Because “top 20” are live service games that have been going on for years…
The top, however, remains deeply entrenched. The Top 5 PC games have been unchanged since 2023. In 2025, only Marvel Rivals and Wuthering Waves were among the rare new entrants to break into the Top 20.
If someone buys a hyped up single player game from on of the biggest studios of all time…
Itll most likely still be “outside the top 20” even tho it’s AAA
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It’s not embarrassing to still be using any Meta product?
It’s like being worried because you recognized the guy in front of you at the checkout line at the dildo emporium as your priest…
It would be awkward if he turns around, but he’s got a shopping cart of dildos too, how is he gonna judge?
At the same time, people drastically overestimate how big of a deal it would be…
Someone could always just stop buying games on there.
And if it did “go away” and people lost their games, they think how much they’ve spent on games over decades, and not how much it would cost to replace what they still play.
Out of all the real life horrible shit going on, very few people have the longevity of Valve as a priority.
It’s not 100% safe but at this point it’s more likely to be here in 20 years than the country it’s based in.
But besides all that, I don’t think you know what the word “monopoly” means if you think steam is one.
They’re all gonna start claiming they have “too good to release” versions…
Because everything they release sucks.
But if they never let anyone not financially invested even see the “good one” then no one can say it’s actually shit.
It doesn’t matter if it works, it matters if it raises stock price. So eventually we’ll see them just not release it, it could only hurt the stock price.
Look at OPs profile and you’ll quickly see all the massive issues with their great plan of “4chan with absolutely zero moderation”.
OP’s profile:
Working on Plebbit
For those who don’t know, that was a shitty hard right wing social media that kept talking vaguely about how it was like crypto and torrenting.
For years now people have been spamming it to the threadiverse and trying to trick people into joining.
If you go to this website:
It lists 5chan as inspiration…
And people are upvoting and promoting this entirely unmoderated chan board because two seconds of research is too difficult…
Like, c’mon people, critical thinking is important now more than ever
Quick edit:
And to be clear this is the exact same project OP always spams, they just keep changing the name of it. It used to be accessible over the web tho, which allowed everyone to see the fucking horrendously racist, bigoted, and outright illegal shit they want people to be able to post.
Meh.
It’s a twice a decade racing game…
There doesn’t need to be huge changes, people like the game for what it is, it just needs occasional updates.
If this game out a year after Forza 5, then criticism for lack of changes is valid.
He can’t control our future if we throw him in jail.
And people forget we can just do that, historically it would even go down as a merciful revolution. Just throw all the oligarchs and billionaires in jail, and take all their money and redistribute that.
They’ll say “that’s not legal” but who honestly gives a flying fuck at this point what’s legal? Let em sit in jail and repeat over and over “this isn’t fair” for the rest of their natural lives.
We can just do it shirt brothers, the oligarchs decided theres no more rules, so why do we let rules hold us back?
At this point it’s an inevitability that it’s gonna come to that point, it’s just how much we put up with before it.
I’d settle for the government prosecuting every false copyright claim as perjury
First you said every one…
Now you’re saying just some…
This isnt going to be productive, best of luck with your future endeavers. But I won’t be available to answer any other questions.
Kind of?
Like a thousand years ago in Italy the concept started.
A guy with a bunch of money, would give a guy with no money and a boat the funds to buy cargo and ship it.
If something bad happened the guy with the boat an no money was liable for the loss of cargo, and wouldn’t have the funds to pay, they’d just go bankrupt.
If nothing bad happened, the guy with no money paid back the investor plus profits.
Then it evolved into government enforced monopolies like “East India Trading Co”.
Which are more like modern corps, but less like what you’re talking about but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant and not the earlier Italian corporations?
You say that because you’re not think of all the times corps beat a valid claim…
Meaning suing a corp now opens you up for criminal charges if you don’t win, and less people challenging thru court.
You might be better off asking if something would be a good idea, before thinking of something and immediately recommending it despite not thinking about how it would obviously backfire and end up fucking us over more.
Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute
Bots telling bots that humans aren’t human…
There’s an easy solution to this:
Legislation that requires giant trillion dollar companies actually employ living breathing humans who can perform a task rather than automate it despite that not working and then just not caring.
And people are going to say that’s hard…
But all we need to do is pass a single law that says if AI fucks up, the CEO of the company is personally and financially liable because he’s the one that ultimately entrusted the task to AI.
Do that, and suddenly corps wouldn’t hand everything to AI as intentional incompetence.
If we don’t do it soon, corps will just blame AI for everything and declare no one is ever at fault
making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business.
That’s exactly what they’re doing here tho…
The “core business” is hype, because hype is the only reason to use, invest in, or support current AI.
There’s nothing they can do to raise share price more than buying an existing reputable source to make it a propaganda shill.
The author is still operating under the assumption that AI can be made profitable if only they work a little harder. It’s not gonna happen, it’s a fucking boondoggle who only exists to grift investors. Once you’re roped in, you have a financial incentive to perpetuate the grift.
And now TBPN (whatever that is) has a financial incentive to tell people how great AI is
This is like going to a butcher shop to complain about the environmental sustainability of almond milk…
You can be right, but the people you’re telling aren’t using the product you’re warning them about bud. They can’t not use the product any less because they’re already not using it.
Well…
That is the next game after “Borderlands”…
You…
You think they care?
They want people streaming games to phones/TVs and paying by the hour.
Not subsidizing console sales anymore will make cloud gaming seem more attractive, and that’s where the most money is at
I used to love Borderlands…
Then they locked characters behind expensive DLC. So I started waiting for the “everything” editions, but then it made sense to just wait for big sales…
And eventually not caring about the franchise.
Its like Crusader Kings or Sims. It’s better than annual releases that don’t really change, but the DLC structure turns people away from the entire game. Even if you wait for a sale, all the “new” DLC stays expensive.
So people put off buying anything till they just don’t care.
As the researchers wrote in a summary of their findings, the “most common sycophantic code” they identified was the propensity for chatbots to rephrase and extrapolate “something the user said to validate and affirm them, while telling them they are unique and that their thoughts or actions have grand implications.”
There’s a certain irony in all the alright techbros really just wanting to be told they were “stunning and brave” this whole time.
They gave all the big subs to corporate overloads well over a decade ago.
The general “tech” subs had mods bought off long ago for general shit
$200 to nuke a topic is nothing to these companies, but an insane amount of motivation to unpaid mods.
It doesn’t take long till the motivation from bribes pushes out anyone without that motivation, and that’s not even getting into how small the circle of mods really is due to years of “add backs”.
Like, at this point we should all accept that real life conspiracies don’t have to involve James Bond. It can be a bunch of idiots doing incredibly transparent and ineffective shit.
Fucking hilarious that the “best” chatbot can’t even manage a decent support chatbot…