It's because of algorithms. Anything well known gets boosted because it thinks people will be interested. Honestly as gamers we should take a leaf out of the FFXIV community book and advertise the games we love more.
Indie games and non-AAA games are still better than games 20 years ago that generally don't pull all that shit. There might be some grim darkness out there, but I'm just gonna chill in the sun, because it's definitely still there.
I've never really understood the need to hold digital sales back to physical goods sales. It's like complaining that Costco is cheaper because it skips the traditional store front.
They explicitly state they're talking about considerations of being a website admin.
For instance your can be an EU Spotify account holder and request your portfolio from Spotify and they have to dig up all your data and give it to you. You can also ask them to forget about you and make them delete all that data. You can make this request to anyone that holds your information without reason.
If you collect information about European citizens, whether as a primary aggregate, or simply to manipulate and present it, you must comply. It is not an option. The other implicit option is don't collect data belonging to European citizens. For a website admin this is done by preventing Europeans from accessing your site.
Osa above says they might be good because it only matters if Europeans know you have their data and you're not obligated to announce it without a GDPR request. Which is hard to do if you block them.
No, the purpose of restricting the site is to ensure you don't collect European citizens data. They don't use any part of the site that collects data, their data isn't in your set.
What you're saying would break GDPR and hide that fact from Europeans.
Just PR, it's still not available in all the countries they said they'd restrict it from. (those that own it can play it though). So in some ways it's like they went through with it and no one cares because Sony said the magic words 'you guys win'.
I guess you lose your sense of superiority if you actually listen to what other people say. Making others do their research for them must be the way they cling to their self-worth.
Unfortunately that's just the way the industry is going. They'd rather just have overreach and excessive power than deal with the back and forth fight of countering hackers and cheats. I understand why they'd go that way, it's disappointing and concerning, but it's becoming more and more common.
You could run such games on a separate machine (provided you had the funds), but that's a big buy in for a single game.
Different people have different tolerances or are ignorant, not stupid. Maybe don't be so condescending to people and you'd get better responses.
We haven't won until the region sales restrictions implementation to avoid legal issues of imposing PSN is rolled back. Fellow divers got refunds, we haven't won until everyone can return to diving.
As far as I'm concerned people are far too eager to call this a win and take Sony at their word without actually caring about the result.
To head off obvious responses Steam doesn't impose restrictions on their own, the publisher is in control on sales and it takes no time at all for Steam to update. So why hasn't Sony done this trivial act already? Because they'll try this again later when they legally can.
Well it was more that they sold the game in countries psn isn't supported in, waited exactly 3 months (a common limit on sales laws) and then tried to screw all those people over.
I mostly agree, it's more a matter of exposure and, as you say market share. It's a weird situation to be in, that in order to really get the most sales on PC you need to be on steam.
Steam's business model is convenience first. If someone wants to do something don't get in their way. That's how they can be a monopoly and no one complains, because there's very few walls or barriers. Every time there have been barriers, steam not accepting games, NSFW games, crypto, AI, they either get out of their way, or take a reasonable philosophical/ethical stance. Even if you disagree with their stance its hard to be angry about it and often their stance changes or gains nuance to it as time goes on.
It's because of algorithms. Anything well known gets boosted because it thinks people will be interested. Honestly as gamers we should take a leaf out of the FFXIV community book and advertise the games we love more.