It’ll be neither. Now that the upper class is affected, they’ll be lobbying hard for strict gun control. But hey, archery still exists…

Sounds like regular college/university politics to me.

Fair point with neither being publicly traded. I should have been more clear on that.

Unreal the engine, or the game series? From the perspective of a consumer, I don’t think either of them seem to be in good shape these days, unfortunately.

Er… Carmarck is in Id. Epic’s founder and CEO is Tim Sweeney.

“Fucking hypocrite” and “Epic Games”. Never have any other set of 4 words fit together so perfectly.

That’s kind of a weird way of doing it, but good to know thanks!

“Making yourself suffer” by boycotting Steam.

It goes against every fiber of my being to not utterly despise a multi-billion dollar corporation, but I just don’t have the energy that I used to. I have to pick the battles I want to fight, and they haven’t done enough to make it worth it for me to do that.

Some perspective from someone vocally against Epic:

They entered the market and tried to get their foot in the door not by providing a better service or experience to the consumers, but by being underhanded and anticompetitive while accusing their competition of being underhanded and anticompetitive. Add on that with the fact that their CEO lacks any sort of humility and integrity, and I simply do not trust them to give a single shit about me as a customer. If they achieved their goals, I’m confident that they would leverage their position to extract value out of me immediately—be it through ads, increased prices, or selling my data to third parties. I don’t want to support that by giving them any of money.

While I don’t think Valve is my friend either, they at least:

1. Have a history of doing things that provide some benefit to their users, even if its clearly out of self-interest.

2. Aren’t publicly traded.

When it turns to shit, we have the high seas.

Everything goes to shit eventually, but pre-emptively making yourself suffer is just silly. Enjoy the time you have, and vote with your wallet once they start doing anticompetitive crap like paid exclusivity deals. Until then, we might as well enjoy the fact that Valve isn’t a public company obligated to chase short term profits for shareholders.

Epic is the pro-developer storefront.

I think their historically-bad UE5 documentation and laser focus on adding features optimized for Fortnite but terrible for other uses beg to differ.

They’re the pro-shareholder storefront. Nothing more, nothing less.

Oh, I wasn’t the one who was banned. I’m here to call out questionable use of moderation powers by the lemmy.ml admins. If the admin felt that the user violated instance rules, the recourse was to issue a site ban—which they did. Throwing in 20 community bans after that for the same time frame is petty and unnecessary.

Reposting my comment from another thread because it needs to be made clear:

Those mod devs are absolute assholes.

As per the decompiled code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it…

A slightly more accurate translation:

Oh, you actually noticed. We are currently waiting for our pack of lawyers to prepare the paperwork to file a suit against GamersNexus for what we are going to claim is libel. Rest assured, we are committed to trying to find some escape goat to throw under the bus and minimizing the damage to our investors.

I see you’ve just met Kaboom. If your Lemmy client supports it, it would be wise to add a tag for future reference…

Those mod devs are absolute assholes.

As per the decompiled code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it…

BriJee, Amigus, and Obsolete— sincerely, go fuck yourselves.

As the regretful owner of a ball pit, I wish I didn’t see this.

The in-place upgrade process leaves a lot to be desired, in my experience. I understand why routers with limited storage capacity wouldn’t be able to support it, but the lack of A-B partitioning support for x86 and ARM builds in 2024 is really stupid.

If an upgrade introduces a regression and breaks, my family is stuck without internet while I spend a few hours re-flashing an old release and making sure everything still works.

Ubisoft and Logitech right now:

Every 3 years, and only “top of the line” if your definition means 4 generation old parts that have been refurbished.

The impressive part is that some of those games can actually run even better than on Windows.

Fun game. Controller support is a bit limited but still playable. For less than $1, I agree with OP and can absolutely recommend it.