admitting that’s how it worked

I tried to hyperlink it but Anubis gets in the way and throws a not found on the link for some reason, that or the original post was deleted

I do the same, its so nice not needing to worry as much with cleaning.

Even then, the prompt could be as easy as a “recheck” button that the user sees on age restricted media. Kind of like how their age verification bucket was going to be. Database side all they need to know is a boolean of true or false of if they are a minor or not. or /maybe/ a trinary (0,1,2) system if that wanted a distinguishment of < 13 13-17 and 18+ It doesn’t have to check daily, it only has to check when the user requests access to age restricted stuff.

Simply speaking. No

Lets be real, while many do care, it isn’t going to be a “I need to leave the platform” level care.

Furthermore, the people impacted by it, may also not actually be in the majority either. For example they are doing similar to how discord is doing their age verification, where they are using existing metrics to infer your age without hard requiring it. Reddit has stated that said metrics include account age, email provider and topics you navigate.

Unless they have a super heavy handed way of doing this, I doubt anything super meaningful like another mass exodus like how the API issue was will happen.

I agree with Matrix Sucking, it needs very heavy work on both frontend and backend implementations to be taken serious, that’s why I stopped pushing it to my friend groups, the people I convinced to join ended up needing features it just doesn’t support yet, like an actual permission system instead of the numeric based > x style, or actual custom emote capability that isn’t a patchwork decided by the software and the huge barrier of getting started. People don’t want to have to pick through 30 different frontends to find one that works perfectly for a server.

Matrix works amazingly for the techies, or for people who want a limited IRC style feature set. But for for the casuals who are used to what discord provides, it just isn’t a good competitor. It’s complicated to get going, isn’t unified and lacks features. Most people I have tried to suggest it have bailed due to that not long after joining.

XMPP being difficult though? I hard disagree. It’s well maintained, it’s super established, and for the most part unlike matrix whom decided frontend needed to make decisions on feature-sets, everything on XMPP is backend based. You have the same issues as matrix client wise but, for the most part client feature-sets are universal due to how long it’s been out. I would push XMPP long before I go back to pushing matrix again. I have had better luck keeping/maintaining people on XMPP than I have with matrix.

Yea this right here. People don’t remember, the only reason everyone left Skype in the first place, wasn’t because of skypes enshittification, although that didn’t help.

It was because during skypes implementation of said enshittification, their uptime was almost non-existent. Cloud servers crashed constantly, the linux program for it was unusable and required reinstall every time you opened. Messages weren’t sending and people weren’t getting notifications or history. People were forced to go elsewhere in order to remain in contact, so people moved to discord. The more people who moved the faster the transition become. Eventually everyone realized “Wow this is such a better product” and decided to stay.

yea, that’s exactly why they don’t do that. They know the only main feature that they offer that people who subscribe actually want is the emotes everywhere, they won’t offer a super cheap tier offering only that as the jump would be people on the 1$ tier and then people on the 10$ tier. Nobody would do nitro basic.

Google Wallet users can share a passport ID pass; Google sends Discord a birthdate, and Discord derives age from it without retaining that date.

… if google wallet is determining it anyway, why can’t google wallet just reply yes or no to the “is over 17” query… it seems like discord wouldn’t need to know exact age at all in that flow.

I think a big issue with it is that theres no real way to properly sue a project if the president ok’s it. It’s a lot of money to go after a case, and then since it’s a federal case the president has pardon power on it. An IP violation is almost always federal… which falls under that pardoning ability. It would need to either stay at a state level (which is unlikely given who is involved) or keep it in civil court, which I don’t think IP violations of this magnitude would stay contained.

Honestly with how the law currently is, I think the president could publicly execute someone(or order someone else to) for any declared reason, as long as said reason could be remotely tied to it’s position of power, and then for the crime they could just pardon it. There’s nothing blocking it.

Tetromino’s as a design implementation is not trademarked, but the concept and names are. The Tetris Company owns the rights to any use of Tetromono’s and Tetris in the gaming sector. Being said, the patents to such concepts have already expired, so unless they were using trademarks naming I think they are fully allowed to use it. I don’t know if the Tetris company has any legal standing here.

that looks similar to the HOA buildings that my aunt lives in in florida, it’s an enclosed pool but, the glasswork is similar.

I would love to live in a place like that as well, but I couldn’t deal with the HOA’s said locations almost always have

That as well will go on my list for prospects, although, I think it’s going to go closer to the espresso machine area of the listing! you are quite right they are a tad pricey up front lol

that may be my choice next time around

man, I yearn for the coffee maker that lasts long enough to have the button rub off again. It’s been years since I’ve had one last long enough to do that. I started buying service/replacement plans for my coffee makers because they just are not built like they used to be.

Nexus mods? you mean the same site that paywalls downloading mods in bulk, and account walls downloading files to require sign in? And has already been proven to remove free features if they think it can be a decent perk for the sub model, the same site that deactivates accounts after a few months of no activity, the one with literal ads in their first party software and the only way to get around it is to pay a monthly subscription. That is the site you plan to keep your “always free, no paywall” product on.

Yea OK, I love the ambition but I will believe that when I see it. I expect SteamDB will be locked behind a paywall a few years from now at the latest.

Also if I find it amusing that if you look at the FAQ’s on it… they are straightforward and say they plan to make money off of it.

edit: Upon looking it up again, I misremembered the third party situation. They rate limit third party, if detected, so I removed that complaint.

what’s screwed up is at 2010 a month it also disqualifies you from Medicaid in states that have low income eligibility. It’s not uncommon that if you aren’t getting benefits to self cap your hours at 20-25 hours a week because any more and you lose federal aid, so its cheaper for them to actually work /less/. All stemming from the companies inability to let their workers work.

“unrestricted ownership” of an online multiplayer game.

I personally don’t see why that would be unreasonable. Yea it’s multiplayer but, you buy a product expecting to be able to use said product, even if it’s multiplayer. I can somewhat understand the argument of breaking online TOS or something and being banned but… I don’t get the argument that you can’t own your games you have. There’s no reason that a storefront in general would do that. Imagine the concept on that applied to any other industry. “Yea so the repo man is here for your couch, yea I know you paid for it in full 12 years ago but, the furniture supplier no longer supports that model so we are removing it”. Most people would expect the same out of their digital products. I’ll be curious to see what direction that goes.

but… you can own a physical item without ownership of all IP on it. that argument makes no sense. By that same logic wouldn’t second party stores (such as sony… since they don’t own every game they sell…) also not own the IP, so therefore wouldn’t be authorized to actually sell said IP via the licenses?

Absurd argument.

I read that the reason it’s being hidden/blocked is because it’s pretty likely the republican seat could go to a democrat seat if they allow the seat vacant, due to who would be electing the special election for the position, thats why they plan on just waiting until he naturally is removed from seat instead to allow for a proper vote. They would rather be down a vote than be down 2 votes.