It certainly isn’t when you’re spending more than that just to get exclusives.

You’re right. Hosting files is more difficult than creating art for the game. Steam deserves a bigger cut than artists.

Game files and updates need to be distributed

You also recognize that 30% of each game sale applies to each game sale, right?

Do you really think 30% of developing a game is hosting not just the original game, but also the updates and the save files? CDNs only make it cheaper.

Steam is able to charge 30% because they effectively have a walled garden on PC games. Very few publishers are well known enough to successfully sell their game outside of Steam.

It’s not as egregious as the Apple or Google stores, but they’re basically all in this together. It’s like the old mob families where they split territory.

most are quite happy with the services they get back from that 30% cut.

I agree with most of that, but this part just isn’t true. 30% is highway robbery. It’s a scam. But PC gamers are trained that Steam is where the games are, with few exceptions. If you don’t pay steam their cut, your game doesn’t sell at all.

Consider all that goes into development of a game and compare that to the effort/infrastructure to host a download and display a webpage. Is Steam really providing 30% of the game experience?

I think Steam could be profitable at less than a 10% cut.

legally required to increase the shareholders’ value.

First, this isn’t really true. Corporations are not required to increase shareholder value at any cost. Second, even if it were true, why would you still excuse those actions?

Disagree. I prefer XML for config files where the efficiency of disk size doesn’t matter at all. Layers of XML are much easier to read than layers of Json. Json is generally better where efficiency matters.

Why do you assume this has anything to do with a supply/demand curve? Because that’s the first thing you were taught in Econ 101 and it stuck?

In reality, most people aren’t that sensitive to small changes in price. And the demand drop is not instant. It might take months or years. Execs make the decision to raise the price, they don’t see the demand drop off immediately, and they instantly absolve themselves of any responsibility for the effects of their price increase. After all, there was hardly any demand drop in the quarter in which they made the change.

Look at say, Coca-Cola. You could easily double the price in five years and the price is negligible enough that most people won’t even notice. (Oh wait, they did this.)

They were legally not allowed to as part of an agreement to not be s monopoly and allow competition.

Meanwhile Trump’s syphilis riddled mind is sharp as a tack?

The dude literally wears diapers.

I don’t like Republicans either, but I still vote in the Republican primary. You have a duty to yourself and your country to vote.

If you don’t vote, you’re just allowing others to choose for you. How do you think that’s gonna go?

But also you should generally just pick a primary to vote in. You are voting in primaries, right?

C# is a better language anyway.

I expect the future is in Rust and C#.

I think that’s more about the scale than it is about the fediverse.

Effectively you’re asking about a quarter cup of water where the answer isn’t even clear. Wireless charging is a bit wasteful though.

I still appreciate your asking, because there’s been interesting discussion in the answers.

Seven years for a phone right now is pretty reasonable. For a laptop, it’s absolutely not.

Anyone who has services open to the internet sees constant attacks in their log files. I bet I could pull some attacks right now that are less than twenty minutes old.

fail2ban is a common software on Linux that helps defend against these attacks. When someone fails to log into your service three times, it bans their IP permanently. It’s generally issuing many bans a day.

They absolutely do scan every IP.

I’d rather add more Jira stories.

There’s an awful lot of political views around that aren’t tankie.

And it’s less about the users and more about the kind of lopsided, censorship moderation that happens on .ml

To brand the lemmy.ml as the censorship hell that it is.

“their breath” is the traditional end of that phrase.

For what? To keep track of who’s drinking coffee? Are you charging for coffee?