AwesomeLowlander

Nudity - bad. Murdering an intelligent being - no biggie.

Only because you’re from a culture that thinks it’s weird. Pretty common in parts of Europe and elsewhere.

That may have been true a decade ago, but nowadays unless you’re trying to squeeze out top-tier graphics performance (which isn’t the case with this game) you only need to worry about the control scheme. The code can be compiled for multiple platforms.

IMO, it does. Awards showcase and highlight ‘best of’ games, but what’s the point of highlighting a game that is inaccessible to a significant portion of the gaming community? You could potentially make the argument that their purpose is more towards recognising the efforts and success of the devs, but that’s not the aspect of awards that are being discussed in this context.

And also a PS5 exclusive. Eww

Ah. I’m guessing most people missed the joke :)

Wut? Pan European Game Information (PEGI) is the European equivalent of ESRB. Their ratings matter because they have an obvious bias against indies, which hurts their sales.

Jesus I’m so glad I moved to Linux

You’re being funny, right? Tell me you’re just kidding

They did not. It was a personal relationship that went sour, so it’ll probably never happen.

Have a cookie!

Anonamouse is the main private tracker for ebooks and similar.

Oh yeah, it’s a great, if extremely gross, read.

Imagine just how much damage rodents and tiny wildlife could do if they were intelligent.

Your “source” is an image

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/

Also, Steam’s estimated revenue and the PC gaming market are numbers available from various sources. I’ve pointed out why your source is nonsense, and provided more accurate figures.

uses it to their benefit which doesn’t (in my opinion) coincide with consumer benefit

That’s changed from your original ‘behave like a monopoly’ comment, and which I’m still waiting for clarification on. How exactly do they behave like a monopoly supposedly does?

I’ve experienced losing my old email address, and all traces of my old digital identity. They went above and beyond to work with me till I could prove to their satisfaction that I was the original owner of the account, then restored it to me. Steam support is generally amazing.

Lawsuits are cheap and meaningless. Unless actually ruled on, they don’t mean crap (and even then, sometimes it’s just clear evidence of jury / judge bias, like the infamous patent trolls of East Texas).

70-80% of pc market share

This source puts their market share at ~20% of the PC gaming market. Your source is for ‘85% market share in multi-publisher PC game stores’, which is not the same thing, and it’s based on a random tweet by their competitor CEO attacking them, which should carry approximately 0 credibility.

You keep using the word monopoly. It does not mean what you seem to think it means.

Ah. I was not expecting numbers for 2023 under a 2003 year heading.

Steam has an estimated revenue of 8.6bn out of PC gaming’s overall 45bn.

Do you have a source on that? I’d love to quote it in future