He can ask the dimwit insurrectionists in prison if Trump is a man of his word. Actually maybe they can’t.

Freedom or something.

Those of us who collect classic game consoles and computers (here’s looking at you, AI reporter Benj Edwards) know the difficulty of keeping all that hardware not just working but instantly accessible with a simple press of a power button.

Meh, the answer is money. With money it’s easy.

Youre forgetting they get to decide what the excel looks like. Even if it costs them 5$ per person to get 1$ from them, all they need to show is the excel with employee costs going down to call it profit. The expenses paid out to friends and politicians “need to be spent anyway” so it’s not reallt “a loss”.

You should see the P&L of these companies and how they twist themselves into knots making the line go up

Actually it’s CEO guy thinking of spending 10$ on his politician buddy to strip you of 1$

If only it was because he’s old and senile. He knows now is the time to do whatever he can for his CEO buddies.

We knew who delisted the game, because steam doesn’t just do that.

“one fraudulent company from India”. Which part of this being Amazon’s walk out technology makes it not big tech, or a “weak ai story”?

AI is turning out to be a lot less promising than we thought, unless new breakthroughs are made the models are plateauing or even getting worse, at least relative to the amount of energy they consume… And companies like openai are in rush to sell you the idea for trillions of dollars before everyone realises the limits. Same as amazon trying to sell us Ai powered shopping.

So there was no speculation, you just hoped these articles straight up lied.

Any articles for this speculation or uncertainty? Because that’s also something Valve would be quick to shut down and point to Sony, for legal reasons.

Or is this all reddit threads from people who don’t understand how steam works?

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Steam doesn’t push changelists from developer accounts, and don’t push it themselves without making a major announcement. This is why all the reporting on this has been clear AH/Sony delisted it. There are countless articles confirming this days ago.

Article from 2 days ago

Sony made the strange decision to delist Helldivers 2 from over 150 different countries in which the PlayStation Network isn’t supported, though we’re still not quite sure for what reason.

There’s been confirmation for 7 days.

This is steamdb change list for HD2. This is a developer update.

The “speculation” was just clickbait. There are multiple articles confirming it over the last week.

There was no confusion around who delisted it

And like, why are people surprised it’s only getting worse? Of course it is, we knew long ago the removal of 3rd party app was the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.

Unless there’s evidence that AH got a special deal, there’s no chance they didn’t know this was an eventual requirement.

I’ve been an engineer in the AA/AAA games industry for almost 2 decades, my job often involves assessing the technical feasibility of games that big publishers like Sony want to invest in/ acquire.

Someone somewhere at AW agreed to shove PSN sign-in requirements in the deal, hoping it would blow over like many games before. (e.g rocket league / epic account debacle). Now the devs are sorry it’s not working out and say “their hands are tied”, but they must have known this was coming. There are way too many legal ramifications for this to be a random power-move by Sony.

Edit: sony apparently lifted the requirement today

What does it matter if the game “launches successfully” if it doesn’t sustain itself? They knew theyd likely lose their players but they were hoping theyd be special - this game is not successful in the end.

Your entire argument boils down to: they wouldn’t have been able to cheat us into thinking this was a good game without sony. If theyre going to take my money and kill the game anyway, it would have been better to not make it at all. That’s what thousands of indie devs have to contend with every day.

So many threads about Hello Games (No Man’s Sky) and other Sony backed titles being “victims”. They knew what they were doing,

I feel like if this was my town idiots would have done it long ago by all means necessary

Tying healthcare to employment is stupid and we see it in the US. It sounds good on paper to cheap bigots who think people are freeloading.