I think the valve has the large touch pads and TMR joysticks, which both add some (if not THAT much) cost.

I mean, i have a lot of notifcations on my phone…

Mainly Discord, Whatsapp, and text messages.

Just about everything else gets either silenced, or turned off.

fair enough, i could search for them… just feels a lot more akward then most other ways, when they are integrated into the keyboard or chat. even here on Lemmy, there is an emoji button!

On steam, not matrix.

I just don’t see any emojis or gifs via steam chat, other than their own ones you need to buy from their store.

i really hate the lack of emotes, limited emojis, and things like posting links and photos doesn’t work for us nearly as well as discord, with the links often not loading, or the images coming in rotated.

it works, but it feels like an afterthought, which i guess it is.

How do you compare that to Discord? my friendgroup moved to Steam Chat, and thats… not great.

I was leaning more towards Stoat

wish it was that easy,

My closests friendgroup dispersed around the province, one in kelowna, one in enderby, and im out on the Coast now. Discord (and now steam chat) kept us close

imagine if each time, to kill the boss, you had to pay $1.

You pay $1, watch your avatar hit the boss once, and it immediatly explodes into a shower of common, uncommon, and mayber a rare… Drat, no epics.

Better throw another $1 in… and another $1.

$25 in, you get a rare! great, you can throw that on the AH for $20 worth of currency… so you better ‘reinvest’…

I LOVED OW1, played it endlessly, went to live OWL, bought merch.

The day OW2 came out is the last day I played a blizz game. Woulda paid for it, no interest in a GAS game.

For Alan Wake 2, yea

Epic entierly funded the game, and as far as I know, that includes it being solely on EGS

https://www.ign.com/articles/alan-wake-2-developer-defends-deal-with-excellent-partner-epic-games-despite-the-fact-its-still-missing-from-rival-storefront-steam

Yea, definitely felt dirty buying from there, but it’s the only store the game will ever be available from, and Remedy makes fine games

Bought my first game on epic this year: Alan Wake 2.

has yours started pushing ads? i didnt have them for years, and now every 5th article is an ad.

Dude, you already came to the defense of CSAM. Stop digging.

I still love my logitech ergonomic work mouse and keyboard… but dont install anything but the auto-install drivers.

I would lo e return to monkey Island. Played that when I was like 12!

And have undeniably driven VR forward.

You can hate em for keeping it closed/walled Garden, but I don’t think you would have a device like the Q3 without em

I own SOOO many games on epic…

Mainly because they give them for free, and i hope it helps the devs get some extra cash.

Havent bought anything yet.

Thats me, backed it when it came out, play it a bit every couple years.

No? I’m going to stick with the actual definitions you ignored, the same ones you stopped responding to while downvoting like my toddler.

The best you’ve managed so far is inventing your own definition where a company only counts as a monopoly if it behaves badly and takes “monopolistic actions,” which is a neat little tautology. And you still haven’t shown a single definition that includes any of that.

In case you managed to not see, or forget, where i previously brought this up, here’s a link so you can refresh yourself: https://lemmy.ca/post/55030092/20023839

Outsized market power, what left out are the actions taken to make such an outsized market power. Monopolies are not a passive that form all by themselves. They are created through expansion acquisition, and aggressive crushing of competition. Disney and Nintendo do these actions. Valve does basically… Nothing.

I agree valve hasn’t done anything, but that isnt part of any definition of monopoly i’ve been able to discover, except for someone arguing in bad faith on the internet.