If development continues on this path

If we continue down the path of wasting energy and polluting to produce useless shit humanity is screwed.

Try one of these: https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

Go back to reddit that’s where you belong

You can charge for your software even when the source code is available and you can get away without paying even when the source code is not available.

If you make something just to bring food into the table following market strategies and relying on nasty business models, no offense but allow me to dispute someone claim that your work is some of the most impressive.

Don’t give up and don’t mind the idiots

Go back to reddit i’ve heard it’s an impressive platform

All i said is that a closed source, early access, available only through steam game that is presented as “one of the most impressive games I’ve ever played” is far from being impressive. You sound like a bigger zealot for reply like that honestly.

everything that’s listed on that page you linked sounds great on paper, but in reality, doesn’t always work out the greatest.

You should try them, they all work perfectly and are free to try.

Perhaps that’s the reason why Stardew and other games don’t want to be open source? So people can’t just steal their hard work after years and years, and then go churn another one out.

“It is also one of the best-selling games of all time, selling 30 million by 2024.”

Poor devs, it would really be bad if someone compile his own version of the game instead of pirating binaries.

Lemmy devs should follow suit and close source their platform not to feed AI.

There’s plenty of foss games, idk any about farming

Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I’ve ever played

This is the thread title i’ve no idea about stardew

I’m curious if there is any games that exist that fit that description?

Plenty

https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

closed source, early access, available only through steam. Far from being impressive

Corporations like google and amazon damage the market and the industry more than “piracy” does

and they specifically forbid the use of VPN during the interview.

Don’t trust anyone who does that

I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit’s platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits.

You quit reddit because they didn’t ban subreddits you don’t like?

https://time.com/7015026/meta-facebook-zuckerberg-covid-biden-pressure-censorship/

I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.

It’s not. Instagram is popular the way it is because “It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests” there.

Posts about value are ads. Stop give exposure to this guy or his companies

there’s the red team. Burn through our fossil resources with reckless abandon. War, war, war, and more war.

The blue team is doing the same thing: burning through fossil resources in the name of war. The military complex doesn’t stop or change when blue or red are elected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war

I encourage you to keep studying and researching. Politics isn’t a football match where teams compete against each others and “left” and “right” are two buzzwords.

https://archive.org/details/lawauthorityanar00kropuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

Seem like governments also love traitors, look at amount of deals and collaborations between starlink and the US government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_applications

Beyond being one of the biggest for profits corporations in a rigged as fuck business they also engage in literally criminal activities such as promoting gambling to kids.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation#Anti-competitive_practices

I’ll tell you a secret: you don’t need a proprietary launcher to run software

You don’t seem to have idea of how much a billion is and how much money is valve making. Enjoy your icecream while it’s cold because you can’t afford too much of it.