When you see some rich person now who comes out and all of the sudden has lost a ton of weight, yea, it's ozempic. That or cancer, I guess, but you don't update your company profile pic as you are ravaged with a terminal disease. I think.
A rich person on this level can get in shape easily without drugs. Pay a chef to cook all your meals so they're perfectly calculated to your needs and delicious. Pay a personal trainer to tell you exactly what to do and when. Literally all you have to do is just follow simple directions and try.
Because Steam IS good. You say that this 30% is not going anywhere, that is false because you just have to look at what Steam offers compared to any other store (whether on consoles or PC for that matter) to understand that they invest heavily in their platform. The fact that you can buy a game and after 2 hours, no matter what, refund it is nice. Or the forum, which are a mine of information to the point that they are used by games that are not even on Steam. Steam is also very straightforward to send a clear message to a developer/publisher who has done shit by using these forums or rating negatively.
I'm not saying Steam isn't a good store. I just don't know if you were really grappling with the point I was making. In a future where more people migrate to PC, sacrificing 30% of the industry to a company that doesn't reinvest any of that into games is just funneling money out. They could take 5% of all sales and be able to update their store however they want and be fabulously wealthy.
I really hope it's not Ozempic. There's a world of difference between being healthy and looking healthy.
Funny how this has been known since ancient times but people will do whatever it takes to circumvent it. Eat well and exercise regularly. Boom. There is no super duper secret remedy or some hidden medical paradigm that we need to discover.
I agree with the part about investing everything in a single platform that is too dependant on a single person and has an unkown future. Though, it's a great platform with many benefits so it's also easy to see why people prefer it. I don't agree with the part about the 30% going nowhere. Valve has done more for PC gaming over the years than anyone else and continues to do so. From turning pirates into gamers, giving the consumer power with a great refund policy to managing to make linux gaming almost plug and play. Without Valve and Gabe PC gaming would probably be an afterthought right now, which is why mentioning Spencer in the same stence is just heresy as he did the opposite, getting something very popular and making it irrelevant over the years.
Maybe all these rich people decided at exactly the same time to lose all this weight, and it just so happened to coincide with the arrival of a new much-hyped "wonder drug" that helps people lose weight, but they ignored that drug and decided to eat light and exercise. Or maybe they're just taking the damn drug.
But do you have actual numbers to back those claim? Because running a store like Steam is costing a lot of money. Of course, Valve is not to complain and I agree that they could reduce the 30%, still they are the best right now.
I once saw a list of all the features Valve has added to Steam over the prior whatever years, and it was a huge list. Objectively they plow a lot more of this money into the service than companies like Epic and MS do. To say that Valve isn't reinvesting "any" of that into games is just false. Not to mention that by releasing stuff like Steam Deck, they open up a whole new market for the game makers to sell to. I bet a LOT of games have been sold just because people want games that play well on Steam Deck.
No I don't have numbers especially since they're not even a publicly listed company, I just know that even last place Xbox store does a lot of the same assistance stuff for developers, hosting downloads, cloud saves, family sharing, remote and cloud, and puts out hardware sold at a loss and funds a lot of games and they don't have the sales numbers Steam has. Anyway, just sharing my thoughts on it. PC gamers are clearly happy with the arrangement.
That comparison is biased at best. Xbox Store doesn't offer 1/4 of what Steam does, the store is a joke and is still horrible to use on PC despite years of disponibility. It's an insult to just put them in the same sentence.
My first thought too.
Like Iwata, although he wasn't what you'd call fat to begin with, cancer just whittled him down to nothing. -_-
Sure is. Wife has done it for a month and lost 25 lbs.
Now make games, you don't have excuses anymore.
That is all. Continue.
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That can happen if they get gastric bypass unfortunately.
