The headline said exactly everything you ranted about, except in a bite-sized way. Like a headline is intended to.

Just as a curiosity thing, what made you switch to iOS, knowing this?

Honestly asking as an iOS user, who owned an Android first, what did I win? I don’t play Fortnite and don’t care about Epic at all. In fact, I don’t buy things through apps much at all, but I do want my apps to be secure. I don’t see having external links to additional payment systems as improving app security.

The scenario where developers can abuse this change is highly unlikely.

Well, they tend to charge a listing fee. So they get money off of that. They can charge for dev support. They could start requiring apps to be a minimum price.

Apple and Google built app stores with a commercial model that shares app revenues - big / successful developer gets 70%, small dev gets 85%. Epic etc. want to use the app store but not share revenues, courts agree it’s unfair. So Apple/Goog will now adjust their commercial model - charging for use of the platform =…

Everyone is highlighting the anti-steering provisions, which will hurt Apple’s bottom line, though probably not as much as people think if users are given a choice between the developer payment system and Apple’s. But Apple did secure a big win in the corp being ruled anti-monopolist. THAT would have far-reaching…

Sure can. And if your opinion fucks with business operations, you’ll likely receive fallout from it.

When you are a leader, your opinions reflect on those who chose you to lead. When your opinions include the ‘opinion’ that anyone with a uterus should be -forced- to carry a pregnancy to term, you are a disgusting person and deserve every consequence of voicing your disgusting view.

That’s in the first chapter of “How to be a CEO for Idiots”; don’t fuck over the company. Seriously, the guy managed to cause irreparable harm to Tripwire with a single tweet. If that’s not reason enough to kick an executive to the curb then I don’t know what is. Especially since he could have said nothing and still…

You’re conflating these instances. In one its an internal discussion about events that may be modern politics, job dynamics, compensation, etc. — This is for management and the employees to discuss what’s going on and come to something that may benefit them and the company.

Explain to me how this man’s opinion has endangered anybody? Explain to me how this is going to affect the gameplay of the current game? That after that explained to me how any of this is relevant to a gamer.

Are those not available via any number of sites on the internet?

Wot?
A bit rubbish of an article, no?

This article alone is offensive in itself because it assumes that everyone talking with those phrases with this “ableist” mentality in the forefront to intentionally be mean towards others.

Funny how OED definitions are quoted when they seem to support the thesis and then ignored when they do not - us/don’t us but quit pretending that these words are magical and contain some hidden insult because someone [yeah-you] decided that they did

You’re not saving $40 anyway, you’re saving whatever market or sale price you’d otherwise buy it at. Right now console copies go for indie prices, which seems pretty comparable to me.

GOG tends to have giveaways during big sales, though.

I very clearly explained what I could only see as a willing and deliberate misinterpretation of their words. They wanted to ensure the games on display were representative and inclusive. Of course all the games would be “wholesome” - that would be the point.

They are not suggesting anywhere that games which are inclusive towards queer POC must be wholesome to be valid; they are creating a space for wholesome games *which are also* inclusive towards LGBT+ and BIPOC.

I think musicians should get paid for their work.