Ekaros

I would not want to run or pay for the datahoarder setup it would need. At least with not modern games by publishers. Size of games is rather big nowadays. Storing them and then storing incremental patches if those are wanted sounds like absolute pain I don't want to go into anymore. Whatever ownership perks it gives.

Steam just functions amazingly well with modern software release and use cadence.

People of certain age remember just how much pain the whole CD/DVD process was. Finding patches, having annoying DRM later... And then early download stores or having game specific launcher for every single game... Some of which worked okay... Some of those games don't even work anymore...

There is clearly user experience reason why Steam gained and hold so much ground. Things really were not better without it.

What I find weird is that these companies don't sound like they are run by bean counters... The budgets are something that sound absolutely insane if anyone who cared about costs were involved. It more sounds like they are run by empire builders and their legions of micromanaging middle-managers...

As long as share price goes up while you are there does anything else really matter?

Similar in Finland. Embalming is rather rare. And I think we know that bodies are supposed to naturally decompose once buried. Then again USA really seems to make absolutely everything as expensive as possible. While Europe is not exactly cheap at least it seems lot more reasonably priced.

You want them back to use very fast after they have certain amount of icing. So you want powerful heating elements there and those are cheap anyway. Fridge or freezer not in use doesn't make money in a store.

One of the saddest things with these companies is that they can't be "done". Run a sufficiently profitable business for long term. Instead it is always more growth. I think we could have companies that don't grow more than say inflation and still make reasonable profit. But sadly it is not enough so running them to ground is inevitable.

I think the pay in certain markets was mostly because companies had more money than sense. And then that spread... In most markets pay is not really that special compared to any other field with some education needed. And neither really is the work.

Well it is engineers fault. But not that engineers. Some engineer designed a system without extreme oversight that should be involved in the process.

I really wonder do they even audit the discussion outside their own comments. You can absolute notice how popular the option of not "auditing" code is in their AI-tribe. Best they do is have it review it or make tests... Not actually read the later either...

And then when someone does audit the stuff output is questionable... Telling that it is most likely not that brilliant.

I am thinking that just maybe the "load bearing" (for AI terms) components should have quite more oversight. Which might go away unless they are actually human authored...

Problem with those expensive treatments is that there are not that many cases. So profit from each is big but overall they add up to less. Getting everyone who can afford it on planet on some relatively cheap drug would be lot more profitable overall.

Get million out of thousand people or ten out of billion people... Later would be preferable.

Cell phone provider is funny one here. Effectively most efficient thing to do is to get a deal from competitor and then accept winback offer from them. You can not even properly negotiate for deals very often but somehow those winbacks end up being near best deals. Last time I got negative deal for them. Meaning my mobile and wired internet ended up less than wired internet was before...

I have sometimes observed that dinner plates are surprisingly expensive in pricing. Or at least sometimes they seem to. You do get really cheap ones too. But on average it seems many are quite or somewhat expensive.

Not getting yelled at most likely. There are enough vocal people who complain if these machines do not act "fair". So it often is easier just to change how they operate and not have to listen as much of that.

Sometimes I wonder about efficiency part. How efficient these big budget titles are? How much many man hours spend of them are actually waste? It does get to back to whole broken window thing. Demand was generate but was it usefully spend? Indie is most likely doing whole thing in much more efficient way. With slightly different product but still often something acceptable.

Is more jobs better than less jobs? Or does this apply to only certain things?

500 million sounds actually pretty cheap for amount of IP they must hold at this point. Some it very big some of it future potential. Even 800 million would have been cheap. They simply do have big catalog of things.

Isn't this exactly what certain webcomic authors wanted? The platforms are showing them the door. As they say if it is not government making the rules it is not censorship. It is something that some webcomic authors fully wanted and have actively supported politically.

Because that is where the existing roads, power and internet connections are. Might not be that significant investment to build those in context of scale. But still it simplifies many steps in building.

But LLMs can do that now? Surely you could only have one or a few people managing everything with them. Or just have them build code that fully automates also that. After all software should be solved issue. So no point of not automating software for all aspects needed and then letting LLMs handle the rest.

It is not anything special pretty much standard industrial forest in normal growthy cycle. Just that it seems some steps were skipped in the process.

It really seems to be weird model. Get a hit, get acquired, replace insert corporate culture. Which really doesn't work as most games are not tech products like others with continuous revenue.

It kinda works for those who get that one long term hit and after that can just deliver not much else...

Hundreds of kilometres of good quality electric railway infra is expensive to maintain. And by good quality I mean capable of relatively decent speeds like say 120-160 km/h. With airports you need to maintain lot less.

Just like software projects I want to see that company has been around for some time say at least 2 years. At that point it starts to look like they have committed to it over long term. Same would go for any SaaS proven track record of being in business.

Replacing something has cost involved and doing it too often will kill any savings. Which matters when you actually need to stay profitable.

Use some other marketplace. Offer some type of pre-order campaign. In the end that is not so many copies to sell via other ways if you have something good on your hands.

I still stand behind what I said back when they moved to direct publishing. Fee to get on Steam is too cheap. I think it is 100 dollars. Should have been five or ten times of that. And even then I suppose that would have slowed things only a bit.

Things will stabilise somewhere. Not sure at what population level and what technological level. But I am sure at some point they start to rise again. It won't be downward trend to zero for forever.

Also I have largely understood that they are not spending that much. They are not hundreds of billions in commitments. So they can just release stuff that have comparatively nothing spend on it and still garner value.

If them releasing their stuff openly burns down whatever the closed ecosystem is doing just maybe that closed ecosystem isn't that great. If something can't survive less resourced option making it stuff public maybe there is lot of wrong with that something.

Well it lasted 10 years less for pretty much same thing... Talking about my 27" 1440p monitor. Dell is still working. The 4 year old Asus have most likely some type of power issue and doesn't even want to start.

That is not lot of batteries is it? So range would be quite sad... Especially at racing speeds.