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#GuessTheGame #809

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Haven't played the game, but the temple and submarine environments shown here are pretty iconic.

Just a few days ago, I wrote a comment about how you would theoretically try and become a significant competitor to Steam, and one of the points I raised was that Steam's storefront and recommendations are very generous (compared to others). It makes a huge difference that even indie games can appear on the front page regularly, both improving user and dev experiences. Players find games that they enjoy, while devs pay a very small amount to get effective, targetted advertisements.

What do you mean still? So far as I can tell, its not even available for pre-order yet. Its purely closed beta for media.

This is whats keeping me from full-committing to Lemmy. I get most of my news from other sources, and I'm not a Linux user or IT specalist, so theres really not much content here for me. The communities on Reddit I was most involved in were mostly for specific games or niche areas within gaming like VR, or for acedemic topics and discussions like history. Here on Lemmy, theres is effectively none of that aside from some history memes largely reposted from Reddit by a few very dedicated users (although thank you to those users). Even really large games like Dota, and CS, both of which lend themselves well to sharing content, discussion, and general lifestyle adoption of the game have nothing here on Lemmy, nonetheless single-player games like Half-Life.

Ahh, War Thunder fan mail.

Maybe an immitation of a military uniform top? Makes you look like someone who worships the military, but not enough to actually join, and who also doesn't really respect the uniform or its implications. Thats cringy to basically anyone who looks at it, whether they like the military or hate it, almost anywhere the the world, but also still benign enough wear in public.

In your Lemmy settings (probably need to use the web UI) there should be an option to select your languages. Lemmy will filter out content not marked as your language. Unfortunately, a lot of content is left without a language specified (AKA "undefined") so unless you want to filter out much of the content you do want, you're stuck manually blocking a lot still.

Honestly, even those are pretty overkill to make a competing storefront. All you'd have to do is to offer lower prices and/or take a smaller percentage while matching at least a fraction of Steam's functionality (unlike Epic) or actively working to screw over customers (also unlike Epic). If a store sold games consistantly 5% cheaper than Steam, even without controller options, good support, a built-in forum, explicit Linux support, ect., I'm confident it would be reasonably successful. Just look at Humble and Fanatical. While they do (mostly) sell Steam keys, their prices are arguably what made them a success, not the features you get after redeaming the Steam keys.

Even beside that, the ideas you provided are all pretty minor. If you're willing to throw more significant amounts of money at the platform, like many before have, you can go a lot further than that even. For example, seeing as Steam's discovery algorithm is one of the bigger benifits Steam provides, you could one-up them by providing off-platform marketing for games launching on your platform. This would be a way to bring devlopers and players alike to use your platform without screwing over either. Similarly, you could take a page out of Epic's book and do giveaways regularly. Alternatively, you could use a less generous system such as "buy anything and get x game free" or "every $10 spent gives you a chance to win x game bundle" to make it more sustainable, and/or allow you to market specific underperforming games. It isn't that hard to come up with ideas that would allow a competitor to do well. You just have to do that rather than putting all your resources into trying to take games away from players, and harvest their data.

I'm using a yellow-orange. I've themed everything to Half-Life's Combine propaganda, so that fits even if I normally wouldn't be a fan of the colour, not to mention that its easier on the eyes at night.

And what for combined battles, or for WW2 tanks?

Some sort of built-in system for checking for reposts. As is, Lemmy's search is a lot more limitted for that sort of thing, so I always feel anxious making a post, worried that I'm just going to repost something recent, and unintentionally spam the community.

I know this will improve if Lemmy grows, but at least personally, this is the main reason I don't spend much time on Lemmy relative to Reddit. I've tried posting some, but I'd need to write a bot to even maintain the base level of activity for the communities I follow on Reddit (IE major game updates, new TV show episodes). Don't get me wrong, I'm working on a web scraper for exactly that, but even then, the discussion is what makes these communities, so Im not expecting much.