Fantastic if you’re a patient gamer. It’s the only place I get my games from. The only bad thing is the selection of games (lack of AA/AAA games) and a bad client compared to Steam because they’re not a multi-billion dollar company like Valve is. We had to wait 12 years for Skyrim to finally come out for example.
SE has stopped caring about its customers a long time ago. They never bothered to fix their old broken PC ports either like 13, 13-2, and the old 3, 5, and 6 games. FF16 is still exclusive to PS5, 7R Integrade was exclusive to EGS until June 2022, and they really went all-in on Metaverse/NFTs.
IMO, they died when Sakaguchi left in 2003 and hasn’t been the same since. It’s always Ship of Thesus with these once legendary companies.
Valve is in a position where they don’t have to do anything and can still earn several billions per year. $7.6B USD last year, I believe.
Return to red toryism. Specifically fiscal conservatism and progressive social values, which is what currently fractured PC parties are supposed to be. List of some items I had in mind:
Higher progressive taxes on the ultra-wealthy
National pipeline strategy from coast to coast to New Brunswick refinery so Canada can increase its energy independence from the US and other malicious geopolitical partners like Saudi Arabia
Greater focus on nuclear and renewable energy through subsidies and tax credits
Fix health care system by increasing funding to schools, opening up more residency spots, and giving health care staff more bonuses or perks to prevent brain drain
Higher military spending to surveil and protect Arctic waters from Russia, also make it a prestigious employer that people want to work for with greater advancement opportunities and opportunities to retain experienced staff
Temporary shutdown of immigration system except for highly skilled workers in high demand industries
Gun buyback and confiscation programs, specifically in urban centres
More infrastructural projects to better urban transportation systems
Justice system should be less lenient towards repeat and/or high severe crimes - they should be locked up for a long time
Increase spending onto education system to produce more skilled and more productive members of society, perhaps instill an artificial quota on low demand industries on post-secondary schools to prevent young adults from choosing unproductive majors
EDIT: Allotocate more subsidies/tax credits to developer who take on building higher density housing, allow apartment/condo boards to be fascist-like to ensure health living spaces for its residents
National reformation program to round up all the substance abusive homeless people and reform them into productive members for training in landscaping, skilled trades, cooking, warehouses, clerks
Reward First Nations tribes accordingly who have put more emphasis into improving their social issues through more social workers, compliance with the national reformation program, etc.
No chance, doing that would discourage devpubs from distributing on Steam.
Valve did it before with Darwinian: https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203 when they were relatively new to launchers.
This is the devs’ responsibility, not different shops. I can easily play compatible crossplay games easily with my friends as long as the devs develop it from the ground up.
GOG user here too, they can transfer ownership of deceased’s games over to the next of kin if they have the proper legal docs and will. It’s one of the last DRM-free bastions of PC gaming.
Even then, deceased people’s accounts can go to their next of kin. GOG does this with provided legal documentations and will.
Thank you, OP. Only took a couple mins to fill it out and verify my email. Easiest civic work I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing.