You just said free games were bad 3 times with no justification lmao. Like you said it as a building block to a larger point that never landed, then described it as a horrible practice. What horrible practice are you specifically complaining about?
A loss leader is standard business practice across all businesses. Steam became the defacto pc game page by the use of extreme sales, undercutting their competitors. Do you think they are equally evil?
You’re raging about a publisher providing deals to games that are done selling and helping them get some extra coverage.
Your solution is how you would rather people steal from the developers because that is a better way of supporting them. Your reasoning is that Epic under pays them, while your solution is to pay them nothing.
You seem to have learned its definition from Ms. Morissette.
But if it helps, it’s not ironic to use Free Open Source Software-based, donation-supported platforms to call out capitalist practices by for profit corporations that one doesn’t like.
You just said free games were bad 3 times with no justification lmao. Like you said it as a building block to a larger point that never landed, then described it as a horrible practice. What horrible practice are you specifically complaining about?
A loss leader is standard business practice across all businesses. Steam became the defacto pc game page by the use of extreme sales, undercutting their competitors. Do you think they are equally evil?
Loss leaders aren’t bad.
Epic games is bad and their loss leaders support them, which is bad.
You’re raging about a publisher providing deals to games that are done selling and helping them get some extra coverage.
Your solution is how you would rather people steal from the developers because that is a better way of supporting them. Your reasoning is that Epic under pays them, while your solution is to pay them nothing.
The irony in this tantrum hurts to read.
My solution is to pay for the games I want on Steam. Which is only possible for me when Epic doesn’t force exclusivity.
Other people can choose as they like.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch unless it’s FOSS.
I had no idea this would be controversial on lemmy.
They said from their free Lemmy account lmao
And I absolutely love the bit about them invading the apple ecosystem. You have the strangest loyalties on who is allowed to abuse capitalism.
Do you know what FOSS stands for?
Do you know what irony is?
You seem to have learned its definition from Ms. Morissette.
But if it helps, it’s not ironic to use Free Open Source Software-based, donation-supported platforms to call out capitalist practices by for profit corporations that one doesn’t like.