AwesomeLowlander

They did. Support was discontinued from the start of 2024. That you’ve been using it up to now without any problems is literally because they didn’t break anything on purpose. As long as none of the software changes it will continue to work.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A

MICROSOFT cut off support for windows 7. Is steam supposed to continue support for the entire OS?

Given how much Bloons sells for (something like 1USD?), I can’t say I’m not getting my money’s worth. The devs do have to get fed somehow.

That’s pretty much the point. The steam deck was a huge success, but the only reason it could exist and be such a success was because they had the freedom to do what they liked and not worry about management with attitudes like yours.

Good thing you weren’t working at steam, huh.

Steam DRM doesn’t have quite the same history of maliciousness towards end users that Denuvo does

By the same logic however, mods would have no power to actually moderate. Their moderation ability is directly proportional to their potential for abuse. And I think we can all agree we’ve long passed the point where communities are able to survive without moderation, at least in their current form (which is what OP is discussing).

If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?

It’s a standard YouTube video, what are you going on about?

nearly impossible to actually find the few good games within the massive crush of shovelware

So exactly like gaming in the 90s and 00s? You can’t have it both ways

It accumulates

You do. But the point stands, on the scale of a govt budget, having a single full time employee (and even that is honestly overkill) is a drop in the ocean.

Apparently not, if you’re still thinking of Fediverse moderation as a single entity.

You do understand that the fediverse is not a single thing? Moderation on the fediverse is a meaningless term because it varies hugely depending which part of the fediverse you are visiting.

How much funding does a single software instance serving 3500 users really require? I could probably run it off my desktop.

Yeah, imagine if steam could implement a setting so that you could only see these games if you enabled said setting. Oh, wait…

Give it time, we’re headed back that way

As far as alpha game-breaking bugs go, this is pretty minor

There’ll be nothing to get adjusted to if they continue to insist on Denuvo

The only people willing to put up with EGS’ crappy performance are (a subset of) windows users