I don’t actually, hence why I stipulated more than a few thousand speakers

I think people are over estimating how long 100 years is.

No languages that are currently spoken by more than a couple thousand people are going to go extinct that quickly.

Remember 100 years is in the upper end of a human life span.

Hey man, if you don’t want to engage in good faith, it’s better not to engage at all.

Again you’re only listen to a part of what I’m saying to make it more convenient to argue against.

Pc part picker is not a distributer with a functional monopoly on the pc hardware market, nor are AMD Nvidia and Intel small indie teams. That’s the key here.

Steam use their position as THE retailer of PC games as leverage to make small indie Devs put their games on ridiculous sales even when they don’t want to, just to get featured, in order to benefit themselves by being the place that has the crazy sales.

If you want a more apt example think of companies that use unpaid or underpaid inters for work in return for “the exposure” it’s very similar and widely considered exploitative.

You consider sales to be equivalent to sweat shops?

No, what I said was you can use that same logic to justify sweatshops. That does not mean I think they are equivalent.

The problem is the coercion, steam tells smaller indie Devs that they basically have to agree to massive sales in order to get their game seen.

And why would consumers who are trying to get the most value for their money care about that financial aspect? They aren’t a business. They are consumers looking for deals.

Sure if you don’t give a shit about other people, and then you can use the same logic to justify sweatshop clothes and any other shitty businesses practice you like.

Or Disney just learned to pander to Tumblr users

Unscientific in a different way, but I think the universe is basically a digestive organ for some impossibly unknowable, incredible higher dimension being.

Like the big bang is when it feeds or otherwise takes in energy, then as trillions of years pass and entropy takes hold that is it effectively digesting that energy.

That works when we’re talking about big businesses and AAA games, but the problem is when we consider indie developers, who struggle to get attention so are pressured into putting their game on sale when they don’t want to just get some attention.

I worked for a game developer for 4 years

And maybe if you studied beyond highschool level you would be aware this is a well studied thing in economics. If you sell a priority service and there is a limit to the resource in some way you are shutting out the people that don’t pay. Like its the same problem as dating apps that sell priority matching, if enough people buy I to it you either have to buy into it as well just to get a fair chance, or except you will never get seem.

Yes the Devs that buy into it get more sales. The entire point is it works for those people, if it didn’t they would have no reason to buy into it. But the people who don’t buy into it are then inherently disadvantaged.

I thought about mentioning factorio in the original comment, but yeah as you say there is some exception, factorio. Being wildly popular and the game that more or less birthed an entire genre helps and even if you don’t play the same game it’s still entirely possible to succeed through word of nouth. But for less popular indie games it’s still true.

Reminder that steam strong arms indie Devs into doing these big sales in order to give them visibility on the Steam store.

Basically if you don’t do sales Steam wont show your game to anyone.

Whoever made this meme doesn’t live in a city where new houses are bought up to be turned into shitty airbnbs

So who’s going to post the unicode characters so we can copy paste it?

I know this is the wrong place for this but I like edge.

I am again azking people to not call any woman with black hair a goth.

I’m not Irish?

We live in a post-sstire world

Modern Japanese houses aren’t made of paper