It’s kind of a shitty thing about modern gaming, is that the game revolves around the community, and if you’re not part of the community, you don’t know WTF is going on, because they never explain anything in the game.

I got pretty sucked into it playing Destiny 1 like 10 years ago but eventually it was too much fucking work and not enough fun.

I hope to never ever see this kind of behavior happen within the Fediverse, because we are supposed to be better than this.

That’s pretty naive, honestly.

Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous.

It’s not. There’s no other way to have a govt “for the people” than to hold an election.

it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.

That may be but it doesn’t make it untrue.

Unfortunately, the people voted for this.

That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.

They wouldn’t lose money for the same reason Steam doesn’t lose money; they sell them at market value. That’s (part of) why they’re so expensive.

I know. And it’s dumb. Which is why I don’t use it. And Mastodon is polluting the Fediverse with this crap.

FYI you don’t have to tag me, I got a notification when you reply to me.

Which quote

The one from Valve in the Polygon article.

it wasn’t wrong based on the information at the time.

It was. There was, at no time, any suggestion by Valve that the release was being delayed further, and especially not at the time the article was published.

The quote that I provided was directly from the Polygon article. Do you mean to suggest it was only clickbait shitfuckery when the article was first posted?

Even then, I would argue that that STILL does not “suggest further delays”.

They didn’t say valve said anything.

Its literally the title of the article…

When someone says 2026, it is a year. There is zero implication of one half or the other.

Yes, that’s exactly my point.

OP opined that the wait might be longer, which isn’t false.

No they didn’t. They said Valve suggested it would be longer, which did not happen.

The first half of this year is still 2026, sure, but 2026 isn’t just the first half of this year. 2026 by itself is a whole year.

…and? You’re reaching here. That is in no way any sort of suggestion.

Do you see what this has to do with the conversation?

No. No one said anything about a “promise”, at any time. Not me, not the author, and not Valve. Only you.

What does that have to do with this conversation?

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They’re going to do what Steam is doing and just open up Xbox branding for licensing on PC hardware, much like they did with XBOX Ally. So there will be something for everyone.

Except people who hate Microsoft, but they were never going to buy it anyway.

They suggested no such thing. “First half of the year” is still part of “this year”…

They literally just referred back to their previous post about the timeline.

We shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans.

This is just malicious clickbait.

Despite that, they say that GitHub didn’t even respond to their counterclaims, and just shut the whole thing down the minute Nintendo asked.

You are a fly on the wall of one of the biggest tech companies in the world. They have no interest in going to court for you just so you can keep your emulator on their site.

hardware has been converted to manufacturing datacenter variants of this hardware.

Some of it has. Not all of it (except for Micron).

nor would it crater consumer hardware demand.

It doesn’t have to. It seems we both agree that server hardware demand clearly impacts consumer supply, and yet for some reason you seem to think this is a one-way street?

It takes time and money to convert manufacturing capacity between consumer hardware to datacenter hardware.

And yet, they did it, very quickly, and will do so again when the market shifts again.

but not for 3rd party app stores.

Yes it is.

The app stores inside Google Play would be 2nd party app stores.

It’s only 2nd party if there’s some sort of transaction involved, which there isn’t AFAIK.

No they were forced by Epic.

They have existed but they’re now available in the Google Play Store.

This was already discussed above, please scroll up.