AI was telling other people’s customers that we owned the other company at some point, so their customers were coming to us for support and telling us that we had to support them

And I’m constantly arguing with idiots who use AI.

Good

It’s the same cost as a car and high profit

It should deserve a bit more support then only 3-6 years

I got rid of my Xbox because steam felt better and Xbox still doesn’t have VR

The price hike didn’t really affect me tbh

Firefox. They basically were the ones who kicked off good browsers originally

They started selling 7 years ago the Mac Pro… but, only stopped selling 3 years ago apparently. Microsoft offered 10 years of support for Windows 10, and Ubuntu even offers 15 years.

Apple generally classes their products vintage after 6-7 years…

Normally, I’d say “fine”, but, this is now the second time they’ve done this within 20 years (they did it with the PPC -> Intel too), and the exact same way, and not all new apps are generally backwards compatible with the old CPU architecture either. So realistically, a lot of people are forced to upgrade regardless.

The Mac mini… Fair enough, its cheap. But, the Mac Pro was ridiculously overpriced (even the wheels cost $700 lol). You had to even pay extra money for 3 years of HARDWARE warranty.

The reality is, nobody knows is the Asahi breakage was intentional or not at this time. All we know is that Apple has contributed absolutely sweet F*** all to asahi Linux (despite it benefiting Apple primarily). The timing is interesting though…

They stopped selling the last Mac Pro and mac mini 3 years ago… So literally, their top end computer had 3 years of support of the latest OS (if you bought at the end of the cycle). And, they pulled this same BS from PPC to Intel, so, its not the first rug pull. And, its not like Windows hasn’t maintained excellent backwards compatibility otherwise (they still offer windows 95 backwards compatibility in a lot of cases in the latest OS). In fact, if your computer supports it, you also got a free upgrade to Windows 11 .

In this case, the Intel Macs include a T2 chip, so, its not like there is a valid security reason to break MacOS… They literally just blatantly screwed them (the Mac Pro was NOT a cheap computer).

Coincidenally, MacOS 27 beta breaks Linux too. https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi .

This is one of the reasons why I stopped buying Mac’s.

Apple talks a lot of trash about windows and Linux, but both offer far better long term support

And they seem to spend a huge amount on advertising too. More than anyone else I’ve seen

Yeah. They literally could upgrade the system to broadcast to the car radio, or, just upgrade the audio …

If I ever broke the main controller on my Wii U (which Nintendo shut off online services for now) you needed to buy an entire new console

Another factor though was that I don’t need to play yet another Mario sequel. As a character, he’s actually not that interesting (and a bit of a cuck if we’re being honest)

I used to be loyal to Nintendo

No idea why anyone still supports them after the joycons were never really fixed on switch 1

Didn’t even notice it

I have no idea why there hasn’t been criminal investigations of reddit

There were basically childporn subs in the past, and a lot of incitement of criminal behavior.

They’ve gotten away with a lot

The electric motor is watching you?

My go pro broke.

At this point, I just use my phone, and there are cheaper options

Also, when I see a fish eye lens in a video, I switch off immediately, because I know immediately that what I’m watching is heavily exaggerated

Well fuck

I grew up on games which shared the same monitor playing with my brother. Some were shared control where mouse and keyboard were simply split to do slightly different things

Apparently they weren’t multiplayer though. Despite there being 2 players controlling the same game.i literally have examples of games where nobody needs to compete

Nevermind the fact that the API allows entirely independent handling of controls too so it’s not the same as pure streaming.

It’s a great idea to anyone who knows about it

I’m not responding again… At the end of the day , people can check the links I sent to get the actual facts.

The only thing that happened is that I widened the goalposts because I thought of it more and games I have played to include even more things other than the original things I thought of.

Good luck with your crusade.

If you say so. Lol

No. SteamWorks only provides matchmaking and listing, not hosting.

And streaming/shared screen apparently. And input control over the internet (which addresses 2 major issues). So, you were wrong… You just didn’t anticipate it would change the context of the game so you only need to deal with it on a local level (which is actually brilliant)

Just admit its a cool feature. You don’t need to give a shit about steam to admit that.

What do you call it when 2 different players are controlling a game… The term is multiplayer. And I even gave examples of games (like Proverb), where real multiplayer would be very trivial to add using this. Not every multiplayer game needs to be split screen, or totally independent (particularly casual gaming).

Play together.

You can get it direct from the features page of the steam works api

Where can you buy games where you don’t provide that info?

You’d need it any time they pay by credit card

If it wasn’t steam you’d be likely cheering it

I gave you a list of practical examples, you’re now pretending they don’t count.

Even ignoring my examples, it’s still easier to develop online support for any local multiplayer game because it allows you basically deal with the game on a local level instead of worrying as much about dealing with the online aspect

It doesn’t have to solve every problem. But there is no solution that does

Like I said, I only found out from a developer who used it for their game. So this isn’t me guessing, but from a developer who seemed pretty f’ing amazed by it. And I researched it soon after