A lot of AA studios have been cramming in a ton of microtransactions still, whereas indie is mostly devoid of it, but it definitely gets a lot better the more A’s you remove.

The video game industry. (Indie games are on fire lately, though.)

You left out the English speaking, the bad work conditions, and everything else. Please reread.

With global market share being 27%. and the United States being specifically more than 50% and being the largest place that there’s market saturation of that high.

Then you consider that the entirety of the iPhone conversation is in English. You can negate out the largest populist countries that would have iPhone.

Lastly, the context of the conversation is shitty work conditions, so you’re taking a primarily English-speaking country and then, once again, increasing the chances of the United States.

With all of that information and the fact that the United States has a 50 plus percent chance of iPhone usage, which is a higher percentage than any other singular nation’s populace, you get they are likely in the United States of America.

Statistics are fun.

In other words they can kick rocks. Assholes wanted at-will employment. They got at-will employment.

There’s only one state in the U.S., and since it’s an iPhone, sorry, kind of assuming you’re in the States, that that’s true in.

Well then, Arizona’s screwed. It’s the largest frying pan in the United States.

Why build a city up and condensed when you can just spread it over 100 miles, add 1 rail line, and then declare yourself a great transportation hub?

Well, you see, he’s not an unborn child, so it’s fine. 🫠

Sarcasm (but also sadly likely Tesla’s take): How are you so sure they wanted to get out?

Super Mario Bros. 3 was released as a fully finished product that I actually own a physical copy of.

Borderlands 4, will probably be a quarter finished when it released, filled with all kinds of apologies, possibly have micro transactions, and will likely be able to be taken out of my library at some point as it’s digital only.

The value is not the same.

“Would you kindly”

Oh, that’s absolutely horrible that they designed it that way. 🤮

Worth that at least before you start looking at different hardware.

Otherwise, it’s the same thing if you have a smart TV, download the Jellyfin app, and then just completely stop it from being able to connect anywhere else.

If you’re happy with the Roku hardware and you’re going to cancel all your other streaming services, why not just firewall block the Roku from reaching out of your local network?

If you do that, Jellyfin will still work fine, and you won’t have the ability to get posted ads or anything else from the Roku, so it’ll just become a Jellyfin box.

I think the saddest part is that if BYD could be imported into America, it’d probably still be cheaper with the 20% tariff.

I mean, all this says is people are going to be people and unfortunately the vast number of people are terrible.

This coming from game journalism, which has just turned into a mouthpiece and constantly been used to lie about how good games are.

Funny how the date of this article comes out around the time that Amazon is failing, Epic is failing, Ubisoft is failing, and they’re failing because they hate the people that they sell their products to, and they refuse to be user-friendly and user-focused.

Steam isn’t perfect, but the reason why they’re a monopoly is they actually give a shit about gamers, unlike all of their competition.

Gamers aren’t a product, they’re a user, and Steam understands that offering the voice to those people makes their product what it is. The more users they have, the more money they make. They don’t need to nickel and dime and squeeze.

This is something that every single competitor they have had has just blatantly ignored.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/comment/15611343

This coming from game journalism, which has just turned into a mouthpiece and constantly been used to lie about how good games are.

Funny how the date of this article comes out around the time that Amazon is failing, Epic is failing, Ubisoft is failing, and they’re failing because they hate the people that they sell their products to, and they refuse to be user-friendly and user-focused.

Steam isn’t perfect, but the reason why they’re a monopoly is they actually give a shit about gamers, unlike all of their competition.

Gamers aren’t a product, they’re a user, and Steam understands that offering the voice to those people makes their product what it is. The more users they have, the more money they make. They don’t need to nickel and dime and squeeze.

This is something that every single competitor they have had has just blatantly ignored.

Jokes on you I only add half and half