I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.

But a lot of the reason games aren’t successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert over-stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.

But what it often comes down to is if what you’re selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.

Absolutely true.

I believe it was their attempt to protect children from unknown people online. I have the app and one of the features is that you can talk to people online in certain games (Animal Crossing, Splatoon, SSB’s, Mario Kart, and I think Mario Party).

Edit: I’d also like to point out that those accessory mics didn’t work with first party games to my knowledge.

There was some public outcry about it specifically from parents who had to download said app and let their kids use it for games. You could later use accessories that would add a mic but it was limited.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Troubleshooting/How-to-Use-Voice-Chat-Using-the-Nintendo-Switch-App-1442573.html?srsltid=AfmBOor7pvIPB7U5tAiGPZalHfrOmwWvHmZgM4CCYId0-773YzAv81Y0

https://www.kentfaith.ca/blog/article_how-to-use-microphone-on-nintendo-switch_2740?srsltid=AfmBOopExBS39Dzz0C-Uuhv8x2QNd3yUnGlLgxaiV1WLLTkqEVeAdg5d

Haven’t you heard. Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably.

Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games. Humble bundle? Runs sales events where these games get showcased. Itch.io’s whole schtick is selling indie games.

It’s nice that Valve gives studios a platform to help market their games and all that, and yes, by dint of being one of the largest gaming sale platforms out there launching on steam helps their chances. But most of them weren’t ever gonna reach the success of AAA titles regardless and we pretend that that’s Valve’s fault for reasons I have never understood.

It’s the same problem with each of the online stores including the Nintendo E-Shop. Your game still has to be decent and be marketed to the people who want to play it.

Additionally they have to have time to play it. Which means you’re fighting every other game in the category in order to claim each players time.

There’s a whole lot to making and marketing a successful game at literally every level and not every studio can be a Team Cherry.

Switch OG doesn’t have a mic and that’s the reason they included the phone app. There were a fair number of aftermarket accessories that had mics though but I can’t say any of them were implemented to use first party games.

Then they should have to explain under what law or suspected crime he was detained and his phone was taken as evidence.

Because otherwise they can’t prove he deleted evidence of a suspected crime. So what is the suspected crime?

They don’t explain enough about the circumstances of the arrest or how the phone was wiped. As far as I’m concerned that’s probably because the law enforcement entity mismanaged the situation and supposed “evidence” and are now trying to pin whatever they can on the guy.

It’s stupid that they can just do this with no actual evidence and just an accusation with no factual information provided.

That’s my comfort lemon husk.

Same. My pro 9 is fine. My pixel 8 had the vertical line and they replaced the whole device for free.

Look at him trying to keep the wave going.

Yeah pretty much. Display port is just as good but there aren’t really a lot of TVs on the market with display port because the people who own the HDMI standard are in that industry.

The worst of it hasn’t happened yet. The point where consumers can no longer afford to consume is coming. The system isn’t self sustainable if they continue to chase profits in the short term regardless of what happens in the long term. They’re creating a system where only they will be consumers and that leads to a devaluation of all the currency they’re hoarding.

Prices can’t continue to go up if people can’t afford things. This price hike is going to have far reaching consequences and increase prices of everything.

The people of Germany were burning German marks in the street. They traded goods for goods when they were available, and burned the money for warmth.

The rich of our current generation seem to think they can golden parachute out of this. They haven’t thought about the long term repercussions of a world power of the US’s magnitude descending to third world country status, but that’s what is coming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

It really didn’t used to be this way. I remember distinctly walking into a metro PCs store in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and being told by the guy there they didn’t care what your name was, you could write down bugs bunny and they’d still take your payment and activate your service. But because of that lots of… Less than reputable people did just that and things kind of ended up how they are now.

I think there was at one point a switch to VOIP because of that change, and after that VOIP providers started tightening things down, so now your best bet is probably to pay someone in crypto to import an already activated phone.

I’m going to point out rule’s 1 and 5 in the sidebar of this community. Have a nice day.

Are you not also making assumptions here?

I’m sure you have some proof of that, however, it’s more than likely subjective given what I said and what I witnessed and you are getting off your original topic.

Edit: You’re misrepresenting what censorship is, and you have still yet to give anyone here a reason to care about this likely contrived exchange. It seems like rage bait to me.

That’s wonderful.

It has nothing at all to do with why you likely got banned because it probably has more to do with the fact that some mod somewhere found you annoying than it does anything else. I’m sure that’s very sad for you, but why should the rest of us care?

That’s probably true. But I also deliberately blocked the vegan community here because I saw several posts where it was essentially trying to cannibalize itself over whether cats could be vegan. I honestly didn’t want any part of that no matter how useful some of the recipes might have been.

Reddit is a cesspool, and yeah, this community is for reddit stuff but at best this post is just trying to start a fight, or receive some validation (which is like … ridiculous because it’s a one off reddit post and we only have their side of the story, and we don’t even know if the accounts they interacted with are real people).

But also impartiality is something not even paid judges master and it’s like half their mandate. Expecting a bunch of random volunteers who aren’t being paid to be impartial is a crapshoot everywhere including here.

No offense meant, but I’ve seen r/vegan do the same shit to people pointing out the health detriments of a badly optimized vegan diet and I have no sympathy for this because you’re still using reddit.

To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to.

This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It’s too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymize your data with such recklessness that it’s basically trivial to unanonymize it.

Use the same network as your parents and you’ll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas.

Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem.

If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use for regular accounts means Facebook doesn’t track you or know who you are? That’s a pipe dream.

It’s the same with other apps too.

Especially Google and their app network.

Understand that it’s not that I don’t think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.