Fair points, yes, but I was speaking within the context of companies that are actually producing handheld PCs. None of the other potentially capable companies you’ve mentioned have shown any indication that they care to enter the space.

The big question with that plan, though, is what’s in it for Valve/Epic? Valve has no incentive to let anyone else in on their cut, and Epic’s is so low already there wouldn’t be any room to let anyone else in on it with them.

I suppose Epic could try to get a deal in place where EGS is installed as the default store on the Ally or Legion, but it’s not like anyone’s going to just stick with the default - first thing anyone will do is just install Steam, and everyone knows it. I don’t see a way for a deal like that to make sense for Epic to even bother with.

Author can’t seem to understand that Valve’s the only company that can properly do the console-style “subsidize hardware cost based on the cut you’ll get from selling the games” method in the PC space. Asus, Lenovo, Ayaneo - they don’t have the luxury of maybe taking a bit of a haircut on the hardware and then more than making it up on the back end via software sales. They only get paid for the initial sale and then they’re done, so their devices are going to have to be more expensive.

Big agree, but that particular snake’s in the Senate rather than the House.

If we could set a new precedent — especially from individuals in the House who have tried to fight the status quo — that the House does not welcome liars, fraudsters and people who have made a mockery of the institution.

Okay, so get Santos out, then do Bobo, Marge, Gaetz, and Gym Jordan.

Why should it matter which launcher I use?

This is answered in the OP article itself:

Why don’t some publishers do this? The reasoning is pretty simple really: Valve take a cut of all sales on Steam, including DLC and micro-transactions. So if you purchased directly before, publishers will want to keep you there so any extras you purchase don’t get a cut eaten by Valve.

Every shot a team takes is assigned a score from 0 to 1 based on how likely it is that someone would score from where/how that shot was taken. For example, a penalty kick counts as 0.79 xG because PKs score roughly 79% of the time. Shots from within the 18 yard box are generally going to have a higher xG score than those from outside the box. Shots from in the 6 are going to be even higher, etc.

So the full-time xG scores presented here are the total of all the xG scores of all the shots that both teams took. We didn’t have very high quality shots throughout the game. City had slightly better, but still not great.

Going purely off the history/stats of similar shots to what both teams took, it was fairly unexpected for either team to have scored a goal in the match, which I think was kinda borne out by the eye test, and the fact that our one goal only came from fluking in off of Ake’s face.

Further reading: https://theanalyst.com/na/2023/08/what-is-expected-goals-xg

With Partey being the one who sent it up to Tomi. It was the substitutes show!

Premier*

Imagine thinking anyone knows or cares what currency you’re talking about when you don’t bother to specify.

The website you linked doesn’t account for Gamepass discounts.

You’re making your case even worse. I like consoles, but arguing that paying a monthly fee to get a 20% discount is better than the regular deep discounts that PC games get is laughable.

I got Dredge on Xbox for $12, lowest its been on PC is $25.

What are you even talking about? $25 is the base price on PC; are you claiming that it’s literally never been on sale on the platform? Because that’s obviously, hilariously, wrong.

Meanwhile, the lowest it seems to have gotten on Xbox is $20 (check the History tab there - I can’t find a way to link directly to it).

The dude you’re arguing with is an absolute toolbag with his blind PCMR bullshit, but you aren’t helping the case against him by spewing blatant bullshit of your own.

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doesn’t look that way though.

That’s exactly what it is, though. It’s satire, and tells you as much right in the first paragraph of the “About” page:

Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.

It looks more modern

Not OP, but as an old.lemmy.world user myself, this is not a selling point.

i just want to know how people think this could work in a way that balances out

They don’t. They just think content is generated in a vacuum and it’s their right to consume it in whatever way they see fit.

if Sweeney ever loses a controlling amount of shares to them

To be clear, he can’t “lose” shares to them. He might willingly sell shares to them (although that’s unlikely as he’s shown no indication of giving anyone else control over the company thus far), but it’s a private company - the shares aren’t just out there for Tencent to buy up and force a takeover.

Man, Gamers™ get fuckin’ vicious when it comes to things like this that make them click different icons than the ones they like. It’s pretty gross.

*cries in FF6*

Not only the same, but better. Epic will automatically just refund you the difference if a game you bought goes on sale within a certain period of time after your purchase (allegedly even beyond the two week refund window, although I haven’t been able to find any definitive statement of how long they watch it for). Just flat out, you get an email one day telling you they’ve credited back X amount of your purchase.

Also pretty sure there are cloud saves but less confident on that one.

There are. For more than four years now. The problem is that, just like with Steam, they can only put the option out there - it’s up to devs to actually implement it. And there are a lot of devs who haven’t done so, which lots of people interpret as EGS not having cloud saves at all.

Although, of course, it’d be cool if Steamworks would work for non-steam games at least for modding/multiplayer.

That’s the point. No, nobody’s forcing them to use Steamworks (especially since Epic has rolled out their cross-platform, store-and-OS-agnostic free competitor to it), but anyone who chooses to do so (which is a lot of devs) ends up locking those features to Steam (barring a ton of extra work for themselves) simply because of Valve’s chosen policy.

Don’t think Valve doesn’t understand this. They found a way to get devs to all but lock their games to Steam and thank Valve for the opportunity to do it.