~~*Microsot's videogame business may had been up because they bought videogame business such as ZeniMax/Bethesda/IDSoftware, Activision/Blizzard and Mojang/Minecraft.~~
alessandro
Crazy the first time I saw this thing was a random game (featured) on Itch.io
VAT in Australia is 10% (ref), but there are other things that effect the overall price (company's obligation, regulations etc.)
You may eared it as Lumberyard, a game engine made by Amazon (after buying a CryEngine's license) GamefromScratch
...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.
Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.
There's also a modest proposal for those into satire.
People generally loving, generally hating.
Valve is not that good if you take your time to realize few things more, Valve is not that bad if you take time to realize few things more.
For example, you can't say that Ubisoft can be that bad if you take a look at the industrial grade artistic output (allow you travel and interact with artistically astonishing worlds).
But when you check side as business entity, you can see everything is set up to please share holders and people that don't even know "what's a minecraft?".
Valve knows how, when and why they mess with their customers. Ubisoft is just clueless about their gamer-customers because they known only theirs shareholders-customers.
To people talking about "sinking ship". I don't think that's it.
This is regular "I bought the IPs and customers perception of your history, not the actual human value of actual creators" from Microsoft.
Microsoft need the "CoD concepts" that force their platform (whatever Xbox/Windows may be) in the industry; anything else, doesn't matter.
You get the lemmy crosspost link, and thus Lemmy discussions, from modern source; instead the combines history of all Lemmy posts from years ago.