“Why can we find old books for free, but not games?!”
Because copyright for anything created after 1978 is 70 years + the life of the creator.
Anything created before 1978 has a copyright of 95 years.
The “oldest” video game is Space War, made in 1962. That’s not even 60 years yet.

I’ll have to find it, but the other day there was a former developer talking about the actual effects of piracy. Basically, if the game is still being made, then yes, pirates are absolutely causing damage to sales, just not as much as the publishers claim they are. They stated that any excuse you’re giving yourself,…

Except its more than that. You have to pay them to be allowed to discount your game.

Problem is, PAX draws from around the country and the world. Yeah, Seattle’s at 70% but I suspect there’s a huge number of out of towners going to show up. PAX is a notorious place for con crud, hell, it got bird flu one year and the term “PAX Pox” exists for a reason.

Pixel tends to get updates/upgrades long before the rest of the Android systems do. They call it part of the deal, I call it you get to be the unpaid testers.

Sony depends on the console. The PS3 didn’t lose loss leader status until 2-3 years in (it took a long time for the blu-ray tech price to drop), PS4 after a year and a half and the PS5 will likely be longer than both because of the chip shortage. ALL loss leader hardware will eventually stop being a loss leader as the…

Capcom launched their own retro game app, so they can charge you directly for those games with the Capcom Arcade Stadium (Final Fight has the distinction of showing up in two different places on the switch, as it also shows up in the Capcom Beat ‘em Up Bundle). Sega has its own retro game collection. The reason you…

So much for the idea of freedom of religion huh? “You can only practice when we say you can practice!”
Also, they did it in the middle of the day, so I’m going to go with “they just felt like it”
Israel’s death count is still 1. Palestinian is in the 200s.
Israel is a country run by an extremist backed by even worse…

Two things, and you won’t like either one.
First: this time starts because Israel decided to shut down a mosque and the police fired tear gas and smoke bombs into a house of worship that was in session. That’s reprehensible. The UN has also determined that Israel attacked a building in all this to shut down the media…

What’s the point of about half the stuff Apple has brought up?
Can you identify a PS5?
What is a game? (A question the Apple guy failed miserably).
Does Epic sell “unspeakble” games because you can buy from itch.io via Epic?

Man, you guys should cover when Apple’s Trystan Kosmynkawas asked why games like Roblox and Minecraft are allowed to break all the rules that Epic got kicked off for and apple said “Because they aren’t games.”

http://blog.wolfire.com/2021/05/Regarding-the-Valve-class-action

Difference here is you aren’t forced to buy the games from Sony/Microsoft directly. It’s most likely going to be the loophole that let’s the consoles off the hook. If I want a game, I can go to a video game store and buy a PS/XB game and play it. This is also true with digital games on XB (Sony is currently being sued…

Nintendo has long claimed that it never sells a console at a loss, not at first. They admitted they had to with the 3DS, since people thought it was too expensive at launch, but they’ve never had the problem before or since.

HAve you watched their (Gearbox) and his twitter? They re-tweet the job openings every now and then.

What they’ve done that anti-competitive? They’ve told developers that they have to price match other sites or not list on other sites, which prevents competition (and if you want examples of that, read both the Epic and Humble Bundle lawsuits, both contain lots of examples.) Do they always get removed? No, most often…

Steam doesn’t have timed exclusives because 70% of ALL games on Steam are exclusive. Just because they don’t advertise it, doesn’t mean its not true.

“They quickly stopped doing that and have since allowed developers and publishers to generate Steam keys for free and distribute them however they see fit.”
This is untrue. Humble Bundle has sued Steam for this, along with other things. Not only that, the key drops from Scavengers just days ago counters this. They…

Using your own logic, Steam used to “bribe” developers in the same way, only they didn’t use money, they used threats. When Steam started out and a few other, now mostly forgotten other digital game market places started to rise up, Steam went to developers and said “We have the most users, either you list with us and…

Probably never. A lot of games are steam “exclusive”, steam just doesn’t pay for it and doesn’t advertise it, though a bunch of smaller devs have admitted it (because of the way the steam agreement is set up, they’d have to pay steam in order to list their game on Epic). So Epic will keep advertising it, because to…