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  • crossmr@kbin.runtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Take Two warns investors that review bombings can hurt profits
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    5 months ago

    Your claim was that it never happened, this was just a single well known example of it happening.

    At that point, Valve says a team of people will investigate those anomalies, and, if they determine that something fishy is afoot, they’ll “mark the time period it encompasses and notify the developer.” If Valve finds that coordinated review bombing has indeed occurred, any reviews posted during that time period won’t count toward the game’s review score.

    Also it isn’t fully automatic. Valve claims that people are involved ‘evaluating it’, and the result of the evaluation was that reviews were not counted.

  • crossmr@kbin.runtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they have never played.
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    6 months ago

    It’s not insinuating anything like that. It’s stating a simple fact that they got 6 Billion dollars for basically zero effort and resources. All of the things you’ve described are to allow people to buy more games. They cement valve simply as a store front and platform but not a game developer.

    This is the point as to why Half life and most other games were basically dropped. Valve made 6 billion in passive income while trying to build a game selling and delivery platform. Even the best game in the world isn’t going to make that kind of income and it’s likely to take more effort than what they’ve done already.

  • crossmr@kbin.runtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they have never played.
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    6 months ago

    This isn’t anyone playing anything. This is a story about how people bought $19 billion worth of games and then never played them (which would suggest they likely never downloaded them either). Valve made over $6 billion and used no more resources than serving up the store page and the payment processing.

    and this is why Valve is in no rush to pump out games like they used to. Why they have no real burning desire to continue half life. They made enough money to keep the lights on indefinitely by doing no more than simply letting an automatic process run that any first year web developer could set up.

  • crossmr@kbin.runtoLinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•Cold calls aren't spam!
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    6 months ago

    B2B contact is generally fine, unless you’re going to be a stalker about it. Had one the other day who messaged me on linkedin with her pitch and included the standard ‘If you have time and this is interesting feel free to reach out’ I saw the e-mail pop up just as I was stepping away to have lunch, as it was the standard lunch time. Before I even got downstairs (work from home) my company’s calling me out of the blue to tell me they have a call for me from this person. I declined the call, as we both agreed it was just business spam and after lunch responded and let them know we’d never be interested in their services. ‘Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested’ and ‘I’m going to track down your company’s phone number and call you 30 seconds after I send this’ just don’t vibe for me.

  • crossmr@kbin.runOPtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•There needs to be actual content rules. TIL worked best when the mods actually adhered to those content rules. Otherwise you just have people posting all kinds of nonsense. Quality is better than
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    6 months ago

    @pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de These all amount to nothing more than, TIL X exists. The problem with posts like these, is that if you can sit there and write endless posts just like it, it’s not really a good post. TIL about fir trees, TIL about car tires, TIL about weed trimmers, TIL about Disney land, etc. etc. etc. etc.

    TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders.

    This doesn’t start with TIL and doesn’t really sound like a TIL at all:

    https://kbin.run/m/til@lemmy.world/t/492996/What-Do-Neural-Networks-Really-Learn-Exploring-the-Brain-of#comments

    We then have topics which are vague and don’t really tell us anything.

    TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity

    This is just presented in non-neutral way, and has been posted dozens or even hundreds of times over at reddit, so much so that it’s on their repost list:

    TIL this Fun Fact: Unfortunately, Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth

    Clickbait style submissions like this:

    TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey’s selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.

    In this kind of submission the user is telling us about an event, without actually telling us the outcome of that event. It’s unclear exactly what ‘fact’ it is they’ve learned, beyond ‘an event happened’, it’s delayed news at best. A much better TIL would be about the outcome of the trial and what legal implications that has.

    Topics like this are just written to say LOL These people are stupid:

    TIL the US government once banned sliced bread

    and are missing crucial context in the title like the fact that it happened during WW2 when there were shortages.

    TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine

    This is literally related to a current on-going international conflict and politics and seems to be written to support an agenda. There are reasons they have a rule about no news, and no political posts.

    At least this place isn’t as bad as a TIL I saw on another instance that seems to do little more run a bot to repost submissions from Reddit