Except any good will that Blizzard used to have. But then again, that happened before he left.
Funny, but not a constructive answer. Props for not suggesting Custer’s Revenge at least.
You’re a shit parent if you let your kid play Roblox.
A point could be made about a video game that isn’t actively preying on kids, but Roblox ain’t it.
Just going to drop this here as something to watch for any people who may not believe you:
- buy exclusives or studio? most big publishers do that.
In the case of studios or intellectual property owned by a publisher, you can (unfortunately) expect that to be exclusive to the publisher. When games don’t have the funding to make it past development, taking publishing deals are a necessary evil that often come with similar provisions.
Epic has a habit with inserting itself in projects that don’t need its funding, however. They have a track record of finding indie games that were funded by Kickstarter and offer up a loan in exchange for timed exclusivity to their storefront—backers who already paid for GOG or Steam keys be damned. They even bought out Rocket League and delisted it from Steam, even though it was already published and had been on the platform for years.
I can’t criticize Epic for making their own properties exclusive, but I can absolutely criticize them for being anticompetitive and consumer-unfriendly. Their publishing deals aren’t made in good faith as an investment in the game or future profits, but as a means to remove the consumer’s choice and funnel prospective consumers into their own storefront.
- give free games out? It’s consumer friendly.
This is the one thing I will give them credit for, actually. It is an excellent business model for creating growth and getting users invested in their ecosystem, and it doesn’t actually hurt the consumer.
- drive Valve or other store front out of business? lol
That would be the goal of a monopoly, yes.
- make EGS/EOS so good and free that no one wants to publish on Steam? lol, any advance in that 2 department Steam as platform will respond way before they take foot hold.
Sorry, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at with this. Are you saying other storefronts/platforms on PC aren’t free, or that Epic Games Store currently does a better job?
anything I missed?
I’m not saying Steam should be the only platform; competition benefits us as consumers. But Epic is shady, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they aren’t doing what they are doing for the good of anybody but themselves. Any action they take needs to be looked at critically and analyzed for long-term consequences.
With their win against Google, it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that they create an Epic Mobile Games Store to siphon a large chunk of the massive and extremely profitable mobile gaming market. It’s better than Google having 100% of it, but you can be pretty sure that they would try everything in their power to pull the ladder up after they climb it.
Absolutely, this is still much better than Google winning. Here’s to hoping it gives third-party app stores the power to be more than glorified APK downloaders.
I don’t like Google (and they deserve an L), but Epic really shouldn’t be given a win either. Pardon my Australian, but Tim Sweeney is cunt with ulterior motives and dreams of buying his way into his own monopoly.
It’s just the minority. Most of us don’t proselytize in non-Linux threads.
Oh that original redesign was terrible. And it was insanely slow even on a flagship phone. It’s much, much better now
Reading this, I just switched to see as well. That drawer was atrocious UX, and the new design without it is actually pretty good.
I don’t find myself getting frustrated with having to tap repeatedly to do anything, and the separation of DMs and servers is cleaner and more intuitive than the old layout where they were mixed together.
I still wouldn’t trust the company with a CEO who unilaterally decided that not having redundant systems makes for a better product.
If “you are what you eat” holds true, that explains a lot.
Should’ve joined the trades, my guy.
Is the creator even a kid? I find it hard to believe a kid would give that much of a shit about email spam lists. But, then again, nearly half his repositories are forks or involve Roblox.
It’s actually really easy to get past the custom domain issue.
If the domain is send-and-receive, it will need a SPF record to avoid getting blackholed by most mail providers. A TXT lookup for the SPF record would tie the custom domain back to the real provider.
Or even easier, you could look up the MX records to see what domain they point to.
I was thinking the same. Would be mighty convenient for them if people had to switch to sellout mail providers because the alternatives are all blocked.
I tried installing windows. My house is less drafty, but my computer still doesn’t work.
There’s a difference between the JIT being able to emit better native code than an unguided compiler, and the language being as performant as another language. Java is never going to be as fast as C or C++, and that’s something you can blame its design for.
The just-in-time compiler isn’t bad, but the rest of it is. An optimized hot loop has the potential to emit better instructions than a C/C++ compiler not using PGO, but you’re never going to see that in any real workload.
If you could rip out/avoid the garbage collector, give it the ability to use escape analysis to avoid heap-allocating every single object, and prevent it from implicitly making every function virtual, then maybe. But at that point, you might as well just a different language.
You’re welcome to use whatever init system you want, but Systemd solves a lot of the bullshit problems and limitations that come from init.d init scripts. Systemd also has a lot of its own bullshit and bloat, but it does an excellent job at actually being an init system and service manager if you know how to properly use it.