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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by rootlocus on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:35AM (#18881651)
> Not really

For every person that buys directly from the developer, I expect there are several order of magnitudes more people that buy through steam. If you're a drop in the ocean, that doesn't count as "not really".

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by pjmlp on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:50AM (#18881681)
That is not the same as "So when people go to buy one more game... they go to Steam,".
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by jabberthemutt on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:14AM (#18881755)
Yes, it is. Language is a funny thing that overrules pedantic miniscule minorities.
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by pjmlp on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:21AM (#18882357)
Unless I got my Cambridge English somehow broken, "So when people go to buy one more game... they go to Steam", implies everyone does it, which isn't the case given that not everyone goes to Steam.

To state otherwise, it should have been written as "So when people go to buy one more game... the majority goes to Steam".

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by rootlocus on Friday January 11, 2019 @10:44AM (#18884255)
I think this kind of pedantry is unnecessary because there are very few absolute statements, so decorating everything with a quantifier to imply room for error is redundant.

Also, the argument that a statement implies 100%, but it's actually a slightly smaller percentage is very weak, especially in online forums where people don't write legalese.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by loup-vaillant on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:47AM (#18883158)
No, it implies that almost everyone goes to Steam.
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by pjmlp on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:30AM (#18883430)
So my English is broken...
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