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  • That all makes sense though. By definition, popular games are liked by many people. Popular games are talked about more. People expect popular games to be listed. Many people will doubt these publications if they fail to list several of the most popular games.

    I’m sure there is some money changing hands too, but that can only do so much (maybe move a game a little higher on these lists).

    Popular and good (for you) are not the same thing. Games can either, both, or neither of those things. It is only when we think about large numbers of people that popular and “good” become correlated.


  • I think Steam already presents a large enough market to be enticing for indie devs.

    A quick check shows that Steam likely has more monthly active users than Xbox, PS5, or Nintendo. I’m sure a large portion of those groups overlap too. So indie devs are likely to develop for PC first.

    While I’m excited for what they just announced, I don’t think it will significantly change these numbers.


  • Yes, you have to trust the company storing the passwords.

    A good company can store passwords in ways that are secure to most hacking attempts. It isn’t impossible to break the encryption typically used, but it is difficult enough that most thieves will not have the resources or time to make use of the data. They want the low effort password databases, not the difficult and expensive ones.








  • Brokkr@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldPasskeys Explained: The End of Passwords
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    Sure, they probably work great when you have your *passkey manager on the device, but that’s not when I need to have backup routes into my accounts. When using a new device, or someone else’s, having even a complicated password that can be typed or copied-pasted has way more functionality.

    As far a I can tell, using passkeys would only risk locking me out of my accounts. Everyone else is already effectively locked out.


  • While the lock-in issue is annoying and a good reason not to adopt these, the device failure issue is a tech killer. Especially when I can use a password manager. This means I can remember two passwords (email and password manager), make them secure, and then always recover all my accounts.

    Passkeys are a technology that were surpassed 10 years before their introduction and I believe the only reason they are being pushed is because security people think they are cool and tech companies would be delighted to lock you into their system.