All true, but too many people tend to forget that the very first game in the world of console generation to have online cross play was Fortnite for Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox.

Also, Sony and Microsoft held back PUBG crossplay in the very momentum in which battle royale was exploding (ignited by PUBG itself)

I don’t disagree with Tim regarding Google or Apple; but I am not throwing those three names randomly. Xbox, Switch and Playstation are console that allowed crossplay for Fortnite (PUBG had to wait behind Fornite for Sony and Microsoft allow crossplay later: Sweeney surely don’t forget friends that helped beat the competition) before anybody else. While Apple argued that their business model is similar to console, he choose to defend Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo: try ask him to lower the 30% for those three… and you’ll see what he’ll say to you.

As for Stram… well, I am a big supporter for Itch and (partially, due to their murky position towards Linux: “all DRM free but your Windows license” it seems); I think Steam need competition (such as PC hardware like SteamDeck where the OEM can customize freely without having to obey Microsoft); in fact, Epic Game Store is rowing in the opposite direction! Many indie are wondering why they should support Itch and GoG “for free” while Epic pay them for exclusivity!

Well, I think that, for developers, Itch and GoG are their “contract leverage” to push Valve around; and the role Epic is taking is:

1. indie developers are less motivated to support Itch.io
2. exacerbated tone Tim is against Linux… it’s pushing Linux developers towards Steam

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are fine tho.

Epic profittability is on Fortnite; there will be lot of skin based on Alan Wake franchise and, also, Fortnite ads everytime you launch AW2 form their launcher etc.

…as for Alan Wake franchise itself, well it goes in the epic games store marketing black hole

I don’t see why you may need/wait for my permission: go straight away and link as much relevant content you find, it will improve lemmy fediverse community overall

Google/Alphabet is working its magic to protect youtube from being for what it became successful freely available to everyone from everywhere; so it’s getting difficult to solve a redirect with a clean link. Anyway, I always place the original youtube link in case something don’t work; but still looking for a better solution.

I think GTAV was sold… 3, 5 times to the same person? PS3, Xbox360, PS4, XboxOne, Epic Exclusive, PS4pro, PC, XboxS, PS5, PS5pro

They can arise the price to whatever they want; I am now only interested into Indie or “patient gamers” things; between GTA and CoD franchises the AAA gaming looks more like some sort of onlyfans for a very specific group of paying simp.

Yeah, they are from a fist, kick and melee combat game where they perform maneuver that would easily cripple or kill people in real life; but sex is amoral.

jiggle physics daughters, to be precise.

By the way. that was settled long time ago…

If you buy and Nvidia card you “pay” for DLSS, since it works by using specific material hardware inside the GPU for the job.

If you buy a Intel or AMD GPU you don’t neither pay for FSR and XESS