I’m sad that they had to use streamer cards as a way to sell their indie gam, because otherwise it does look kind of fun

Because every Mother’s Day has a mother’s night!

On the upside, maybe western youngsters value having a personal life they enjoy more.

You’re getting downvoted because the truth hurts. Most people are here are not devs on competitive games clearly. What sane developer would multiply their anticheat costs for .01% player growth?

It’s a network effect issue. More people need to game on Linux before it’s relevant enough to support for competitive multiplayer games. Same reason why Riot dropped it.

When people may get into a competitive game, data shows that they commit to it as their primary game.

It becomes a part of their identity. You see things like Leage of Legends going strong despite a slow down in new players - people just commit to it for better or for worse, likely because most of the skills they’ve gained in it and friends they’ve made will not transfer to other games. Even other FPS games have different nuances that are non trivial once a player becomes serious about winning.

Take Wild Rift vs Mobile Legends Bang Bang. MLBB is objectively a worse rip off of League of Legends and the Chinese game Glory of Kings, but it was first to market on mobile. Now that League has released their mobile version with immense polish and quality, many mobile moba gamers just aren’t interested - they’re already totally invested in their main game, despite it being proved in court that it’s a cheap copy. (Not cheap as in $$$ though)

When you’re a kid, spending time on any competitive game will be fun (if you can handle the baseline toxicity) since you will start bad at most of them. When you get older there is a real cost to switching, you will not have as much fun until you build up the years of muscle memory that would be needed to even approach your skill at the previous game.

Because of the lock in, if a competitive game finds a sizeable enough player base and lasts a good handful of years, the devs essentially get free rein to milk their cow as they see fit.

Power must be checked. Too many people slip into this abuser mindset when they have it. We only see a glimpse of what they do behind closed doors.

I don’t think it’s smart to bait Christians like this. It’s like pretending you also see a schizophrenic’s worst delusions.

Yes, both countries have serious problems. At least Americans can discuss theirs openly.

Yeah, those suck a lot, too

Fuck rent, but,

Rent > Intergenerational slave labor camps

If you crop his face it looks exactly like Joe Biden’s